{"product_id":"9781032250014","title":"The Corruption of Co-Design : Political and Social Conflicts in Participatory Design Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003eDesigners are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world. Similarly, co-design tends to be described as a democratic mode of creativity that is somehow beyond reproach. But is change a virtue in itself, and do participatory practices always produce socially beneficial outcomes?Such questions are becoming more pressing as co-design has emerged as a dominant practice in planning and urban design, while also informing corporate management and public administration. In this book, Otto von Busch and Karl Palm�s suggest that designers tend to overemphasize the place of ideals in design, leaving them ill-equipped to deal with a social world of power-wielding and zero-sum games. Seeking to reorient the concerns of the Scandinavian tradition of participatory design, they suggest that co-design processes are rife with betrayals, decay, and corruption, and that designerly empathy has morphed into a new form of cunning statecraft.   In putting forward Realdesign as an alternative conception of design practice, von Busch and Palm�s ask: What hard lessons about the social must today's designers learn from realists like Machiavelli?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45459581567197,"sku":"9781032250014","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781032250014.jpg?v=1719993976","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781032250014","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}