News: Invitation: Other economies – Other publications
Student work & Features
Publications:Companion prototyping
By:Eric Snodgrass (together with Miranda Moss, Daniel Gustafsson and Helen Pritchard)
Electric Field is one of several small scale prototypes created by Miranda Moss, Daniel Gustafsson, Helen Pritchard and myself as part of our Regenerative Energy Communities research project. This three year research project began from a position of wanting to support a local university adjacent farm site with an energy infrastructure of one kind or another. In the care for practices of farming, food and community that we saw on this student-driven farm, we, as educators, artists, designers and technology geeks wanted to find a way to bring our passions into this space of grassroots community growing.
Student work:Bee Me and the rest of Nature
By:Cornelie Amber Gons
A holistic experience for humans and other types of nature through the materiality of fallen branches and Birch trees. Foraged from the same naturreservat the designs are placed back into, closing the loop. Changing the beehotel from an artificial anthropocentric object to an ‘all-[place-specific]-natural’ bio-diversifying aid that can also help people build emotional intelligence.
Student work:Hope to cope – Cards to care for the hope
By:Merete Kryhlmand Christensen
What coping mechanisms do you make use of when you hear scary climate emergency facts? Hope to Cope is a card game developed in collaboration with climate activists to practice healthy coping mechanisms for heavy climate emotions.
By:Xiaoyi (Aria) Shen
The concept of ‘Border Creature’ here is to highlight the mode of multispecies’ co-existence that has been buried under the ubiquitous understanding of being human. It refers to beings that inhabit the realm of ‘bare life’, are often seen on the margin of the human realm, are often treated inhumanly by humans, and are often overlooked by the majority.
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.