Design & UX research Guest Lecture
We’re thrilled to share that our guest lecture with Jennifer M. Brennan and Alex Chao, Google’s leading UX Researchers, was a great success! During the session, MS SDM students had the opportunity to explore the world of Design and UX Research, gaining valuable insights into how these concepts are applied in the tech industry. The event provided a fantastic opportunity to deepen their understanding of the research field, with many participants benefiting from the expert advice and answers to their questions. A big thank you to everyone who joined us – it was truly an inspiring and enriching experience!
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Creating Connections MS SDM Fall 2024 Symposium
The first annual MS Strategic Design & Management Fall 2024 Symposium is coming up on November 22, at 1opm at The New School. This symposium will explore how Strategic Designers create connections within systems, among stakeholders, to new opportunities, in complex ecosystems, in communities, and around the world. Through panel discussions, participatory workshops, Pecha Kucha-style presentations, posters, and product demos, students will share project work and emergent discourses that serve to inform practices in strategic design. FOLLOW THIS LINK TO FIND PROGRAMING INFORMATION
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Good Interventions ’24 – Strategic Design Exhibition
Good Interventions is an annual exhibition of intangible design projects that address the pressing issues of our time by bringing together the power of design and social sciences. For its third edition, fifteen projects have been selected to be exhibited. The program is organized by the School of Design Strategies and will take place in its permanent exhibition as a portal in the Platform of Design Strategies. 2024 Discussant: Liz McFall, University of Edinburgh Designers: Abbey Manliclic | Aman Pathak | Andreu Belsunces | Anne-Li Liljeblad | Antonio Araujo | Anupama Krishnan | Barbara Darian | Chloé de Montgolfier | Emma Kowalczy |…
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Bindu- Building a community around crafts
The organised handicraft sector exploits craftspeople, forcing repetitive work under middle-men who take most profits and stifle creativity. Bindu addresses this by connecting craftspeople directly to the market, promoting inclusion, co-creation, and dialogue. It fosters a loyal community, bridges gaps between craftspeople, NGOs, trade unions, and the government, and preserves traditional crafting techniques. Designer: Souvik Mukherjee RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’24 EXHIBITION
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Andam: Design for Disaster Preparedness
Andam (meaning prepare in Cebuano) is a gamified electronic build kit designed to be used by multigenerational families. The kit facilitates an interaction in which users collaboratively build a solar light and radio (post-disaster essentials), whilst sharing lived experience of disaster and preparedness recommendations, prompted by instructional cards. This project was conducted in collaboration with the University of the Philippines, Cebu, and the Lapu-Lapu Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office. Designer: Tori Simpson RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’24 EXHIBITION
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Augmented City: towards a more humane and empathetic smart city
Augmented City aims to bring collective memory to life by integrating the personal histories of its inhabitants into the city’s physical spaces. Through participatory technology, it enables citizens to share their geolocated memories on a cloud-based platform using images, texts, audio, videos. Users can experience these memories through mobile devices at the locations where they originated, allowing for an immersive and more inclusive contextual exploration of the city’s social reality. Designers: Polise Moreira De Marchi Veronica Pontes Enrique Trevelin Lucas Falcão Artacho Mario de Castro Yuri Lamonica Chuk Michele Alves de Freitas Batista Wesley dos Santos Antonio Araujo Bárbara Dariano…
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Community Enabler
The design project, Community Enabler, aims to transform Grönsakstorget from a parking lot into an inclusive, vibrant summer square. Through 10 weeks of prototyping and public engagement, we explored the site and configurations in collaboration with the municipality of Gothenburg. The focus was on accessibility, creativity, and community input to create a dynamic space for social interaction, artistic expression, and cultural exchange, reflecting the community’s diverse voices and needs. Designers: Anne-Li Liljeblad Inês Moreira Thilo Pantring RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’24 EXHIBITION
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Design’s Role for Socially Responsible Behavior in Public Places
The project is a 16-week M.Des research inquiry into why social responsibility exists, how it results in conflicts, the connection between design and social responsibility, and what might be missing in current universal frameworks for designing strategies. The framework/tool developed hence helps users classify and evaluate the specific actors and contextual factors involved in the acts of spitting chewing tobacco (Gutka), littering, and urinating in public places. Designer: Sharl Pear RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’24 EXHIBITION
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Longevity Planning Blocks (LPBs)
The global population is ever changing; living longer than ever before, society calls for new and creative tools and services to serve a population of adults living longer – and better – than ever before. Preparedness, including financial preparedness, is imperative for quality of life in older adulthood. The financial planning industry, uniquely positioned to serve this growing population of older adults, could benefit from innovative design changes to better serve their clients. This, we explored using tangible design artifacts and gaming frameworks and theories to transform financial planning services to make them more inclusive and enjoyable. Design for Longevity…
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Meaning Making
“Meaning Making” is a card game that aims to create a safe and supportive space for children to express themselves through drawing without fear of judgment or rejection. It tries to foster acceptance and confidence via collaboration. With a set of 36 cards that use the simple interlocking mechanism, these cards can generate over 1600 abstract shapes that are open to interpretation. These shapes appear on both sides of the cards allowing an opportunity for two people to draw their own version. Designer: Yashika Munjal RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’24 EXHIBITION
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