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Student work & Features
Student work:& this is not a doomscroll
By:Britte Lillevars
A creative exploration presented as an artist book that investigates scrolling paralysis from a personal perspective. It reflects on the compulsive phone use and questions how we can rethink our relationship with digital devices. Through visual metaphors and storytelling, the project invites to reclaim phones as intentional tools rather than sources of distraction and anxiety.
Artificial lighting is used to compensate for the lack of daylight
Student work:Lighting student’s well-being – Creating a socially sustainable light for students in Scandinavia
By:Armelle Grubb
This project is an exploration of how artificial lights are used to create atmospheres in a space, and how they enhance a student’s well-being. The focus is placed on students in Sweden, specifically those in one-room apartments.
By:Sara Gottschalk
Collaborative design processes beyond the project, engagements, has been one focus of my doctoral research in participatory design for sustainable urban transition. In this reflection I unpack the of responsible design engagement and illustrate it with a visual model. This text is written for design students interested in +Change design-work with civil communities and is the initial reflection-on-action of a forthcoming longer text.
Redesigning spaces into places that improve their community value
By:Michael Czarny
This project explores how placemaking principles and cosmopolitics advance tactical urbanism to create meaning and sustainability in spaces making them great places. Experimental interventions around Linnaeus University campus are used to put these concepts into practice.
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.