Design for Global Challenges and Goals charts the developments, opportunities and challenges for design research in addressing global challenges facing developing contexts focusing on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

The book explores the role that design and social responsibility play in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how design works in developing contexts. It presents 10 design-led case studies addressing different Sustainable Development Goals ranging from reducing poverty and hunger, improving health and wellbeing, promoting gender equality, developing more sustainable cities and communities, encouraging more responsible consumption and production, and tackling climate change. Design for Global Challenges and Goals also addresses the future, offering foresight into the research in global challenges by identifying the opportunities and emerging trends for researchers.

Providing a guide to the state of the art of design research that addresses the Sustainable Development Goals, this book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students who want their research to address global challenges.

Emmanuel Tsekleves is Senior Lecturer in Design for Health at ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University. His research focuses on tackling community challenges related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Emmanuel is the convenor of the Design Research Society Global Health special interest group and co-editor of Design for Health (Routledge, 2017).

Rachel Cooper, OBE, is Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy at ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University. She is Founding Director of ImaginationLancaster, an open and exploratory design-led research lab conducting applied and theoretical research into people, products and places and their interactions. Her research interests cover design thinking, design management and design policy and span all sectors of industry, with a specific interest in design for wellbeing and socially responsible design. She is President of the Design Research Society.

Jak Spencer is Founding Partner at Urban Scale Interventions, a creative studio responding to changes in the way we live, work and play. Previously Jak led the Social & Global Research Space at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art. His research interests lie in design for sustainable behaviour with a focus on developing markets.