Abstract
[Background & Challenges] Traditional poverty alleviation is a high-cost matter. In many cases, poverty alleviation is regarded as a ‘cost’ that a society needs to pay. However, the existing practices of Design for Poverty Alleviation still focused more on the application of product design and appearance improvement and had not fully tapped the potential of Design. [Objective] This study aims to use Design at a higher level to turn poverty alleviation from a ‘social cost’ to an ‘innovative resource’. [Method & Outcomes] This paper applies the Action Research method to propose and test the Design-driven Poverty Alleviation (DDPA) Framework, which consists of three core goals and three design principles: Goal 1, promoting economic development; Goal 2, promoting inclusive outcomes; Goal 3, promoting sustainable growth; Principle 1, use design from the strategic stage; Principle 2, introduce as many stakeholders as possible to build a new value network; Principle 3, build a product system with all hierarchy of needs. Subsequently, this study carried out the first Action Research Cycle in the Dongxiang case through action research and proposed a series of solutions to the four major issues.
Keywords
design-driven poverty alleviation; value network; social innovation; sustainability
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.559
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Jin, Y.,and Xu, P.(2023) Design-driven Poverty Alleviation: an approach that turns Poverty Alleviation from a cost perspective to a resource perspective, in De Sainz Molestina, D., Galluzzo, L., Rizzo, F., Spallazzo, D. (eds.), IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, 9-13 October, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.559
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[Background & Challenges] Traditional poverty alleviation is a high-cost matter. In many cases, poverty alleviation is regarded as a ‘cost’ that a society needs to pay. However, the existing practices of Design for Poverty Alleviation still focused more on the application of product design and appearance improvement and had not fully tapped the potential of Design. [Objective] This study aims to use Design at a higher level to turn poverty alleviation from a ‘social cost’ to an ‘innovative resource’. [Method & Outcomes] This paper applies the Action Research method to propose and test the Design-driven Poverty Alleviation (DDPA) Framework, which consists of three core goals and three design principles: Goal 1, promoting economic development; Goal 2, promoting inclusive outcomes; Goal 3, promoting sustainable growth; Principle 1, use design from the strategic stage; Principle 2, introduce as many stakeholders as possible to build a new value network; Principle 3, build a product system with all hierarchy of needs. Subsequently, this study carried out the first Action Research Cycle in the Dongxiang case through action research and proposed a series of solutions to the four major issues.