How design supports communities to thrive during turbulent times

Desiging Modern Japan

Designing Modern Japan, an extensively researched peer-reviewed monograph, weaves together the personal stories of people who shaped and shape Japan’s design industries with social history, economic conditions and geopolitics. Key to the account is how design has been a strategy to help communities thrive during turbulent times, and to make life better along the way. From changes in technical education to the embrace of information and computing technology (ICT), the relationship between industrial policy, the integration of emergent technologies into design and manufacturing systems and how designers responded to the potential disruption to established professional practices, roles and relationships brought by this adoption is a key thread throughout the book.