What a great, shaking, grieving party this book is - the best.' Eileen Myles'I read with the aching intensity of a person possessed ...

Welcome to a world where everything seems “wrong”: eating meat, smoking, sitting, flying, data, campfires, flowers on the table—even your houseplant might be a climate offender.

We’re flooded with dos and don’ts, as if daily life must constantly be corrected by a moral authority. But what if we didn’t shrink back in shame? What if we moved forward—with imagination?

The NO DESIGN MANIFESTO is a call for creative freedom.

At Next Nature, we don’t believe in going back to natur...

You want to change the world? Turns out the system isn’t built for that.

The Social Designer’s Paradox is a candid, compelling companion for anyone trying to make change from within public systems.

Social designers step into government and institutions full of creativity, care, and bold ideas—only to meet the reality of bureaucracy, politics, outdated structures, and a whole different language. This book explores why people who want to shake things up often struggle in systems designed ...

Most businesses don’t take qualitative research seriously. They see it as soft, vague—too uncertain to drive business strategy.

That’s why so many researchers see their insights ignored and struggle to gain buy-in.

Design Research Mastery changes the game. Sara Fortier teaches you how to transform research into a strategic catalyst—winning over skeptics and inspiring innovative products and services. Through a step-by-step approach, readers will master the planning, execution, and co...

Break Free from Outdated Thinking

Traditional strategies are no longer enough. In a world defined by complexity and rapid change, businesses and leaders need a new approach.

This book delivers exactly that: a bold blueprint for strategic innovation that blends design-based methods with powerful change theories to spark real transformation. Explore what it takes to drive innovation—from the right mindset and team dynamics to the collaborative conditions that enable deep, systemic change.

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This self-contained monograph reports the recent approaches, methods and practices of technology-enabled personalized learning. It serves to provide some useful references for researchers and practitioners in the field in conceptualizing and deploying personalized learning.

This edited volume explores the notion of “artifice” in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries around the globe.

Artifice has been regarded as a primarily Western phenomenon, playing as it does a central role in European art theory since the Renaissance. This volume proposes that artifice is better understood as a transcultural artistic phenomenon and requires far broader conceptualization across international contexts. It acquaints readers...