Recipes for social cooperation

About the book

The Social Design Cookbook is a colourful selection of replicable collaborative and cooperative formats. It presents 18 widely adopted models and practices of collaborative knowledge production, sharing, collective action and decision making.

It also offers the ’social design canvas’, a design toolkit to aid individual and organisational efforts to understand, analyse, and design new cooperative social processes, which are independent of monetary motivations.

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“This cookbook lives up to its name! You rarely find a book so accessible and hands-on, yet so beautifully designed. If you conduct projects that involve people you have to read this.”

— Jakob Schneider, co-author and designer of This is Service Design Thinking/Doing


“This book is loaded with tips, tricks and best practices. Start implementing them so you can experience how much power communities hold to induce great changes.”

— Péter Halácsy, co-founder at Prezi.com and CEO at Budapest School

Case studies

  • Complaints choir

  • Critical Mass

    Critical Mass

  • Fab Lab

    Fab Lab

  • PechaKucha Night

    PechaKucha Night

  • Fortepan

    Fortepan

  • NaNoWriMo

    NaNoWriMo

  • Freesound

    Freesound

  • Long Night of Museums

    Long Night of Museums

  • Galaxy Zoo

    Galaxy Zoo

  • Jarokelo

    Jarokelo

  • Museomix

    Museomix

  • Democracy OS

    Democracy OS

  • OpenStreetMap

    OpenStreetMap

  • Restaurant Day

    Restaurant Day

  • Subjective Atlas

    Subjective Atlas

  • The PORT Hackathon

    The PORT Hackathon

  • Wikidata

    Wikidata

  • USE-IT

    USE-IT

Social design Canvas

Social Design Canvas is a novel design tool that helps map, analyse and design key ingredients of social cooperative processes and systems: contributors, contributions, motivations, enablers, rules and tools.

 

Meet the authors

Attila Bujdosó authored and published Social Design Cookbook in 2019. He is a UX designer who is addicted to coffee, large cities and the Internet.

Lilla Mayer designed the stunning book.

Key contributors to the book include Ágnes Muszka, Lili Eckhardt, Martijn de Waal, Jaakko Blomberg and many others.