Tim Seitz

Design Thinking and the New Spirit of Capitalism

Sociological Reflections on Innovation Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

An ethnographic study on Design Thinking, this book offers profound insights into the popular innovation method, centrally exploring how design thinking's practice relates to the vast promises surrounding it. Through a close study of a Berlin-based innovation agency, Tim Seitz finds both mundane knowledge practices and promises of transformation. He unpacks the relationships between these discourses and practices and undertakes an exploratory movement that leads him from practice theory to pragmatism. In the course of this movement, Seitz makes design thinking understandable as a phenomenon of what Boltanski and Chiapello described as the "new spirit of capitalism"-that is, an ideological structure that incorporates criticism and therefore strengthens capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Pivot / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-31714-0
• 1st ed. 2020
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9783030317140
• ISBN-10: 3030317145
• Artikelnr.: 57518825

Autorenporträt

Tim Seitz is a doctoral researcher in the  DFG research training group "Innovation Society Today" at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. His research interests include sociological theory, science and technology studies and ethnographic methods.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: Design Thinking and the New Spirit of CapitalismChapter 2: The Temporality of Design Thinking2.1 Time Pressure2.2 Timeboxing and the logic of iteration2.3 Time Shortage2.4 Interim Reflections, Take One2.5 Empathy as MethodologyChapter 3: the Materiality of Design Thinking3.1 Design Thinking as Laboratory Practice3.2 Translating People into Paper3.3 Design Thinking Creates Problems3.4 Covering the Tracks3.5 Design thinking as Pure Development Process3.6 Method as Tool3.7 Interim Reflections, Take TwoChapter 4: Design Thinking and the New Spirit of Capitalism4.1 User-friendliness as a promise of authenticity4.1 Design Thinking as Emancipated WorkConclusion.