Book Overview

Who are you? What motivates you as a changemaker? What forces are preventing you (and others) from thriving? These questions are essential to the work of creating social change, and they are exactly what this book asks you to explore.

Designer and educator Lesley-Ann Noel shares the essential design strategies for creating lasting impact. This work starts with knowing yourself and builds outward into making change in your community and the larger world. Design Social Change gives you the tools to tailor your approach to design, considering your history, personality, ethics, and goals for a better future.

In this book, the strategies for change are based on equity and fairness, understanding your own role, and seeking justice. These strategies demonstrate how to use anger, joy, and empathy as inspiration and to understand what people need to thrive. These new approaches can inspire change using the tools of design, helping you craft changes that are relevant to you and move the impact of your work toward a more just and equitable future.

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Authors and contributors

Lesley-Ann Noel

Author

Lesley-Ann Noel focuses on equity, social justice, and the experiences of people who are often excluded from design education, research, and practice. She teaches at North Carolina State University. Formerly, Lesley-Ann was the associate director of Design Thinking for Social Impact at Tulane University, as well as a lecturer at Stanford University and the University of the West Indies.

Che Lovelace

Artist

Che Lovelace is an artist based in Port of Spain, Trinidad. His art originates primarily from his experiences of living and working in Trinidad and Tobago. His paintings are strongly rooted in depicting the dense, highly charged layers of the Trinidadian landscape, which he sees as physical, social, and spiritual. He attended Queen’s Royal College and received his fine art training at l’École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de la Martinique. Che currently lectures at the University of the West Indies in the Creative Arts department.