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Design Ecologies Exercise: The Innovation Landscape Matrix (2024)
Book Chapter
Dewberry, E., Boehnert, J., & Sinclair, M. (2024). Design Ecologies Exercise: The Innovation Landscape Matrix. In R. B. Egenhoefer (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design (618-623). (Second Edition). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781

This chapter on sustainable design pedagogy shares the Innovation Landscape Matrix (ILM) as a tool for understanding design ecologies and making visible the systemic interactions that connect across multiple scales. Students use contextualizing quest... Read More about Design Ecologies Exercise: The Innovation Landscape Matrix.

What will designers do when everyone can be a designer? (2016)
Book Chapter
Sinclair, M. (2016). What will designers do when everyone can be a designer?. In I. Kuksa, & T. Fisher (Eds.), Design for Personalisation (91-112). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315576633-6

In this chapter, the author writes from the position that there is no fundamental difference between the design practised by professionals and that undertaken by amateurs. Much of the literature dealing with personalisation and the involvement of the... Read More about What will designers do when everyone can be a designer?.