"Transformation design' is looking for new ways to change our behavior and society through new forms of innovation. The existing user-oriented approach of design must therefore be extended to one that is society-oriented. The concept of transformation is based on the anthropologist Karl Paul Polanyi and his book The Great Transformation (1944), which described the emergence of the now almost undisputed and globally widespread western market logic: the transformation of societies with markets into market societies, which he calls 'dislodgment of the markets'. Meanwhile, leading think tanks are referring to Polanyi. They are calling for a new social contract and the 're-embedding' of the market into society. What are the possible instruments and contributions of design for this new 'Great Transformation'? The variety of the above questions, answers, theories, methods, ideas, and projects suggests that 'transformation design' is not in fact a discipline in itself, but that it will lead to a fruitful discourse. The book attempts to form an initial position in terms of this ambitious and ethical design perspective. It also seeks to inspire the international debate to push for a project of responsible design

• Transformation design starts with people dreaming: designers and theatre makers design utopias for major transformation / Kristof von Anshelm
• Nicolas Beucker
• Flavia Caviezel
• Caroline L. Davey and Andrew B. Wootton
• Michael Erlhoff
• Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe
• Franziska Holzner
• Wolfgang Jonas
• Gesche Joost and Andreas Unteidig
• Victor Margolin
• Gavin Melles
• Stephan Rammler
• Bernd Sommer and Harald Welzer
• Peter Friedrich Stephan
• Matthew Ward
• John Wood
• Transformation design: a piecemeal situational change / Deep involvement:on transformation processes related to the RhyCycling project / Transformation design:creating security and well-being / Owls to Athens, or:the discrete charm of transformation design / Could design help to promote and build empathic processes in prison? understanding the role of empathy and design in catalysig social change and transformation / Approaching our dog: transformation design - an attempt / Social transformation design as a form of research through design (RTD): some historical, theoretical, and methodological remarks / Design and social change: the changing enviroment of a discipline in flux / Human systems design: a new direction for practice / Designing for sustainable development: industrial ecology, sustainable development, and social innovation / Mobility peak:scenes from a deceleration / Transformation design: a social-ecological perspective / Designing 'matters of concern' (latour): a future design challenge? / Rapid prototyping politics: design and the de-material turn / Collective metamorphosis: a combinatorial approach to transformation design / Transformation design as 'hero's journey' /