Are you trying to change the world but sometimes feel disconnected or isolated in your efforts?

The Hopeful Design Union is a growing network of students, researchers and alumni from practice-oriented degree programs committed to social and ecological transformation.

It creates space for coordination, collaboration and long-term exchange across regions and institutions moving beyond individual programs to build collective structures.

The Union is organised through regional circles, regular online assemblies and annual in-person gatherings connected to initiatives such as By Design and By Disaster.

If you’re interested in connecting, we’d be glad to hear from you.

More info:
https://designdisaster.unibz.it/hopeful-design-union/

#HopefulDesignUnion #DesignForChange #EcoSocialDesign #CollectivePractice

🌎✊ DESIGN IS ALSO A POLITICAL ACT / EL DISEÑO TAMBIÉN ES UN ACTO POLÍTICO / O DESIGN TAMBÉM É UM ATO POLÍTICO

Voces de las Américas calls for designers, typographers, calligraphers, and visual artists to submit works where typography, lettering, or calligraphy become vehicles for social change.

Red Tipográfica es un espacio de expresión 🖌️, transformação 🌱, and connection 🧵

🔗 EN: https://www.redtipografica.com/en

#DesignForChange #TypographicResistance #VocesDeLasAmericas

Cuando las palabras explotan
y el arte habla por sí solo… ¡Boom!

#DigitalArt #MotionDesign #Illustration
#PoliticalSatire #CreativeDesign #boldart #Surrealism #ExplosiveVisuals
#GraphicDesign #ArtisticExpression
#SocialCommentary #VisualStorytelling
#ContemporaryArt #ThoughtProvokingArt
#DesignForChange

Resharing this since we're entering a new round. Take a deep breath, stable your footing, and get ready to get to work.

https://deardesignstudent.com/how-to-fight-fascism-dabdfeab1830

#FightFascism #ResistHate #DesignForChange

Our founder, @amarillongozi has completed their Fundamentals in Building with Bamboo course with BambooU. For us, this certification is a small step towards rethinking #sustainable #architecture from the material level, and a giant leap in developing a truly #vegan architectural practice.

Image: photograph of their final assignment; an architectural model of a vegan #art studio and residency concept.

#bambooarchitecture #sustainablebuilding #veganarchitecture #designforchange

With »Future Screenshots«, @mushon translates the future cone method into a participatory workshop format: participants create possible futures on paper using screenshots, locate them between probable, desirable and avoidable scenarios and use them to jointly develop ideas and strategies for shaping the present!

https://medium.com/@mushon/future-screenshots-cfcf842ad9cf

#FutureImagination #ParticipatoryDesign #PoliticalImagination #SpeculativeFutures #FutureThinking #DesignForChange #HopeInTheDark