Eleni Kalantidou is a design psychologist, strategist, researcher, and senior lecturer at Griffith University, Australia. Her research activities are focused on environmental and social resilience, design strategy, social impact, and social innovation. Kalantidou's research on repair, community-led behavioural change, resilience, and adaptation has been published in books and journals and funded by grants and consultancies. As a researcher and consultant, she has collaborated with various international, national, and local non-governmental organisations, as well as the public sector.

Introduction

Chapter One: Setting the Scene for Design Psychology - Where From and Where To?

Design Psychology: Where From?

Ontologically Situated Psychology and Design

Epistemologically Situated Psychology and Design

The 'Scientification' of Psychology and Design

Psychology as a Science

Critiquing the Natural-Scientific Model and Modern Psychology

Design as a Science

Critiquing the Natural-Scientific Model and Design as a Science

Psychology and Design

Psychologies and Designs

Notes

References

Chapter Two: Psychology and Design - An Opportunity for Change

Impromptu Design Psychology

Defining Impromptu Design Psychology

Cognitive Psychology and Design

Behavioural Psychology and Design

Design and Emotion

Impromptu Design Psychology as a Response to Social and Environmental Challenges

Impromptu Design Psychology and User-Centred Design

Intentional Design Psychology

Plural Psychologies and Designs

Place-Based and Lived Experience Approaches

Design Psychology: Where To?

Notes

References

Chapter Three: The Design Psychology of Urban Environments

The Evolving Relationship Between Cities and Psychologies

Urban Schizophrenia

The Urban Psychologies of Housing Precarity

Psychologies of Displacement

Designing Psychologies of Adaptation

The Technocratic Approach

The Degrowth/Commoning Approach

The Just Transitions/Green New Deal Approach

The Intentional Design Psychology of Adaptation

Notes

References

Chapter Four: The Design Psychology of Technological Dependence

The Design Psychology of Technocracy

From Technê to Technology

From Homo Faber to Posthuman

The Design Psychology of Informational Revolution

The Role of Design

The Role of Psychology

The Role of Design Psychology

The Intentional Design Psychology of Critically Living with Technology

Notes

References

Chapter Five: The Design Psychology of Waste

The Condition of Waste

The Making of Consumer Culture

The Sociology and Psychology of Consumer Culture

The Design of Consumer Culture

The Design Psychology of (Un)Happiness

Steps Toward Redemption: Design, Psychology and (Impromptu) Design Psychology

Design

Psychology

Impromptu Design Psychology

The Verdict

Repair As Intentional Design Psychology

Learnings From Lived Experience for Intentional Design Psychology

Notes

References

Chapter Six: Intentional Design Psychology - An Introduction

Intentional Versus Impromptu Design Psychology

Di/De- with Care

Detaching

Destroying

Disassembling

Discomforting

Intentional Design Psychology: A Loose Ideological Framework

Bringing Psychology and Design Together

Disrupting Normality

Community-Led Behavioural Change

Handling Fr/Agility with Care

Epilogue

Next Steps

Notes

References

Index