How do you work creatively on collaborative system change? And how can you share, deepen and scale up the resulting knowledge? In ESCall, ESC & Practice, designers and creative agencies from the Expertise Network Systemic Co-design (ESC) present their knowledge products: map sets, games and prototypes that have emerged in engaging with social issues in practice.
This (Dutch) book is the result of the ESCall, a call to ESC’s creative partners to reflect on an existing knowledge product from their practice that is worth making explicit and is promising to develop further. The partners who participated in the ESCall support public and private organizations with creative, strategic and co-design advice and trajectories. They were asked to design their knowledge products in such a way that they could be applied outside their original context, thus contributing to a broader Systemic Co-Design (SCD) repertoire.
The publication features practice stories, methods, and reflections. Each chapter offers a glimpse into how creative professionals relate to issues involved in collaborations around social issues such as justice, polarization, or reciprocity.
ESCall, ESC & Practice is the first of a three-part series on Systemic Co-Design approaches, focusing successively on practice, research, and education. A must-read for designers, researchers, policy makers, teachers and change agents looking for useful tools to work with complex social issues.
You can download the Dutch version of this book here. If you prefer a printed version you can contact frank.evers@inholland.nl.