Abstract

This paper will examine the role of the social in design practice. In aid of understanding and enacting that role, it will examine the kinds of sociology that could be involved in design practice and education. Topics considered include the fundamentally social and cultural nature of design, and the of design to the sociologies of work, science and technology, organisations, education, and culture. INTRODUCTION AND DISCLAIMERS THE ORIGINS of this paper may be found for the most part within my years of teaching design students as a sociologist within design programs, initially architecture and later industrial design.

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