🐛💫🦋 Welcome to TRANSFORMING WORLDS!
🎧 In this episode we talk about Transforming THE PERIPHERY with Erica Dorn
👒 Erica Dorn holds a PhD in Transition Design from Carnegie Mellon University and is the founder of Suburb Futures where she works to make civic life necessary, participatory, just, and fun. Her current research examines relational design practices aimed at promoting depolarization and belonging in an age of plurality and extremes.
🏙️ In this episode she talks about the periphery, the spaces in between, how suburbs are different than cities and what they have in common, and the changing role of (transition) design.
👓 About Erica Dorn
Erica Dorn is an Assistant Professor of Design and Innovation at Oregon State University. She is the founder of Suburb Futures, a collaborative social design practice focused on building civic infrastructure and fostering equitable, thriving futures in peripheral places. Her current research examines relational design practices aimed at promoting depolarization and belonging in an age of plurality and extremes. She has held senior leadership roles in the public and private sectors, spanning community economic development, social impact finance, and business and leadership education. Erica earned her PhD in Transition Design from Carnegie Mellon University, is on the Board of Directors for Third Millennium Alliance, a rainforest conservation organization in Ecuador, and is a Senior Democracy Fellow with Humanity in Action.
🔗 Links
💡 Design and Innovation at Oregon State University https://business.oregonstate.edu/programs/undergraduate/design-innovation-management
Suburb Futures and The Warm Cookies of the Revolution: https://warmcookiesoftherevolution.org/suburb-futures/
In the episode she references:
👉 Adrienne Maree Brown: https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/emergent-strategy/
👉 Michael Jones: https://www.thesoulofplace.com
👉 Judy Wicks: https://www.judywicks.com
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