Social Cartography for Social Innovation: A Design Approach

Miguel Navarro-Sanint
2013 Proceedings of the XVII Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - SIGraDi: Knowledge-based Design   unpublished
In this paper I describe the use of social cartographies as a tool for design students in a social innovation process with communities. I show the process since the first approach to the communities until the end of the cartographic process and its outcomes. I present the advantages of using social cartographies when facilitating social innovation processes: the high involvement of the participants, how it helps to construct a common language, how it allows to understand the community and how
more » ... helped the design students to apprehend the tool for their design practice.
doi:10.5151/despro-sigradi2013-0017 fatcat:wqd7rkvg5jdttp6np75k74tfnq