Deep Change: Creating Space for Meaningful Transformation maps a new logic for systemic change — showing how design thinking can operate not just at the level of products or services, but across organisations, sectors, and societies in genuine transformation.
About This Book
The problems defining our era resist the tools we built to solve them. They are open, networked, and shifting — and conventional innovation frameworks keep producing the same inadequate responses. In Deep Change, Kees Dorst extends the frame innovation methodology he developed in his earlier bestseller into far more ambitious territory: organisational change, sector-wide paradigm shifts, and large-scale societal transitions. The mechanism binding all of these together is the studio model — a new kind of innovation infrastructure designed to hold the tension between top-down and bottom-up reframing. Illustrated through more than 24 real-world case studies, this is a book for anyone who needs to think differently about systemic change and design practice.
Key Features
- 286 pages of conceptual frameworks, case-study analysis, and real-world examples drawn from organisational, sector, and societal change
- Author: Kees Dorst
- 24+ case studies spanning multiple scales of change
- Published by The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262553742
What You'll Discover
- Why the studio model functions as a new type of innovation infrastructure — and how it creates sustained conditions for deep change rather than one-off interventions
- How top-down and bottom-up reframing can be synchronised to drive organisational transformation, rather than working at cross purposes
- The mechanics of sector-level change: how new paradigms are created and adopted across entire fields of practice
- How design's creative practices can be scaled to shape major societal transitions — moving well beyond conventional problem-solving logics
About the Author
Kees Dorst is the author of the bestselling Frame Innovation, which established his framework for creative problem-framing in design practice. In Deep Change, he builds on that foundation to address transformation at organisational, sector, and societal scales.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 286
- Dimensions: 15.39 x 22.86 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780262553742
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Design researchers, organisational strategists, urban policymakers, and senior practitioners seeking a rigorous design-based framework for navigating complex systemic change.