News: Invitation: Other economies – Other publications
Student work & Features
By:Leo Hosp
In the scenario I create, National Geographic is announcing a year-long series on nonbinary identities, introducing the concept of intersectionality, and showing how oppressions are multi-layered and must be addressed in their full complexity. Life is simplified illustrated as climbing a mountain where people have different starting points, putting privilege and oppression into context.
Publications:A Collection of Change
By:Department of Design
In 2025 it is 10 years ago since we introduced the +change program and by making this collection we want to mark where we are. What have we done? What have we learned? What have we made? What was our challenges? What will be our challenges? It is a about pedagogics and other practices, about processes, works, courses, research, collaborations, learnings, earnings, makings, bakings, successes and failures. Basically, our individual roads to, through and with +Change.
Student work:yOu Can just stop Doing it
By:Bonnie Delord
yOu Can just stop Doing it is a digital booklet designed to help people with OCD share their experiences. It challenges common misconceptions by using illustrated short stories, each narrated by OCD itself, to explain different themes of the condition, making it easier to talk about OCD without fear, shame, or being misunderstood.
Student work:Do you dare to eat us?
By:Veronica Kudla Thuresson
A project that aims to reduce food waste in households by addressing the beauty standards of food items.
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.
Sharing is Caring
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.