Böcker av Kees Dorst

How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems.

Explores what it takes to become an expert designer. This work examines the perception of expertise in design and asks what knowledge, skills, attributes and experiences are necessary in order to design well. It is suitable for students, teachers, practitioners and researchers in architecture and design.

This book introduces practices that are now partof what people see as '21st Century Skills'. Theenjoyable essays in this book provide a panoramicview over the subject of design. The essaysare written to encourage designers and studentsof design to reflect upon their field. Fundamentalquestions are raised about the nature of design,about designers themselves, and about the role ofdesign within the broader contexts of business andsociety.And design, these days, is not just for designers- many different fields are learning from design tobuild creative practices, and this book seeks tohelp to open up design practices for general use.The book is for designers (to help them reflect ontheir practices, and develop them further) and forstudents of design across all designing disciplines.

Our societies are becoming more complex, dynamic, and networked every day. Public organizations and companies alike are learning the hard way that the societal challenges before us cannot be resolved as they were in the past. We need new approaches to these problems.