ZYMO. SSE - School for Social Entrepreneurs. The Hubshop. The Hubshop. Enabling Social Innovation through space design | The Hubble. 19th January 2011 Social innovation is by its very definition about people. So it stands to reason that any space wishing to encourage social innovation would have people at the heart of its design. Sadly, this is rarely the case. Most space design still relies on the inspiration of one or more design ‘experts’, combined with the inputs of a client represented by one or two people. The inclusive design approach embraces the social, challenging this ‘top down’ thinking and replacing it with a multi-stakeholder, non-linear, interactive ‘action based’ co-design process. Using an inclusive design approach to foster social innovation can produce impressive results, but it is not without its challenges. Mapping and developing effective tools to manage and guide this process will be key to embedding it in the mainstream so that eventually the inclusion of the end user in overall design process becomes the default position.
The key to developing effective social innovation is in its title.