Stories

By Adam Zeiner

Reposted from UT School of Design and Creative Technologies 2019 Journal

By Stephanie Morgan

Reposted from UT School of Design and Creative Technologies 2019 Journal

By Virginia Waldrop, Katherine Spitz, Taylor Smyth, Dainon Miles, Woody Green, Rachel Fresques, Jacquelyn Callahan, Anatoli Berezovsky, Francisco Barrios

Reposted from UT School of Design and Creative Technologies 2019 Journal

The Design Institute for Health's 2020 cohort of doctor designers, the "Three Medsketeers," graduate from Dell Medical School this month. While the world shut down, these students dove in to keep momentum on design that makes a difference in people’s lives.

Jessica Murray graduated with an M.A. in Design focused on Health. This 10-month Master's program offered in collaboration between Dell Medical School and the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin inspires change-makers to reimagine health care through the lens of design.

It's been an eventful few months for Associate Professor of Design Kate Catterall. 

A forthcoming LACMA exhibition, Better Living Through Science: The Home of the Future, 1920–1984, recently received grant funding from the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time 2024 initiative which will help support research and curatorial work on the project over the next few years.

An adjunct professor dually appointed at The University of Texas School of Law and McCombs School of Business, Keegan Warren-Clem, J.D., LL.M., challenges students and residents to explore connections between health, poverty, and unmet legal needs.

Tamie Glass is guiding the inaugural cohort for the M.A. in Design focused on Design in Health in her courses, Designing for Human Behavior this fall and Design Futures in the spring. She made time to discuss her thoughts on design, joy and food.

Design Thinking is a vital tool for the wicked problem of social justice, as its human-centered methodologies are diversity-, equity-, and inclusion-centered. However, the history of Design Thinking often spotlights the work of a few (white and male) writers, crafting a homogenous and linear creation story. As a way to de-center whiteness and craft a fuller, deeper understanding of Design Thinking’s epistemologies, its tenets, and its potential, Cassidy C Browning weaves strands of practices and theories from women of color, feminist thought, queer people of color, Hip Hop, and Jazz. In order to maximize the liberatory potential of Design Thinking, this article is grounded in the current U.S. moment, identifies specific practices to employ, and questions who is considered a designer, what counts as design, and what histories we choose.