摘要 : Since the 2008 financial crisis, it has become increasingly common to find people trained in product, user experience, or service design involved in designing systems and configurations to achieve social or policy goals in the Glo... 展开 Since the 2008 financial crisis, it has become increasingly common to find people trained in product, user experience, or service design involved in designing systems and configurations to achieve social or policy goals in the Global North.~1 This expansion of design practices has been accompanied by growing awareness of the challenges resulting from designers tackling social issues, or from design methods being used to address policy challenges.~2 Such designing aims to effect social changes, but few, if any, of these professionals explicitly claim to engage with inequalities. Such a claim would be a political one. It would recognize design as a bona fide conduit for confronting, exposing, and ameliorating inequalities, as well as the structural and ideological causes of these inequalities. If there is a version of social design that does this, we take this to overlap with design activism and the decolonizing design agenda, whose quests for political agency are clearer.~3 However, at the same time we recognize that practitioners within social design have a sense of agency. Social design provides a space to engage their core ethical values.~4 The themes that they address—such as homelessness, healthcare, education, or unemployment—involve tackling symptoms of inequalities, if not their causes. 收起