Design for Collectives: Rethinking design for collective being

business, careers, education, arts · EN

We design by abstracting real people into manageable constructs to make the design processes easier. But with just this one lens, we lose sight of the collective context - the relationships, interconnections and impacts that shape how people live. Design for Collectives is a new podcast exploring what happens when we design in isolation, disconnected from the collective context where people actually exist and interact. Not to provide answers, but to open up conversations about what we might be missing and what might shift if we reframe design with collective contexts in mind. Hosted by Professor Sonja Oliveira (Associate Dean and Professor in Architecture and Sustainability Design Innovation, University of Strathclyde) and Anna Chatzimichali (Associate Professor in Engineering Design, University of Bath), each episode features designers, researchers and practitioners wrestling with these qu