Education

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Participant Case Studies

Participants of Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, October 17-19, 2010, each contributed case studies of a class, project or program that bridges design and social innovation.

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Participants

This outlines the participants of the Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, which was held October 17-19 2011, in Falls Village CT.

James Lapides|Collections

Graphic Intervention

A slideshow containing images from Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010, now on view at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

The Editors|Essays

Lella and Massimo Vignelli: A Celebration

Vignelli Celebration: The opening and dedication of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies, set to open September 16, 2010 at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Ernest Beck|Report

The World as Our Studio

Report on Worldstudio's hybrid business model for collaborating with for-profit and not-for-profit clients (while supporting a foundation).

Constantin Boym|Essays

Teaching in a Time of Uncertainty

Meditation on the doubt creeping into today's design practice.

Vera Sacchetti|Interviews

"But Teacher! That’s Not Design!"

Interview with Portuguese communication designer Barbara Alves about teaching in Mozambique.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Teach For All

Report on Teach For All, an $8.6 million program to expand educational opportunities throughout the world created by Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach For America, and Brett Wigdortz, founder of Teach First in the U.K.

Dominique Browning|Reviews

Loose Canon

Review of "Why Design Now?" Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial, New York. Through January 9, 2011.

Kate Andrews|Interviews

Dori Gíslason

Interview with design educator Halldór Gíslason about his work in Mozambique.

William Drenttel|Projects

Design for Change Contest

Kiran Bir Sethi is a designer, teacher, principal, advocate and social entrepreneur. Now her “Design for Change Contest,” a recent initiative that swept India in 2009, is expanding globally.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Category Error

My son is now at the age when he wants to put things in categories, and I struggle to define the categories of automobiles that extend beyond SUV or sedan.