Social Design Cookbook (Hardcover)

The Social Design Cookbook, co-authored by designers and researchers from Finland, Hungary, and the Netherlands, explores what it takes to design successful social cooperative systems – from processes and organizations to entire communities.

The book presents inspiring international examples of sustainable and replicable formats of social cooperation, such as Freesound, Restaurant Day, and The Long Night of Museums.

What’s inside?

Discover 18 engaging case studies that showcase a diverse range of social cooperative formats which have succeeded in their local contexts and been replicated around the world.

You’ll read about:

• Restaurant Day – a one-day food carnival that spread from Helsinki to over 30 countries.
• Critical Mass – an urban cycling movement reclaiming the streets, with up to 80,000 cyclists joining in Budapest.
• PechaKucha Night – a global event series for young architects and designers, active in more than 1,000 cities worldwide.
• Fab Lab – a workshop network for digital fabrication, now present in over 1,000 cities globally.
• OpenStreetMap – an open-source, collaborative digital mapping project empowering millions of volunteers to map our planet.

A tool for changemakers

The book also introduces the Social Design Canvas, a practical design tool for analyzing and creating new forms of social collaboration and cooperation.

Think of it as the social and non-profit equivalent of the Business Model Canvas – tailored for communities, organizations, and initiatives that put people first.

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