Dr. Sabine Junginger

Lecturer

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Design in the Organization, Design and Change, Design Management, Design Thinking, Human-Centered Product Development, Design Theory

Sabine explores the meanings, roles and values human-centered design thinking and design methods have for organisations. One of her goals is to provide tools for designers and managers that show the many ways in which design can and is being used within the organisation. This includes visual tools for designers and managers to evaluate and reflect on the roles they assign design. She studies the links that exist between design and change and the implications this has for design in the organisation.

Her work has received attention from both designers (see IDSA/ICSID, San Francisco, 2007) and managers (see The Economic Power of Design, Tel Aviv 2008). It builds on her dissertation "Change in the Making: Organizational Change Through Human-Centered Product Development," where she shows how design thinking and design methods can change large and complex organisations (The United States Postal Service, The United States Internal Revenue Service and the Australian Tax Office).

Current research activities

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Design for a culture of change in secondary schools

Develop long-term strategic thinking within schools
Enable students and staff to find new ways to support Personal Development

Design within the Organisation: A Case Study

Design within the Organization inquires into how organizations make use of design internally. My first case tries to find a link between an organization’s track record in design–documented with external awards and recognitions–its actual internal design capability and its overall design competency. Are design thinking and design methods shaping strategy or merely products? Any organization interested in being part of this study can contact me.

ImaginationLabs

ImaginationLabs allow local and national entrepreneurs to collaborate with leading international researchers, the imagination team and other experts at Lancaster University. The role of these workshops is to link research with practice and to facilitate the development of new approaches to new business challenges. For more information, contact Sabine Junginger or Stuart Walker.

Design for Flexibility and Change within health service providers

Explore how people adapt to and drive change in Primary Care Trusts
Explore how built and technical infrastructure supports or inhibits innovation and adaptation processes
Develop design recommendations to improve the way the life cycle of infrastructure is designed, conceived and managed

Selected Publications

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Junginger, S. (2008) “Product Development as Vehicle for Organizational Change,” Design Issues, Special Issue: Organizational Change, 24:1

Junginger, S. mit V. Bühlmann. (2008) “Thoughts on Design in the Organization - a Dialogue with Vera Bühlmann,” in pre-specifics: some comparatistic investigations on research in design and art V. Bühlmann und M. Wiedmer (eds.), JRP Ringier Verlag, Zürich.

Junginger, S. (2007) “Learning to Design–Giving Purpose to Heart, Hand, and Mind,” Journal of Business Strategy, Special Issue: Design & Business, Vol. 28 No. 4, 2007, 59-65.

Junginger, S. (2007). “Discovering Design in the Organization: Reflecting on Trends in Design & Management,” Conference Proceedings International Association of Societies of Design Research: Emerging Trends, Hongkong 2007.

Junginger, S. (2007) “Preparing Design Students for a Different Role Within the Organization,” 9th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Shaping the Future, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Junginger, S. (2006) “Of Drifters, Accommodators, Transformers–and Design,” presented at Wonderground, the 2006 conference of the Design Research Society.

Junginger, S. (2006) “Human-Centered Interaction Design: A Study in Collective Creativity,” presented at the Academy of Management pre-conference session on Critical Management Studies, August 2006.

Junginger, S. (2005) “A Different Role for Human-Centered Design within the Organization,” Conference Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Design, Bremen.

Junginger, S.(2003) “Organizational Change and Human-Centered Product Development,” Conference Proceedings, 9th Australian and New Zealand Systems Conference: Systems in Action, Melbourne, 2003.

Junginger, S. (2002) “Gender & Design: Exploring Practices, Products and Processes,” International Conference on the History of Technology, Granada, Spain, 2002.

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