Designing Social Innovation for Sustainable Livelihoods

This volume discusses how design broadly understood as design of business, policy, product, system, etc. can produce socially responsible innovations with livelihoods consequences. Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) is a robust framework for analysing and measuring social impact for excluded populations and groups. This is illustrated with case studies from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal by discussing how initiatives concerned with design in the broad sense have the potential to create sustainable livelihoods. This volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in Sustainable Development and Design.

About the Author

Dr. Gavin Melles is Professor (Adjunct) of Sustainability and Social Innovation at Swinburne University’s Design School. He is currently (2021-2022) Senior Fellow in Sustainability in the Technical Design Dept. of Technical University Dresden. He is a research affiliate at the Centre for Design Innovations, the Manufacturing Futures Research Institute, and the Collaborative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living (2014-2019). His research and teaching interests include design education, sustainability, social innovation and related issues. He has held numerous international fellowships, most recently at Edinburgh University (2016), IIT Madras (2019) and Technical University of Dresden (2021).