Recommended Resources on Designing for Policy
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3 min readMar 15, 2023
Members of the Designing Policy Network mentioned the following resources while recording the podcast miniseries on design and policy creation and implementation hosted by Design in Transition/Diseño en Transición. This list is not comprehensive and only aims to facilitate listeners’ identification of the recommendations mentioned in the podcast episodes.
[There is no particular order to the way resources are listed].
BOOKS:
- Radical Help, How we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare, by Hillary Cottam
- Designing With and Within Public Organizations, Building Bridges between Public Sector Innovators and Designers, by André Schaminée
- A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide, by Cyd Harrell
- Mismatch; How Inclusion Shapes Design, by Kat Holmes
- Design as Democratic Inquiry, Putting Experimental Civics into Practice, by Carl DiSalvo
- Design for Policy, Christian Bason
- Leading Public Design, Discovering Human-centred Governance, by Christian Bason
- Leading Public Sector Innovation, Co-Creating for a Better Society, by Christian Bason
- Nudge, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
- We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems, by Mitchell Weiss
- Design for Social Innovation Case Studies from Around the World, edited by Mariana Amatullo, Bryan Boyer, Jennifer May, Andrew Shea
- Transforming Public Services by Design Re-Orienting Policies, Organizations and Services around People, by Sabine Junginger
- Economies of Design, by Guy Julier
- Public and Collaborative. Exploring the intersection of design, social innovation and public policy, by the DESIS Network
- Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kilmmerer
En español [in Spanish]:
- Modelo para el análisis y diseño de políticas públicas (MADPP), Santiago Leyva y Andrés Olaya, editories académicos
AUDIOVISUAL
En español [in Spanish]:
- Podcast Diseño y Diáspora, categoría especial en diseño y gobierno
- Video Conversatorio: Design thinking y políticas públicas. Universidad del Rosario — Colombia
- Video Conversatorio 3: Capacidades de diseño para los procesos de políticas públicas. Universidad del Rosario — Colombia
Biligüe español-inglés [bilingual English-Spanish]:
MISCELLANEOUS: PUBLICATIONS, JOURNALS AND PAPERS
- Policy Design and Practice [journal]
- Observatory of Public Sector Innovation from the OECD
- Publications from UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
- Projects from The Lab at DC
- Publication in Spanish on Design and Innovation Labs, Diseño y Laboratorios de Innovación
- Projects from the EU Policy Lab
- DGOV — Digital Government: Research and Practice, an ACM Journal
- Villa Alvarez, D.P., Auricchio, V. & Mortati, M. Mapping design activities and methods of public sector innovation units through the policy cycle model. Policy Sci 55, 89–136 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-022-09448-4
- Villa Alvarez, D.P., Auricchio, V., and Mortati, M. (2022) A case of design-enabled public policy formulation process, in Lockton, D., Lloyd, P., Lenzi, S. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June — 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.448
- Experiencia de Construcción Colectiva: Documento CONPES 4023 “Política para la reactivación, la repotenciación y el crecimiento sostenible e incluyente: Nuevo compromiso por el futuro de Colombia” Experiencia Mesas con Actores
EVENTS & CONFERENCES:
NETWORKS:
- Designing Policy Network
- Design and Policy Network, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
- Design for Policy and Governance Special Interest Group (PoGoSIG)
