Course coordinator: Anna Pohlmeyer
Student assistant: Lina Li
Design for Prosocial Behavior
This year, all projects explored design solutions to stimulate prosocial behavior.
“The word prosocial […] was created by social scientists as an antonym for antisocial. Prosocial behavior covers the broad range of actions intended to benefit one or more people other than oneself”
(Batson & Powell, 2003, p.463)
Cooking an extra meal for a sick neighbor, volunteering at a refugee camp, contributing to an open-source code library, offering someone in a hurry to skip the queue, donating to charity, providing directions to a foreigner, or calling a friend to lend her an ear are all examples of prosocial behavior. How can design trigger and facilitate behavior that aims to benefit others?
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Buckies read more |
Asthata read more |
Welcome Here read more |
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High Five MUSIC read more |
Message in a Bottle read more |
The Confession Mirror read more |
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Studio KIDDO read more |
EyeCatchy read more |
Conifersation read more |
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Greetings From read more |
In the Picture read more |
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Wiggle read more |
Coast it read more |
Symbiosis read more |
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The Stories of Stervoorde read more |
Reduce Elevator Akwardsness read more |
De Aanbevelingskast read more |
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Frame Your Shame read more |
Mindnapping read more |
Neighbourhood Plastics read more |