Expand, Christian Bason
Expand, Christian Bason
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Stretching the Future By Design

Author: Christian Bason, Jens Martin Skibsted

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 05/31/2022


Synopsis

With Expand: Stretching the Future By Design, authors Jens Martin Skibsted, a multiple-award-winning designer, entrepreneur, and design philosopher, and Christian Bason, political scientist and CEO of the Danish Design Centre, take listeners beyond "design thinking" to challenge current habits and carve out new space for more sustainable innovation.

From transforming the ways we do business and reimagining health care, to creating planet-restoring housing and humanizing our digital lives in an age of AI, Expand explores how expansive thinking across six key areas—time, proximity, value, life, dimensions, and sectors—can provide radical, useful solutions to a whole host of current problems around the globe.

With powerful real-world examples, the book challenges our freewheeling belief in technological determinism and its insensitivity toward ethics, humanity, and the environment.

Expand is the first book to not just critique design thinking, but welcome it as a starting point for an ambitious, wide-ranging tale of how to expand and think beyond it.

The best way to predict the future is to design it. Expand is the book that shows us how.

Reviews

Goodreads review by N.N.

Presented with a very understandable goal, this is a strong work. The introduction makes a ton of sense and can be embraced by many. There is invariably a strong Dane-centric approach which is not surprising. Wordy at times, the book still conveys a message that resonates. This book is not without so......more

Goodreads review by Ann

A fascinating book that stretches your critical thinking muscles in unexpected ways. Our ability to think BIG and "long-term" has been severely impacted with the rise in social media, instant online shopping and other modern conveniences that promote instant gratification and immediate results. This......more

Not a fully formed framework, but an organized retrospective on the authors’ experience in thinking outside the box. Humanity-centered design could very well become a household name for sustainable design and should be considered by all of us in our daily lives, at home and at work. The use cases pr......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

An amazing take on the future of design and business. Should be part of the curriculum at any design or business college.......more