Design enabled innovation in urban environments

Abstract

The dynamics of change in urban systems are observed interrogating how the interplay between design and the urban dimension can contribute to sparking or fastening the various pathways of innovation. Embedment is a key concept to understand those processes, which unfold mainly as co-evolution processes. The act of embedding represents a design endeavour complementing and empowering the efforts on the innovation axes of meaning and function (see the 3D model), which generates value by infrastructuring practices (design-enabled resource aggregation) targeting critical challenges and problems of the contemporary (urban) world.