News: Community of Practice on eco-decolonial regeneration
News:IN (FORM) OUT
Student work & Features
By:Iona Xhafa
This project asks: “Can I create an exploratory process of collaboration and 3D visualized skincare packaging to reflect skincare users’ values and needs?” I followed a collaborative design process to intervene in the current state of things by creating sustainable skincare packaging that makes environmental, economic, cultural and societal impact.
Student work:Reimagining Bäckparken – A Community-Centric Approach to Playground Design in Alstermo, Sweden
By:Sabina Muric
This project focuses on finding a participatory design method that will maximize user involvement in redesigning a local playground. By collaborating with Alstermo’s residents – children (the user) and prioritizing local needs, it fosters community engagement and aims to bridge the gap between the community and municipal authority, inspiring a more balanced user – expert relationship.
An explorative investigation into the meaning of crisis
Student work:Crisis retold
By:Rebecka Mirai Nemoto Nilsson
This design research project delves into the complexity surrounding Sweden’s national emergency preparedness and defence to war crisis on a holistic level. In 2018, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap) distributed 4.8 million emergency preparedness defence brochures ‘If Crisis or War Comes’ (Om krisen eller kriget kommer) to the Swedish population.
By:Yanki Lee
My story went back to 2000, when I decided to shift the focus of my career from architectural design to design research, specifically design for social inclusion at the Royal College of Art’s Helen Hamlyn Centre (2000–2012). During my two decades of international experience in design research on social inclusion, unlike many designers who aim their expertise towards solving the problems, my design practice is evolving constantly and responsive: from issue-based to research-driven, designer-centred to community-driven, human-centred to life-inspired.
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.