News: Invitation: Other economies – Other publications
Student work & Features
Exploring the resistance of Arab women in an ISIS dominated area from their private spaces
By:Hayfaa Chalabi
Your exotic, your victim, your terrorist is a mixed media project that aims to challenge the western stigma of Arab women in areas of conflict. The illustrations explore the resistance of Arab women in an ISIS dominated area from their private spaces. The project uses the same characteristics that fall under the stereotypical representations of Arab women in the British and American news sources to challenge the stigma of classifying these women as; the terrorist, the exotic, and/or the victim.
I hope an inner or outer dialogue would emerge
By:Naďa Okruhlicová
Because of self-reflection, a contemplative and compassionate state will emerge. You should be able to look at things with levity and empathically approach any situation. Just stop for a moment and come visit the stories of urban Slovaks, their rituals and traditions from the environment they live in. Stop, deeply listen and contemplate. What is your story going to be?
Student work:The burden of being a society
By:Allis Ohlsson
Through my illustrations I wanted to bring awareness to our unstable ways of building societies, awaken thought about other options of societal structure and make people question whether a collapse needs to be a part of our culture.
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.