What is Social Design?

What is Social Design?
Design and strategic design thinking that contributes to improving the social well-being of people and society, making people's lives better.
http://socialdesigner.com/
Who practices Social Design?
Social design is and up and coming discipline- MICA (the Maryland Institute College of Art) now offers a Masters program  for social designers. Social Designers can be architects, fashion designers, installation artists, or essentially from any medium of art.
http://www.micasocialdesign.com/
Towson's sustainable buildings:
http://www.towson.edu/adminfinance/gogreen/greencampus/buildings.asp
"The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) building utilizes recycled materials from the Lida Lee Tall demolition. Nearly 93% of the Lida Lee Tall building was recycled, with much of it being reused on site"
A popular example is Tom's Shoes:
http://www.toms.com/our-movement/
Andrew Mikhael-installation piece:
http://andrewmikhael.com/social-parking#/i/3
Urban installation, origami:
http://www.socialdesignmagazine.com/en/site/visual/urban-origami-installations.html