News: Community of Practice on eco-decolonial regeneration
News:IN (FORM) OUT
Student work & Features
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.
Student work:Intra-Collectivity – A collection of principles towards a sustainable internal network communicated as a manual
By:Norman Lammers
My Thesis is about a collection of principles to create, maintain and use a sustainable branch- or organizational- internal communication. It communicated via an online manual with open access. The target group is the decision makers of small- to medium-sized organizations that aim for a sustainable transition. The manual itself does not serve as a front-end design example of a sustainable intranet.
By:Katrina Sambaryte
This project explores working norms, why health issues arise from efficiency and productivity working culture and how norm-criticality can serve as a facilitator to instil more socially sustainable behaviour through movement whilst working. With a focus on sustainable making, from local collaborations to material sourcing and regeneration of waste, Pippi serves as a template for sustainable design making.
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.