News: Community of Practice on eco-decolonial regeneration
News:IN (FORM) OUT
Student work & Features
Publications:Time to Change
By:Miguel Salinas
I feel free from tradition and normative aesthetics, decoration is not longer a crime and the only requirement for form-content is to make sense in the context it is going to be placed, sustainability is inclusive and cover all tastes. I was not asking for the modern, I did not expected innovations either, it was what emerged from the students’ genuine interest of the Other that I focused on, and if the projects might be regarded as conventional, they were not easy tasks as I tried to relate them to the whole complexity of making change. We might indeed consider the whole module as an introduction to design defined as problem-solving activity, where the artifact is central, but taking any opportunity to question it, and ultimately reflecting on intentions rather than results was what I consider the applying design as a change agent, learning, and acquiring the +change mindset.
Welcome to view the final projects for the graduating class of 2023! 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.
Student work:Why do I shave?
By:Gréta Balog
‘Why do I shave?’ is an honest, personal yet collaborative artist book about body hair exploring the intertwined connections of social norms, capitalism and patriarchy.
Student work:Loom Orientation
By:Cajsa Karlsson
Questioning what objects are really made from and if craft and storytelling can change how we think of the materials surrounding us.
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.