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As we become familiar with the 21st century we can see that what we are designing is changing, new technologies support the creation of new forms of product and service, and new pressures on business and society demand the design of solutions to increasingly complex problems, sometimes local, often global in nature. Customers, users and stakeholders are no longer passive recipients of design, expectations are higher, and increased participation is often essential. This book explores these issues through the work of 21 research teams. Over a twelve-month period each of these groups held a series of workshops and events to examine different facets of future design activity as part of the UK's research council supported Designing for the 21st Century Research Initiative. Each of these 21 contributions describes the context of enquiry, the journey taken by the research team and key insights generated through discourse. Editor and Initiative Director, Tom Inns, provides an introductory chapter that suggests ways that the reader might navigate these different viewpoints.

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Professor Tom Inns is Director of the AHRC/EPSRC Designing for the 21st Century Research Initiative. He is Chair of Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. He was formerly Director of the Design Research Centre, Brunel University, UK. Tom Inns, James Moultrie, Finbarr Livesey, Alex Williams, Rachel Cooper, Martyn Evans, Qian Sun, Lucy Kimbell, Sandy Black, Claudia Eckert, Philip Delamore, Frances Geesin, Steven Harkin, Penelope Watkins, Fatemeh Eskandarypur, Katerina Alexiou, Jeffrey Johnson, Theodore Zamenopoulos, John Wood, Joslin McKinney, Alice Bayliss, Sita Popat, Mick Wallis, Ann Light, Richard Coyne, James Stewart, Mark Wright, Henrik Ekeus, Robin Williams, Penny Travlou, Chris Rust, Alison McKay, Mark Bylthe, Peter Wright, Jeff Baggot, Alan Dix, Steve Gill, Devina Ramduny-Ellis, Jo Hare, Raymond Lucas, Gordon Mair, Ombretta Romice, Jeremy Myerson, Jo-Anne Bichard, Andree Woodcock, Peter Kraftl, John Horton, Peter Adey, Matthew Kinross, Michelle Newman, Olga den Besten, Adam Thorpe, Lorraine Gamman, Paul Ekblom, Shane Johnson, Aiden Sidebottom, Helen Kennedy, Siobhan Thomas, Simon Evans, Andy Dearden, Ann Light, Wendy Olphert, Leonie Ramondt, Steve Walker, Ian Parmee, Azahar Machwe, Damien Williams, Jan Noyes

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