Redesigning Social Systems

September 18, 2018
09:45–10:15 (Asia/Shanghai time zone)

About this session

Social safety nets created in the 1930s and 1940s were designed along the same principles of centralization and mass production that governed the assembly lines of the Second Industrial Revolution. Against a backdrop of longer lives, globalization and the changing nature of work, social innovator Hilary Cottam proposes a human-centred design approach to reinvent social systems for the Fourth...
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