The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability.In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance alife project. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; sometimes they converge on common goals and realize larger transformations. As Ezio Manzini describes in this book, we are witnessing a wave of social innovations as these changes unfold--an expansive open co-design process in which new solutions are suggested and new meanings are created.

Manzini distinguishes betweendiffuse design(performed by everybody) andexpert design(performed by those who have been trained as designers) and describes how they interact. He maps what design experts can do to trigger and support meaningful social changes, focusing on emerging forms of collaboration. These range from community-supported agriculture in China to digital platforms for medical care in Canada; from interactive storytelling in India to collaborative housing in Milan. These cases illustrate how expert designers can support these collaborations--making their existence more probable, their practice easier, their diffusion and their convergence in larger projects more effective. Manzini draws the first comprehensive picture of design for social innovation: the most dynamic field of action for both expert and nonexpert designers in the coming decades.

设计的作用，包括专家和非专家，在正在进行的社会创新浪潮中走向可持续性。在一个不断变化的世界里，每个人都在设计：每个人和每个集体主体，从企业到机构，从社区到城市和地区，都必须定义和加强生命项目。有时，这些项目会产生前所未有的解决方案；有时，它们会汇聚到共同的目标上，实现更大的转变。正如Ezio Manzini在本书中所描述的那样，随着这些变化的展开，我们正在见证一波社会创新--一个广泛的开放的共同设计过程，在这个过程中，新的解决方案被提出，新的意义被创造。

Manzini区分了模糊设计（由每个人执行）和专家设计（由那些被训练成设计师的人执行），并描述了它们之间的互动。他描绘了设计专家在引发和支持有意义的社会变革方面所能做的事情，重点是新兴的合作形式。这包括从中国的社区支持的农业到加拿大的医疗数字平台；从印度的互动故事到米兰的合作住房。这些案例说明了专家设计师是如何支持这些合作的--使它们的存在更有可能，它们的实践更容易，它们的传播和它们在更大项目中的融合更有效。Manzini为社会创新设计绘制了第一幅全面的图画：在未来的几十年里，专家和非专家设计师都是最有活力的行动领域。