News: Community of Practice on eco-decolonial regeneration
News:IN (FORM) OUT
Student work & Features
An activist solution for these spaces that promotes pedestrian use
Student work:Pedestrian body parking artefact
By:Karina Zaitceva
Design activism and urban social movements inform my proposal to reclaim the public space as a pedestrian. I assembled a DIY pedestrian body parking artefactfrom old furniture, wheels, and cardboard boxes and placed it on the on-street car parking space. With my artefact as a pedestrian, I was using the public parking space and I was trying to bring the balance in the use of these shared collective areas.
Student work:GIRLPOWERTM, AND OTHER DECOYS
By:Emeli Cooper
An interrogation of patriarchal capitalism through counter-mapping, collage, and critical design.
By:Jula Sistek
A magazine documenting Berlins sticker culture aiming to question the mainstream perception on assigned cultural value.
Student work:MONO-MOJO – Facilitating dialogue through satire
By:Julian Jonsson
A satire-based participatory toolkit exploring how humor, absurdity, and collaborative play can help people engage with emotionally heavy societal topics through dialogue and shared reflection.
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.
Sharing is Caring
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.