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January 28, 2022

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Emergent Leadership: Community Design in Action

As a send off for the semester, our wonderful second years took the lead in blog writing this week! Read on to learn all about their final project for Leadership I, which served as a gift to our equally wonderful first year cohort. Thank you all for your hard work this semester! “The function of…

From Harm to Harmony: Designing Reformative Principles for Missionary Work

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Jaimie Cloud

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions, so the intention is absolutely necessary, but it's not enough.”

Emily Herrick

"Practitioners of DSI believe that the design practice should evolve beyond its colonist, capitalist past—where it has been harnessed solely for financial gain."

Asi Burak

“There is innovation, and then there is innovation with meaning, which is trying to change society for the better. That’s the innovation we’re looking for, it doesn’t have to be technological, it doesn’t need to be disruptive, it needs to be undertaken with society in mind.”

Kate Reed Petty

"Design for social innovation takes two types of courage: First, the courage to envision a better world, and second, the courage to do the hard work of thinking through everything it takes to actually make change happen."

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