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From a design perspective, our society is a result of the incremental development of numerous societal systems into a complex web over thousands of years. Societal and human demands are met by our efforts to develop new knowledge and technologies, and deploy these in products and systems. Our focus here is on this transition into products and systems via more or less industrialized design processes. In exploring this we take an ‘onion peeling’ approach to gradually dig down from the fundamental nature of developing societal systems to our final focus on conceptualization and design. We explore how the creation of influential, sustainable, and valuable products requires the designer to empathically and technically understand the wider societal context and consequences of their actions. Thus, we close this chapter by outlining the designer’s role and challenges in this context, mirrored by what we see as the role of this book.
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Andreasen, M.M., Hansen, C.T., Cash, P. (2015). Change, Development, and Conceptualization: Setting the Scene. In: Conceptual Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19839-2_2
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