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The Materials of Service Design
If Design is about forming materials, then what are the materials of Service Design? In this ground-breaking book, Johan Blomkvist, Simon Clatworthy and Stefan Holmlid explore this question by establishing a discourse around the materials of service design, discussing materials as a means to explore what service design is and could be.
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If Design is about forming materials, then what are the materials of Service Design? In this ground-breaking book, Johan Blomkvist, Simon Clatworthy and Stefan Holmlid explore this question by establishing a discourse around the materials of service design, discussing materials as a means to study what service design is and could be.
Exploring the contours and foundations of the field, this innovative book redefines the material and opens with an investigation of how service has been understood as a material in design. With insights from expert practitioners in the field, chapters then examine a vast library of materials, including social structures, touch-points, thinking, culture, time, organisations, conversations, data, human bodies and more. Making sense of this material mix, the book delves into the material of the immaterial and displays the diversified and expansive field of service design today. In doing so, it forms a starting point to go beyond reductionist ideas of the material-immaterial dichotomy and makes room for new constructivist perspectives.
Contributing to the development of education within service design, this insightful book will be invaluable for practitioners and course leaders looking to navigate a new path to service design. Founded in design as a knowledge intensive practice, it will also be transformative for the research of students and scholars of marketing, service design, design theory, and innovation studies.
Exploring the contours and foundations of the field, this innovative book redefines the material and opens with an investigation of how service has been understood as a material in design. With insights from expert practitioners in the field, chapters then examine a vast library of materials, including social structures, touch-points, thinking, culture, time, organisations, conversations, data, human bodies and more. Making sense of this material mix, the book delves into the material of the immaterial and displays the diversified and expansive field of service design today. In doing so, it forms a starting point to go beyond reductionist ideas of the material-immaterial dichotomy and makes room for new constructivist perspectives.
Contributing to the development of education within service design, this insightful book will be invaluable for practitioners and course leaders looking to navigate a new path to service design. Founded in design as a knowledge intensive practice, it will also be transformative for the research of students and scholars of marketing, service design, design theory, and innovation studies.
Critical Acclaim
‘Fundamentally, designers should understand the materials with which they work, how they fit together and interact. The Materials of Service Design is at once rigorous, readable and practically applicable. It is essential reading for anyone working in the field, valuable to practitioners and academics alike.’
– Andy Polaine, Design Leadership Coach
‘Finally demystified, with rigor and clarity! This book offers the most crystalized and designerly understanding of the persistent question around Service Design, “what to design with and for”. This book will redefine what you think you know about Service Design and bring new dimensions to disciplinary and professional identities and educational visions of Service Design. A must-read for anyone who wishes to do Service Design rightly.’
– Jung Joo Lee, National University of Singapore
– Andy Polaine, Design Leadership Coach
‘Finally demystified, with rigor and clarity! This book offers the most crystalized and designerly understanding of the persistent question around Service Design, “what to design with and for”. This book will redefine what you think you know about Service Design and bring new dimensions to disciplinary and professional identities and educational visions of Service Design. A must-read for anyone who wishes to do Service Design rightly.’
– Jung Joo Lee, National University of Singapore
Contents
Contents:
Preface ix
Prologue: defining material xiii
Part 1 Introduction: something made the object of study
1 The move away from matter in art and design
2 The core of design is in the making
3 Representations in service design
4 Service as material
5 Cultural bodies empowered to perform services: a critical perspective
Part 2 The constituents of which something is composed
1 Introduction to a library of materials
2 Social structures
3 Touch-points as a material
4 Thinking: an underexplored service design material
5 Culture as a material
Interlude 1: Materiality in design from a practitioner perspective: interview with Markus Edgar Hormeß,
Adam Lawrence and Marc Stickdorn (26 April 2022)
6 Time, timing, time-ing
7 Organisations as material
8 Conversations as a service design material
9 Ritual: meaningful material for service design
10 Certainty and its artefacts
Interlude 2: Expertise as material of service design: interview with Lavrans Løvlie (2 December 2021)
11 Collaborations
12 Behaviour as service design material
13 Experience as a material
14 Data matter: as data become matter, design matters
15 Clay: a tangible catalyst
Interlude 3: Data as material of services
16 Human bodies
17 Sound
18 The service offering as a material
19 Policy, governance
Part 3 Qualities by which something may be categorised
1 Making sense of a material mix
2 Categorisation of materials as a way of understanding their characteristics
3 Addressing the material mix: service as hypermaterial
4 Layered materials and layered materiality
5 A move towards a framework for materials
Part 4 A performer’s repertoire (the service designer’s material)
1 Aesthetics in service design
2 Service phantasms
3 Service and design as bricolage and rhizomes
4 Returning to the foundational question
Index
Preface ix
Prologue: defining material xiii
Part 1 Introduction: something made the object of study
1 The move away from matter in art and design
2 The core of design is in the making
3 Representations in service design
4 Service as material
5 Cultural bodies empowered to perform services: a critical perspective
Part 2 The constituents of which something is composed
1 Introduction to a library of materials
2 Social structures
3 Touch-points as a material
4 Thinking: an underexplored service design material
5 Culture as a material
Interlude 1: Materiality in design from a practitioner perspective: interview with Markus Edgar Hormeß,
Adam Lawrence and Marc Stickdorn (26 April 2022)
6 Time, timing, time-ing
7 Organisations as material
8 Conversations as a service design material
9 Ritual: meaningful material for service design
10 Certainty and its artefacts
Interlude 2: Expertise as material of service design: interview with Lavrans Løvlie (2 December 2021)
11 Collaborations
12 Behaviour as service design material
13 Experience as a material
14 Data matter: as data become matter, design matters
15 Clay: a tangible catalyst
Interlude 3: Data as material of services
16 Human bodies
17 Sound
18 The service offering as a material
19 Policy, governance
Part 3 Qualities by which something may be categorised
1 Making sense of a material mix
2 Categorisation of materials as a way of understanding their characteristics
3 Addressing the material mix: service as hypermaterial
4 Layered materials and layered materiality
5 A move towards a framework for materials
Part 4 A performer’s repertoire (the service designer’s material)
1 Aesthetics in service design
2 Service phantasms
3 Service and design as bricolage and rhizomes
4 Returning to the foundational question
Index
