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Design is increasingly perceived as a social process that involves the participation of multiple agents with multiple, and often conflicting, needs, knowledge, and goals. It is proposed here that the notion of coordination is an apposite concept for capturing the social distributed character of design and for reconciling social and cognitive perceptions of design activity. Coordination places emphasis on issues of interdependency, complexity, and distribution, and facilitates the understanding of design by including notions of collaboration as well as conflict. Additionally, coordination is used to capture the generative, creative aspects of design. In this study I use insights from complexity science to offer an understanding of coordination as a process that entails the emergence of collective design solutions.

The creative citizen unbound introduces the concept of 'creative citizenship' to explore the potential of civic-minded creative individuals in the era of social media and in the context of an expanding creative economy. Drawing on the findings of a 30-month study of communities supported by the UK research funding councils, multidisciplinary contributors examine the value and nature of creative citizenship, not only in terms of its contribution to civic life and social capital but also to more contested notions of value, both economic and cultural. This original book will be beneficial to researchers and students across a range of disciplines including media and communication, political science, economics, planning and economic geography, and the creative and performing arts