Design and the Social Sector: An Annotated Bibliography

This bibiography was initiatied by Courtney Drake in 2010, a graduate student at the Yale University School of Management, to survey the literature of social design — the spectrum from design process and thinking to the zones of social innovation. It is the beginning of a larger project by Winterhouse Institute, working with the participants of the Winterhouse Design and Social Change Symposia, to build a bibliography around the practice of social design. The work here was continued by Deirdre Cerminaro, also at Yale School of Management, in 2012. Significant additions by Cerminaro will be added to this post in the coming days.

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Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Program Description

This symposium, sponsored by the Winterhouse Institute, was held October 17-19 2010 in Falls Village, Connecticut. This was the initial information shared with participants.

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Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Participants

The Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, was held August 14-16, 2011 in Falls Village, Connecticut.

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Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Program Description

Winterhouse Institute hosted a symposium at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, August 14-16, 2011. This symposium was an invitation-only gathering of thirty educators and interested parties to explore the practice of social design in design education. This summarizes the original program description.

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Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Final Report

The final report from a symposium held in Connecticut, August 2011, where 28 participants from a variety of design and education programs discussed the challenges and objectives of social change initiatives within their schools, universities, museums and programs.

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Design Matters Wins People's Choice Design Award

The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum announced the People's Choice Design Award on Thursday, October 20, 2011 at its annual gala in New York City — and Design Observer's own Debbie Millman, the creator of the popular Design Matters series of podcast interviews, was the surprise winner.

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National Design Award Trophy

On October 20, 2011, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum unveiled a new trophy for the National Design Awards. Originally designed in silicon carbide by Winterhouse in 2000, the trophy was launched as a part of an "asterisk" design exploratory. In 2011, Corning Museum's GlassLab undertook a new interpretation of the "asterisk" trophy in glass.

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