Design Is Love • Durell Coleman, founder and CEO of DC Design, uses design to take on poverty, homelessness, and mass incarceration.

Explore how a d.school alum's design education drives his work in communities across America.

For Durell Coleman, the d.school was where a single assignment changed everything. 

Asked to list 100 problems in the world, he stopped at number 67—the moment he looked beyond his own experience and saw problems that design could help solve. That insight powers DC Design, his social impact firm built on one simple but radical principle: you can't design for people you don't talk to.

Credits

Thanks to Second Peninsula for producing this video, and to the d.school’s academic team and teachers for guiding generations of designers.