OUR WORK
From harm to healing through theory, practice, and making.
Today, a lot of design is causing harm. The way we design our buildings is creating inhabitable cities. The applications we build are contributing to an expanding mental health crisis. The messages we craft are making people buy more while feeling less and less satisfied.
As we find ourselves in the interrelated crises of climate change, food scarcity, energy depletion, global poverty, and loss of meaning it’s easy to see the need for shifts and transitions. We can’t continue with business as usual.
Our work centers shifting in a time of earthly shifts. We think about the now, near and far by challenge the status quo, imagine better futures, and co-create the DesignShifts needed to aid the transition towards a better tomorrow.
OUR METHODS
We explore each DesignShift in theory, through practices, and by making.
In theory: Learning through research and dialogue
DesignShifts started as small provocations asking big questions about the future of design. Now, we’re exploring ways that we can dive deeper into each topic and explore the theory behind some of the thinking. On our Substack, we dive deeper into each topic.
Together with other talented creatives, we host intimate, practice sessions exploring how we can practice shifting together. Each session centerers one overarching theme. We explore thinking about, being with, and shaping the Shifts as a collective force.
Through practice: Collaborative design spaces.
By making: Stories, tools, and experiences.
We develop tools, experiences, and multi-sensory narratives that help people engage with and embody these shifts. This includes publications, installations, and interactive formats that bring these concepts to life.
Tools in the making: Cards, book, Zines.
