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Navigating Societal Change Through Design by Sara Gry Striegler
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9781447375555
Published:
11 Sep 2025
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
208 pages
Dimensions:
216x140mm
Weight:
0.000kgs
Author:
The social and environmental challenges we face today are complex and interdependent. Leaders and experts worldwide acknowledge that we cannot address them in isolation and that to keep doing so is to intensify the problem. This book connects the dots between a group of diverse, but overlapping, professional domains: design, mission-oriented innovation, foresight and futures design, system innovation and leadership. The authors mix methodology and theory with real-life case studies and compelling visual models to aid readers in navigating a new story, balancing tensions in time scale and mindset, learning through experiments and working collaboratively.
The social and environmental challenges we face today are complex and interdependent. Leaders and experts worldwide acknowledge that we cannot address them in isolation and that to keep doing so is to intensify the problem.
This book connects the dots between a group of diverse, but overlapping, professional domains: design, mission-oriented innovation, foresight and futures design, system innovation and leadership. The authors mix methodology and theory with real-life case studies and compelling visual models to aid readers in navigating a new story, balancing tensions in time scale and mindset, learning through experiments and working collaboratively.
Aimed at policy makers, practitioners and educators, this book encourages a new and heightened awareness of systemic change that can lead to societal transformation in support of a sustainable future.
About the Author: Sara Gry Striegler is CEO for Nordic Health Lab, founder of Kindred Lab for Transitions and Chair of the Social Innovation Academy. Julie Hjort is COO at the Danish Design Center and Chair of the Maker Foundation. Sara Gry Striegler is CEO for Nordic Health Lab and leads a matchmaking organisation cross-cutting and bridging the public healthcare system and private companies to co-create sustainable solutions. She is founder of Kindred Lab for Transitions and previously Director for Societal Transitions at Danish Design Center, pioneering the work with futures design and mission-oriented innovation. Over the past 15 years, Sara has worked to address complex societal challenges and drive change and innovation within the major agendas of health, welfare, youth mental health and ageing. She is internationally recognised and part of the Top 50 WEF & Apolitical list Most Influential People Revolutionising Governance in the Futures Thinking category (2020). She is an experienced speaker and author of a chapter in the book Leadership of Public Innovation (2022, published in Danish) and Strategic innovation in Healthcare (2020, published in Danish), as well as a chapter on mission-oriented innovation in Sigge Winther Nielsen's anthology on wicked problems (2023). Sara is Chair at The Social Innovation Academy and former external lecturer at the Technical University of Denmark. Julie Hjort is the COO and Director of Green Transition at the Danish Design Center and spearheads the Center's mission to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. She has been a driving force in developing a design-based approach to mission-oriented innovation that she has applied both at the DDC and in external partnerships to tackle sustainability challenges. For over a decade, Julie has worked with design, innovation, leadership and transformation in interdisciplinary and public/private partnerships. Julie is Chair of Maker, an association for physical entrepreneurship that runs an urban prototyping lab in Copenhagen. She is a seasoned speaker on the topic of circular transformation and mission-oriented innovation. Julie was profiled as a prominent circular designer by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (fall 2023). Julie holds an MA in Contemporary Culture and Dissemination from the University of Copenhagen.
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