사회적 디자인(Social Design)의 등장 배경에 관한 연구

The concept of humanity is considered as the common issue of various areas in the 21st century. The diverse issues such as social design, social enterprise, and ethical consumption, etc., actually involves in the humanity. The unique aspect is that they focus on the disadvantaged group and want to do something for their severe situation in spite of the economic recession all the world faced. This paper shows how the social design appeared as a paradigm of the 21st century design on the historical consideration, and tries to prove that the social design is not a new trend but the subtle movement that begun from 19th century.