Design@Large

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.

Fall 2025: Designing Just Migrations

Faculty hosts: Megan Ybarra

Many people think we are in a crisis of migration, but few agree on what the crisis is or how to solve it. Justice-oriented design solutions to migration require multidisciplinary approaches to the cultural, political and physical production of borders, citizenship and belonging. How might design as a discipline participate in reimagining infrastructures to facilitate just futures for migrants? Designing Just Migrations brings together experts and practitioners to build a collective dialogue about how community organizing, impact litigation, speculative worldmaking, and accountable scholarship can help transform the current crisis towards collective power and just futures for migrants.

As always, Design@Large is open to the public. Register via our Eventbrite page. 

Past D@L

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Spring 2025: Design and Politics in Transition

Full Design@Large Video Archive