News: Community of Practice on eco-decolonial regeneration
News:IN (FORM) OUT
Student work & Features
Student work:Talk like your village depends on it
By:Marlene Berkenhagen
“Talk like your village depends on it” aims to improve communication through service design methods in rural areas for long-lasting progress. Marlene Berkenhagen worked with the community of Kalvsvik and analysed their communication difficulties in order to help them create the change they want to see in their village.
Challenging the stigma around walkers by changing the aesthetics
By:Wictor Hulthén
The main function of the walker is to enable safe environment, and to improve the user’s independence. The ambition with the project would be to challenge the stigma around walkers by changing the aesthetics, by assigning new visual expression, and allowing personal costumization.
Student work:Assembling in the New Normal
By:Bijou Burns
“Assembling in the New Normal” is an investigation into how to achieve a sustainable balance between intimacy and safe distance in public space with a light and uplifting aesthetic.
Artefacts represents everyday affairs, they are significant yet they have become unconscious habits
By:Lauren Solomon
This project was conducted through a three-week fieldwork in the Philippines, through collaborations with organisations and education institutions. In these fieldwork I collected artifacts representing colonial legacies.
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.