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New article published in Educational Gerontology. Three lab members are co-authors: Mauricio Mejía, Wenqi Zheng, and Yumeng Xie. In the article, we propose a preliminary model of selective participatory activities and report a case study in designing for social connections of …

Doctoral candidate Yumeng Xie will defend her Ph.D. dissertation on Friday, October 20th, in the Design South building, room 143. Her research is on design professionals’ collaboration perspectives, challenges, and strategies. 

Two graduates students, Kendon Jung and Kim Tsen, are lead authors in papers accepted for the International Association of Societies of Design Research IASDR 2023 in Milan. Jung, K. & Mejía, G. M. (2023) Are service designers the best positioned to design for sustainability? …

On July 27th, Dr. Mejía will participate in a panel organized by ASU's Center for Services Leadership . It was a "Thought Leadership Call" on artificial intelligence, chatbots, and service robots. Dr. Mejía discussed how design thinking/mindset would address the challenges of …

This summer, the Transformation Lab will host a group from Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, and Al-Quds Bard College, Palestine. This summer activity is part of the grant that the Open Society University Network funds. We will spend the last two weeks of June in Phoenix, …

On June 13th, Dr. Mejía will participate in a panel on Design Research for Equitable Futures at IDSA's Design Research Deep Dive event. He will discuss methods of futures research in design for justice . The moderator will be Nipuni Siyambalapitiya , and the other panelists are …

The article From researching to making futures: A design mindset for transdisciplinary collaboration was just published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. The co-authors are Dr. Mauricio Mejía, Dr. Danah Henriksen, Yumeng Xie, Dr. Roger Malina, Dr. Alex García-Topete, and …

The article Decision-making using heuristic evaluation in design for behavior change was published in the Journal of Design Research. In this study, Dr. Paula Escandón (U. Nacional de Colombia) and Dr. Mauricio Mejía report the development of a heuristic evaluation tool based on …

Wenqi Zheng has passed her PhD comprehensive exam and prospectus in the PhD in Design, Environment and the Arts. Her reseaech is about the design faciliation in co-design and understand how professionals or professional designers facilitate co-design in the industry. …