The School of Design and Creative Technologies invites all students, faculty, and staff to a Popsicle Pop-Up Party to kick off the new school year! Beat the heat with a cold treat, meet your professors, play bingo for prizes, and grab some SDCT swag.
International resilience expert Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal provides practical tools to effectively address challenges, complexity, and change.
Lauren Lee McCarthy explores how much control should we have over a birthing person’s body, and over a life before it begins? Presented in partnership with the Museum of Human Achievement and Fusebox Festival.
SDCT invites the Austin Design Community to a lecture with speaker, educator, equity designer and DEI specialist Antionette Carroll.
Learn more about career opportunities at Powerhouse Animation in this installment of Career City Limits.
The design industry’s relationship to the field of business has long been established and continues to become further entangled each year. But designers aren’t just satisfied with only disrupting the business sector—they’re keen to disrupt the social sector too. Unfortunately, the weaknesses baked into the discipline of design (that have been present from the start) are readily exposed when designers enter complex social issues and treat them like any other human-centered innovation challenge. The lack of a moral framework, let alone a set of ethical guidelines, put designers at great risk of doing more harm than good.
Emergent Mindsets for Sustainable “Impact”
As the field of design has evolved, so have the complex environments where social-impact designers work to apply their expertise. For practitioners in this field, the design of a promising intervention is often outmatched by the pace upon which society “uncovers” a new dilemma; in many instances, the source of this issue can even be traced to an older, now unsustainable design-intervention. In collaboration with the ways many of us have started to adopt more environmentally-friendly practices for material-use and manufacturing processes, this talk will provide an overview of important attitudes and approaches we should consider in an effort to not only promote “social-sustainability” but a positive “impact” in people’s lives.
Interested in career opportunities at Expedia Group? This is your opportunity to learn more, speak directly with them, and ask questions! Brought to you by Industry Relations in the School of Design and Creative Technologies.
Interested in career opportunities at SEED (EA)? This is your opportunity to learn more, speak directly with them, and ask questions! Brought to you by Industry Relations in the School of Design and Creative Technologies.
Interested in career opportunities at Powerhouse Animation? This is your opportunity to learn more, speak directly with them, and ask questions! Brought to you by Industry Relations in the School of Design and Creative Technologies.