Design, learning and innovation: Frameworks and uses: Special collection

Design, learning, and innovation frame the world of digital technologies opening doors into an increasingly playful world. Whether it is about developing tools or interactive environments that can spark and nurture a passion for learning and transforming domains, design, learning, and innovation constitutes a catalyst in empowering individuals to participate, communicate, and create to be able to exceed their own limits. Making this explicit is key to identify how specific digital tools shape opportunities for how people can learn and engage with the demands of life. Today, challenges in the fields of design, learning, and innovation are often approached by trans-disciplinary teams and methods, unlocking new frameworks for understanding these fields and thereby enriching learning in different learning practices. This special collection addresses such impacts of digital technologies to, in sustainable and playful ways, foster human beings to realise their needs and ideas. The importance of this special collection topic is thus rooted in understanding how design, learning and innovation can shape the real impact in approaching societal as well as individual challenges.