Category Archives: sustainability and social innovation

Politiken des Alltags

Posted on April 20, 2019 by designabilities

Buchbesprechung von Tom Bieling Demokratie und Design bilden ein schwer zu trennendes Beziehungskonstrukt. So wie sich Design im Gebrauch verwirklicht, ist auch eine demokratische Gesellschaft ohne Öffentlichkeit kaum denkbar. Und beides gilt erst recht, zieht man demokratisch bedingte und bedingende … Continue reading →

Posted in activism, design research, Literature, Politik, Protest, social design, sustainability and social innovation | Tagged Barbara Hoidn, book, buch, collaborative consumption, democracy, Demokratie, design research, Designforschung, ezio manzini, Parizipation, Politcs, Politics of the Everyday, politik, Politken, Postkapitalismus, review, rezension, Sharing, SLOC, social innovation, tom bieling | Leave a comment

Building Gravity: On Gravity in Architecture, Urban Development and Utopia

Posted on January 9, 2017 by designabilities

PROTOCOL Magazine’s recent issue (No. 8) showcases a variety of original works brought together under the theme of “the ground”. In their contribution “Building Gravity” Fernando Luiz Lara* (Austin University of Texas) and Tom Bieling** discuss the concept of “gravity” not exclusively related to the … Continue reading →

Posted in activism, architecture, art, design research, philosophie, Protest, social design, sustainability and social innovation | Tagged architecture, blockupy, curitiba, democracy, democratic, design, favela, fernando luiz lara, gravity, jorge luis borges, movement, participatory, Protest, protocol, rio de janeiro, Social, Soziale Bewegung, space, spatial planning, teilhabe, tom bieling, urban planning, utopia | Leave a comment

Schrottküche

Posted on October 13, 2014 by designabilities

[English Version below!] Welche Roh- und Wertstoffe befinden sich in unseren mobilen Geräten? Unter welchen Produktionsbedingungen sind diese Geräte entstanden? Wie verhält es sich um ihren Lebenszyklus und das Leben nach ihrem Gebrauch? Im Rahmen der Code Week übt ein Team aus … Continue reading →

Posted in sustainability and social innovation | Tagged anne wohlauf, Berlin, codeweek, design, design research lab, gesche joost, Migration, nachhaltigkeit, Schlesische 27, Schrott, sustainability, technik, Udk Berlin, Ulrike Gollner, umnutzung, wiederverwerwertung | Leave a comment

Design as Radical Labour (Interview with Tom Bieling)

Posted on April 3, 2014 by designabilities

NewPractice (Issue One) on ‘Design as Radical Labour’ includes an interview with Tom Bieling about social, cultural and political dimensions of Design. Find the entire interview here!

Posted in design research, gender, interview, social design, sustainability and social innovation | Tagged interview, New Practice, Radical Labour, Thom Swann, tom bieling | Leave a comment

New Book: The History of Sustainable Design

Posted on January 17, 2014 by designabilities

click to enlarge! The new publication ‘Die Geschichte des nachhaltigen Designs‘ (= The History of sustainable Design) by Karin-Simone Fuhs, Davide Brocchi, Michael Maxein & Bernd Draser (Hrsg.) contains a contribution by Design Research Lab‘s Tom Bieling, Florian Sametinger and Gesche … Continue reading →

Posted in design research, Literature, sustainability and social innovation | Tagged Bernd Draser, buch, Davide Brocchi, design research lab, Die Geschichte des Nachhaltigen Designs, florian sametinger, gesche joost, Innovation, Karin-Simone Fuhs, Michael Maxein, nachhaltigkeit, Social, sustainability, tom bieling | Leave a comment

Radio Interview (Tom Bieling, Multicult FM, 24 October 2012)

Posted on October 27, 2012 by designabilities

Tom Bieling talks about the Project DESIGN IN(G) SOCIETY in this Radio Interview (Language: German). To listen or download the Interview click here! Or “watch” it on Youtube: For further Infos on the project click here! Project DESIGN IN(G) SOCIETY In the winter semester 2012/13, a … Continue reading →

Posted in design research, interview, sustainability and social innovation | Tagged Berlin, design, DESIGN IN(G) SOCIETY, Designforschung, GUC, interview, nachhaltigkeit, research, sozial, sustainability, tom bieling, urban | Leave a comment

Touching new ways of commincation for 2012 and beyond….

Posted on December 28, 2011 by designabilities

Dear friends Liebe Freunde Caras amigos A healthy, successful and happy 2012 to all of you (especially those we haven’t met this year)! Euch allen (insbesondere denen, die wir in diesem Jahr leider nicht treffen konnten) sowie einen sicheren Rutsch … Continue reading →

Posted in accessible, blind, body, care, deaf, design project, design research, design study, embodiment, Experience Disability, prototyping, research, social design, sustainability and social innovation, tactile communication, team | Leave a comment

Welcome to DESIGNABILITIES!

Posted on June 1, 2009 by designabilities

… a research blog developed and run at

Posted in accessible, activism, advertisement, age, alternative communication, architecture, art, augmentative communication, awareness, bioethic, blind, blog, body, body modification, Calendar, Capability Simulation, care, co-design, comedy, Conference, cyborg, cymatics, deaf, deaf-blind, Definitions, demenz, design project, design research, design study, designwissenschaft, disability aesthetics, disability studies, echolocation, education, embodiment, Enhancement, event, exhibition, Experience Disability, fashion, Film, freak, game, gender, german/deutsch, graphic, humor, illiteracy, implants, interaction, interview, jewelery, jobs, Literature, movie, multimodality, music, neuroscience, people, performance, philodhopir, philosophie, photography, playful interaction, Politik, pop culture, posthumanism, prosthetics, prototyping, quote, reciprocal learning, report, research, senses, social design, sound, STS, sustainability and social innovation, synaesthesia, tactile communication, tangible interaction, team, toy, Transhumanity, typo, Uncategorized, universal design, virtual reality, visual communication | Tagged AAC, activism, aktivismus, Architektur, augmentative, Ökonomiekritik, barrierefrei, Bürgerwissenschaft, behinderung, blind, blind view, body, braille, Citizen Science, communication, deaf, deafblind, design, design for all, design research, design research lab, designabilities, designability, Designforschung, disability, fankultur, gebärdensprache, gehörlos, gesche joost, hci, inclusion, inclusive design, inklusion, interaction, interface, journal, Konsumkritik, kunst, lorm, participatory design, partizipation, perzeption, politik, Pop, Protest, protestkultur, science, sign language, silent talk, social design, social innovation, social integration, Soziotechnik, special needs, speechless, Stadt, Stadtsoziologie, STS, Techinksozoiologie, technology, teilhabe, Theorie, tom bieling, universal design, unterstützte kommunikation, Urbanism, usability, visual communication

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