News: Invitation: Other economies – Other publications
Student work & Features
Student work:Taste of Home
By:Paul Allegro
Taste of Home is a visual communication project exploring Chinese diasporic identity through food. Using interviews and augmented reality posters, it shares personal stories from first- and second-generation Chinese individuals, highlighting how food becomes a powerful link to memory, belonging, and home.
Student work:The Guide: A Journey Through Holistic Healing
By:Stefan Topias Johanson
Through my graphic novel, I have created and illustrated a world with a more holistic approach to life where natural and traditional medicines continue to be the standard. My graphic novel critiques westernized modern approaches to medicine and care and contradicts the demonization of holistic healing otherwise known as the “witch hunt” through writing, imagery and storytelling.
By:Michaela Edlund
An illustrated booklet on emotional and ecological layers within a Swedish forest.
Student work:Bakom Rubrikerna
By:Saga Arndt
Bakom Rubrikerna (Behind the headlines) is a project that explores the concept of selective sympathy and what role media, especially newsprints, have in recreating harmful narratives around certain refugees.
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.