News: Invitation: Other economies – Other publications
Student work & Features
Helvektur, a hybrid made font, investigated through subtle guerrilla art
Student work:Making a Hybrid of Fraktur and Helvetica
By:Freja Bager
Typography has a textual and visual power that carries meaning and influences us. Our subconscious is continuously affected by our surrounding environment, reviewing typography and forming perceptions, making typographic communication a big part of our everyday lives. Not only from a standpoint of beauty, but to serve as a provider of information, where its visual appearance effects how it is and should be read.
By:Michaela Edlund
An illustrated booklet on emotional and ecological layers within a Swedish forest.
Student work:Project THEM – Short film
By:Ward Alaraj
The project’s goal is to produce a dystopian live-action short film. To expose the danger of misusing technological advances to achieve propaganda set to ensure control over the public. And to closely look into the mentalities and perspectives of the public considering institutional racism.
Student work:A bite of food from another culture
By:Leen Kawaf
During the design process I explored how design can achieve sustainable change for the better during the fast-paced lifestyle through homemade food.
The design programs
Why change?
Collecting knowledge
Doesn’t design already imply change? Yes, through design we give form to new products (and books, campaigns, services, systems and much more). Through these we also shape and change behaviours, attitudes and even worldviews.
Today it is both formally and globally recognised that both ecological and social systems are in a critical state. We also know that human activities – and not least design, and its associated overconsumption – drive unsustainability. With + Change we want to emphasise the very potential of design to affect change and to extend it. + Change comprises different perspectives on change, such as adaptation, evolution and revolution. For us + Change very much includes examining, challenging and changing the norms that shape the everyday life of individuals as well as society at large. To affect change through design can be about initiatives directed at products, systems or worldviews. We can choose to use design to affect change locally, regionally or globally, and with a focus on ecology, economy, human health and equality, or all of them simultaneously. Altogether + Change is about purposefully using design, and its inherent creativity, in order to achieve changes towards futures of sustainability.
+ Change is not only about what we study and why – it is also about how we do it. + Change pedagogy brings design, artistic expression and theory together. We believe we need students and staff groups to genuinely and in an interdisciplinary manner engage with the complexity of sustainability. Therefore, we have chosen to have an international intake on all our programmes and to deliver them in English. Together we make a + Change culture – dynamic, vibrant, creative and critical.
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This is our digital platform where you will find selected Works, News and Features coming from the Linnaeus University’s Design Department. It is a tool for us as students, educators and researchers to share, connect and re-connect ideas for + Change. We continuously work to make our + Change knowledge and practices available and searchable.
You can filter the database by general terms like: Course documentations, Final examinations; also by more specific conditions like: Video, Social media or Exhibitions.