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Student work & Features
Student work:Blood of the Earth
By:Luca Bee Reinhold
The Blood Of The Earth Leporello is an interactive exhibition that brings visitors closer to the metal iron and its extractivist sides. Functioning as a tool to inform about complexities, give voice to marginalized stakeholders and raise questions about the future of mining.
“What is the meaning of Airbnb in Växjö?”
By:Yunquan Liu
In my thesis project, I have tried to analyze how Airbnb reflects the social environment in big cities. My research aim is to let more and more tourists and local residents enhance the awareness that Airbnb need to be used in a right/better way through criticizing impact on social environment reflected by Airbnb.
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.
We need to be as we call it ‘Snål’
By:Gabriella Peterhoff
Over consumption by humans must end as Earth’s natural resources are critically depleting and exhausted. We need to reduce our consumption in order to respect and fit within the planetary boundaries. This means we need to be, as in Sweden we call it, Snål which is a Swedish adjective with multiple meanings; resourceful, frugal, stingy etc. We must adapt our lifestyles to ensure our survival as a species.
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.