Join graphic designer, storyteller, social advocate, and educator Neeta Verma ’91 MFA in an engaging conversation about social design. What role can design play in addressing the problems of our time? How can the artist help us envision a better way? In a world that is evolving rapidly and becoming more global, economies are traversing many boundaries, distances are shrinking, cultures are converging and as a result many socio-economic challenges are becoming a shared predicament that we as humans face today in a ceaseless effort to humanize the dehumanized.
Rather than promote consumption, how can 21st-century design advance sustainability, equity, and responsible future products, systems, organizations, and societies? From working traditionally for the business model of satiating marketing needs and solving communication demands, the designers’ role has expanded from one of being purely a creative force “maker” to one of additionally serving as a “thinker,” facilitator, catalyst or a stakeholder in the newly defined social ecology.
