News: Invitation: Other economies – Other publications
Student work & Features
Features:Graduation 2024: All programs
Welcome to view the final projects for the graduating classes of 2024! Within you will find a rich collection of all the diverse, creative, and brave ways that +Change students are already making a difference in the world today. The visual identity for the 2024 celebration is designed by VC+C 2023 alumn: Lauretta Kubbi.
Student work:NIVALIS – reclaiming the ride
By:Kinga Kurmanowska
A hand-built snowboard constructed from reclaimed birch, flax fiber and ash veneer, made in a shared university workshop. Nivalis explores how DIY and maker practices can connect individuals to snowboarding culture – a sport with deep DIY roots and a culture focused on self-expression. At a time when winters are getting shorter, gear more expensive and the making of equipment outsourced to the industry, building your own gear becomes a small act of reclaiming agency and the power to make.
Student work:Femotes – Feminist Emotes
By:Filippa Brodelius
Femotes is a project about bringing awareness to sexism in gaming by creating “emotes”, a common way of expression on the streaming website twitch.tv. The goal is to bring up a discussion in the gaming community to make minority groups of gamers more welcome in the community. The ten emotes made are a way to show support to streamers who have to deal with toxic behaviour and also to show that we stand for equality.
By:Elin Törnqvist
An audiovisual social media series consisting of three short films. The series discusses issues of the social pressure of beauty that society imposes upon women from a young age. In the films, we see how they battle within themselves with constant voices of disapproval. And how much of these hyper-unrealistic standards stem from social media and the overwhelming amount of impressions demanding women to look a certain way.
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.