Change Agents — Blueprints for Interinstitutional Collaborations & Closing Conference 2024 @ Elisava

The Erasmus+ Change Agents project has released its publication Change Agents — Blueprints for Interinstitutional Collaborations (open access). The publication aims at empowering design educators, as well as students, NGOs, and other stakeholders. The idea is to advance social design practices and foster meaningful societal change. It offers sets of methods, ethical insights, and actionable strategies for social design and beyond.

The project brought together five universities and two NGOs, including the Berlin University of the Arts/Weizenbaum Institute, MOME Budapest (lead), the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Elisava School of Design and Engineering, the Estonian Academy of Arts, and Shenkar – Engineering. Design. Art.

The collaboration was grounded in the Social Design Network, founded in 2020 to strengthen the knowledge base of social design. With contributions from renowned researchers, teachers and practitioners, it supports the advancement of relevant education and research across the globe.

Change Agents is co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ program.
Change Agents project partners are members of the Social Design Network.

The Blueprints were recently launched during the closing conference hosted by ELISAVA in Barcelona. This conference marked the conclusion of the Erasmus+ Change Agents project launched in 2022. At the conference, Elizabeth Calderón Lüning (DemSoc) and Bianca Herlo (UdK/Weizenbaum Institute) presented the Berlin pilot: A series of workshops and public events that critically engaged in questions of power relations and new understandings of knowledge.

© Pictures below: David Sabaté, Elisava