Design emergencies. revisiting the nexus of design, aid and development
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Publikationsdatum
2026
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Studiengang
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01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
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Übergeordnetes Werk
Third World Quarterly
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1-12
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Routledge
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Zusammenfassung
This special issue affirms that design, as a socio-material practice of problem-solving, has gained currency among a variety of actors – from governments and international organisations to civil society forums and community activists – to address increasingly complex and interwoven emergencies. As design historians have shown, involving designers and leveraging semi-codified design protocols like ‘design thinking’ to find ostensibly innovative solutions to ‘wicked problems’ is not a new phenomenon within the twin field of humanitarian aid and international development. However, in the face of global polycrisis, the pragmatic promises of design have expanded its appeal. A growing literature thus examines how the turn to design-led innovation in humanitarian aid and development reflects a reinvigorated belief in techno-utopianism, a tendency to bolster Western interventionism, and the reaffirmation of neoliberal market logics. At the same time, there remains a need for a differentiated understanding of how design is taken up and negotiated across scales, and beyond unidirectional North-to-South diffusion. The collection of articles maps how the rise of intersecting emergencies, allied with concerns for resilience, sustainability and, at times, social justice, has positioned design as a powerful, albeit fragmented, assemblage that has, over time, conjured different ideologies, politics and practices of change.
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1360-2241
0143-6597
0143-6597
Sprache
Englisch
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Ja
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Veröffentlicht
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Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
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Closed
Zitation
Messell, T., & Nkula-Wenz, L. (2026). Design emergencies. revisiting the nexus of design, aid and development. Third World Quarterly, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2026.2646526