Navigating Societal Change through Design: Leading Missions for a Prosperous Future - Couverture souple

Gry Striegler, Sara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1447375556 ISBN 13 : 9781447375555

Editeur : Policy Press, 2025

Synopsis

This book interconnects a group of diverse, but overlapping, professional domains – futures design, mission-oriented innovation, system innovation and leadership – to encourage a new, heightened awareness of systemic change that can lead to societal transformation and a sustainable future.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sara Gry Striegler is CEO for Nordic Health Lab, founder of Kindred Lab for Transitions and Chair of the Social Innovation Academy.

Julie Hjort is COO at the Danish Design Center and Chair of the Maker Foundation.

Sara Gry Striegler is CEO for Nordic Health Lab and leads a matchmaking organisation cross-cutting and bridging the public healthcare system and private companies to co-create sustainable solutions. She is founder of Kindred Lab for Transitions and previously Director for Societal Transitions at Danish Design Center, pioneering the work with futures design and mission-oriented innovation. Over the past 15 years, Sara has worked to address complex societal challenges and drive change and innovation within the major agendas of health, welfare, youth mental health and ageing.

She is internationally recognised and part of the Top 50 WEF & Apolitical list Most Influential People Revolutionising Governance in the Futures Thinking category (2020). She is an experienced speaker and author of a chapter in the book Leadership of Public Innovation (2022, published in Danish) and Strategic innovation in Healthcare (2020, published in Danish), as well as a chapter on mission-oriented innovation in Sigge Winther Nielsen's anthology on wicked problems (2023).

Sara is Chair at The Social Innovation Academy and former external lecturer at the Technical University of Denmark.

Julie Hjort is the COO and Director of Green Transition at the Danish Design Center and spearheads the Center's mission to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. She has been a driving force in developing a design-based approach to mission-oriented innovation that she has applied both at the DDC and in external partnerships to tackle sustainability challenges. For over a decade, Julie has worked with design, innovation, leadership and transformation in interdisciplinary and public/private partnerships.

Julie is Chair of Maker, an association for physical entrepreneurship that runs an urban prototyping lab in Copenhagen. She is a seasoned speaker on the topic of circular transformation and mission-oriented innovation. Julie was profiled as a prominent circular designer by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (fall 2023). Julie holds an MA in Contemporary Culture and Dissemination from the University of Copenhagen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Policy Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1447375556
• ISBN 13: 9781447375555
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
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