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Power of Design

The book positions design as an essential partner to science and technology, through mapping the innovation contexts, navigating multiple conflicting systems, and aligning diverse voices to maximise innovation success.

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Designing the X. Shaping an Unknown Future

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Authors

Dennis Frenchman

Svafa Grönfeldt

Sigurdur Thorsteinsson

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ISBN: 9780998117089

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Publisher
SA+P Press
MIT School of Architecture and Planning 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

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© 2025 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Accessibility

Project Lead
María Esteban Casañas​

Editors
Matilda Bathurst, development editor

Elizabeth Hamblin, copy editor​

Design
Sigrún Sæmundsen, Igor Micevic

Distributed by MIT Press

​Printed and bound in Italy by Fontegrafica

Other Contributors

Gianandrea Giacoma

Francesco Zurlo

Dale Dillavou

​Luca De Biase

Research Assistants

Yasuyuki Hayama

Gilad Rosenzweig

​Carla Sedini

​Michael Stradley

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