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Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary [Kindle Edition]

Dan Hill

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We live in an age of sticky problems, whether it’s climate change or the decline of the welfare state. With conventional solutions failing, a new culture of decision-making is called for. Strategic design is about applying the principles of traditional design to "big picture" systemic challenges such as healthcare, education and the environment. It redefines how problems are approached and aims to deliver more resilient solutions. In this short book, Dan Hill outlines a new vocabulary of design, one that needs to be smuggled into the upper echelons of power. He asserts that, increasingly, effective design means engaging with the messy politics – the “dark matter” – taking place above the designer’s head. And that may mean redesigning the organisation that hires you.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 292 KB
  • Print Length: 91 pages
  • Publisher: Strelka Press; 1 edition (22 May 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0085KEVO8
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #163,502 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Paradigm shifting 9 Mar 2013
By Smrda Smrdic - Published on Amazon.com
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This is brilliant, but difficult to understand. Actually, this book and its contents force you to feel rather than understand. Other authors, pioneers in this (hopefully emerging) new way of thinking and behaving are Ivan Illich, Thomas Friedman, Mihai Nadin, etc. Deal with complexity or complexity will deal with you.
5.0 out of 5 stars Short, sharp and very challenging 4 Mar 2013
By Andrew Wight - Published on Amazon.com
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This is one of those special few essays that actually changes the way you think about design. You'll feel uncomfortable, you'll highlight much of it and you'll still be thinking about it long after you've put it down.
5.0 out of 5 stars Provocative and Accessible 17 Nov 2012
By Brad Crane - Published on Amazon.com
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Here Dan Hill proposes a rethink of the strategy design and designers use in effecting change at all scales. He is particularly interested in shaping policy and complex systems. Luckily, the ideas in Dark Matter serve as a nice call to designers' posture in general. I found it to be eminently readable and highly enjoyable. Get the sample, realize you are highlighting half of the passages and buy the book.
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