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The Design@Large speaker series highlights a different central theme within design during each fall, winter, and spring quarter to inspire attendees and showcase the brightest minds tackling issues impacting humanity. Design@Large is a course at UC San Diego and is also open to the public as a way of sharing cutting-edge research and innovative insights with a wider audience. Undergraduate students can sign up for DSGN 119 and graduate students can enroll in DSGN 219 (cross-listed with COGS 229 and CSE 219).
Design@Large was pioneered as a collaborative effort with UC San Diego faculty who shared the collective vision of drawing together a community of individuals from various design disciplines. A new wave of societal challenges, cultural values, and technological advancements is creating exciting opportunities for designers everywhere to make a global impact, and Design@Large provides the chance to learn about these opportunities as they emerge.
Faculty hosts: Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió and Lilly Irani
Who should design serve? How does design work in a crisis, and also recognizing that some people have been living in crisis for hundreds of years? And how might we reimagine design as a radical discipline for dialogue and action? From reinterpreting legal histories and theories that enable the design of place, to redesigning food distribution systems around food and land justice, to transforming what it means to be family, design offers many ways to transform our relationships with ourselves, each other and our environment. Design and Politics in Transition offers inspiration, theory, and guidance on a variety of design practices and epistemologies that together help us transition toward different, more equitable worlds where all can thrive–even during historical moments of political and social strife.
As always, Design@Large is open to the public. Register via our Eventbrite page.
04/09/25
"A Conversation with Danielle Dean"
04/16/25
"Subverting Digital Colonialism: Palestinian Internet Cultures and Practices pre- and post-Oct. 7"
04/23/25
"The Heyday Berkeley Roundhouse: Amplifying Indigenous California"
05/14/25
"Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future"
05/21/25
"Confronting Carbon Form"
05/28/25
"A Foodscape for Equity, Ecology, and Circular Economy"
A lecture series, an open community event, and a video series viewable on YouTube.
Watch all recorded D@L series here: