News: Invitation: Other economies – Other publications
Student work & Features
By:Amanda Lorentzon
This design project aims to shed light on the ongoing “renaissance” within the Kingdom of Glass in Småland, Sweden. Through observation and personal participation, it reflects on the transition happening in real-time – from what the Kingdom of Glass once was to what it currently is- and offers some thoughts about what might lie ahead. While zooming in and out from different lenses, one being the highly personal perspective as a native to the region of Småland, but also through the lens of a designer focusing on sustainable change. With the aspiration of mediating, how sustainable design principles could be implemented in the transition process.
Student work:Agora
By:Kinga Pesti
A mixed media video-installation about creative experimentation, ruin bars and political suppression in the arts.
Publications:The story behind an exhibited rag rug
By:Lena Håkanson
My research explores material-based making from within our +change educational context. In this text I describe my experience as a textile workshop manager at the Department of design and how an everyday activity, such as handling textile waste, can become fruitful educational vise and inspire artistically sustainable material work. The text was presented and my artistic work was exhibited at the BICCS 2023 conference. The text is published in Form Akademisk vol.16 no 4.
Dezeen School Shows: a project exploring the sustainable benefits of eating insects instead of traditional meat is included in this school show by Linnaeus University in Sweden.
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.