Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution theconference@mediaevolution.se https://videos.theconference.se Media Evolution is a membership organization that help media industries to innovate and grow. The videos in this podcast are generated at our annual conference The Conference and lectures we arrange throughout the year. http://www.mediaevolution.se en-us Visualplatform http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution Videos generated by Media Evolution Media Evolution is a membership organization that help media industries to innovate and grow. The videos in this podcast are generated at our annual conference The Conference and lectures we arrange throughout the year. http://www.mediaevolution.se media, music, games, publishing, future, social, tv, film, 334841 episodic no https://videos.theconference.se/files/rv0.0/sitelogo.gif https://videos.theconference.se http://videos.theconference.se/alice-rawsthorn-design-emergency <p><span><p><b>“Design is an agent of change which can help us make sense of what is happening and turn it to our advantage. Design has done this long before word has been invented to describe it.”</b><br></p><p><b><br></b></p><p>How can we approach an everyday challenge as a design project? How can people use design for activism? What is the potential of design as a tool for societal change? How can people working as professional designers work with all of us as co-designers of the future?</p><p><br></p><p>In her optimistic keynote session, Alice Rawsthorn describes multiple examples from her books “Design Emergency” and “Design as an Attitude'' that illustrate design as a way to respond to unforeseen circumstances and illustrate human tragedy. If design is being used responsively, empathically and intelligently, it can be a catalyst for positive change, reconstruct our lives and spark hope.</p><p><br></p><p>One of her most recent examples is a group of graphic designers that are hacking road signs in the Ukraine to disrupt transportation - and world community awareness - of war. They repurposed highway signs to mislead Russian soldiers by showing the only destination as “the Hague” - the seat of the International Court of Crimes against humanity.&nbsp;</p></span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/alice-rawsthorn-design-emergency"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968575/77192356/827e9a468a747bd4f8f091685d4b5a96/standard/download-8-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://videos.theconference.se/photo/77192356 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 09:08:15 GMT Alice Rawsthorn – Design Emergency “Design is an agent of change which can help us make sense of what is happening and turn it to our advantage. Design has done this long before word has been invented to describe it.”How can we approach an everyday challenge as a design project? How can people use design for activism? What is the potential of design as a tool for societal change? How can people working as professional designers work with all of us as co-designers of the future?In her optimistic keynote session, Alice Rawsthorn describes multiple examples from her books “Design Emergency” and “Design as an Attitude'' that illustrate design as a way to respond to unforeseen circumstances and illustrate human tragedy. If design is being used responsively, empathically and intelligently, it can be a catalyst for positive change, reconstruct our lives and spark hope.One of her most recent examples is a group of graphic designers that are hacking road signs in the Ukraine to disrupt transportation - and world community awareness - of war. They repurposed highway signs to mislead Russian soldiers by showing the only destination as “the Hague” - the seat of the International Court of Crimes against humanity. “Design is an agent of change which can help us make sense of what is happening and turn it to our advantage. Design has done this long before word has been invented to describe it.”How can we approach an everyday challenge as a design project?... Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution 41:36 <p><span><p><b>“Design is an agent of change which can help us make sense of what is happening and turn it to our advantage. Design has done this long before word has been invented to describe it.”</b><br></p><p><b><br></b></p><p>How can we approach an everyday challenge as a design project? How can people use design for activism? What is the potential of design as a tool for societal change? How can people working as professional designers work with all of us as co-designers of the future?</p><p><br></p><p>In her optimistic keynote session, Alice Rawsthorn describes multiple examples from her books “Design Emergency” and “Design as an Attitude'' that illustrate design as a way to respond to unforeseen circumstances and illustrate human tragedy. If design is being used responsively, empathically and intelligently, it can be a catalyst for positive change, reconstruct our lives and spark hope.</p><p><br></p><p>One of her most recent examples is a group of graphic designers that are hacking road signs in the Ukraine to disrupt transportation - and world community awareness - of war. They repurposed highway signs to mislead Russian soldiers by showing the only destination as “the Hague” - the seat of the International Court of Crimes against humanity.&nbsp;</p></span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/alice-rawsthorn-design-emergency"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968575/77192356/827e9a468a747bd4f8f091685d4b5a96/standard/download-8-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> 2022 design design as an attitude design emergency