Design Thinking and the New Spirit of Capitalism

Sociological Reflections on Innovation Culture
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-31714-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 107 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 278 g

An ethnographic study on Design Thinking, this book offers profound insights into the popular innovation method, centrally exploring how design thinking’s practice relates to the vast promises surrounding it. Through a close study of a Berlin-based innovation agency, Tim Seitz finds both mundane knowledge practices and promises of transformation. He unpacks the relationships between these discourses and practices and undertakes an exploratory movement that leads him from practice theory to pragmatism. In the course of this movement, Seitz makes design thinking understandable as a phenomenon of what Boltanski and Chiapello described as the “new spirit of capitalism”—that is, an ideological structure that incorporates criticism and therefore strengthens capitalism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seitz, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Design Thinking and the New Spirit of Capitalism.- Chapter 2: The Temporality of Design Thinking.- Chapter 3: the Materiality of Design Thinking.- Chapter 4: Design Thinking and the New Spirit of Capitalism.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Seitz is a doctoral researcher in the  DFG research training group “Innovation Society Today” at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. His research interests include sociological theory, science and technology studies and ethnographic methods.