Sammanfattning

Despite progress in recent decades, many crucial challenges to the eradication of extreme poverty remain intractable. Development interventions often fail to deliver sustained, transformational outcomes to households and communities. The field of design has demonstrated its capacity to deliver designed artifacts that enhance the livelihoods and well-being of people living in resource poor communities, but it remains unclear how its tools can contribute to interventions seeking multidimensional and transformational development outcomes. We present insights from two case studies, conducted in Kenya and Uganda, where a service design approach was applied to the design of two development interventions: a clean cookstove and fuel system, and an innovative insurance product to help farmers cope with climate variability. In both cases, experience mapping, archetype construction, and prototyping served to reveal individual needs, capacities, and values, and enabled the translation of this information into design features for the interventions. Using Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach as an ex post analytical frame, we show how these devices could guide designers seeking to deliver transformational development outcomes when co-designing services that aim for environmental sustainability and social well-being among low-income communities.

Nyckelord

Human development; Archetypes; Prototyping; Capability approach; Service design; Design devices

Publicerad i

She Ji: the Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation
2022, Volym: 8, nummer: 2, sidor: 217-243

SLU författare

• Ran, Ylva

  • Institutionen för energi och teknik, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen

SDG1 Fattigdom omfattar fler dimensioner än den ekonomiska. Fattigdom innebär bl.a. även brist på frihet, makt, inflytande, hälsa, utbildning och fysisk säkerhet.


UKÄ forskningsämne

Arbetsmiljö
Kulturgeografi


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2022.06.001

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/118334