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Guest lecture, Carnegie Mellon University
Mar 21, 2021

Prof. G. Mauricio Mejía was invited to visit Silvana Juri & Molly Steenson's class on Persuasion. He talked about approaches to design for behavior change discussing concepts such as rhetoric, behavioral economics, and service design. March 31, 2021. Pittsburg, PA: Carnegie …
Presentation about design within the common good at SDN 2021
Feb 19, 2021

Next month, G. Mauricio Mejía, will present a paper coauthored with Ricardo Sosa (AUT) and Joni Adamson (ASU) and titled “Fluid worldviews: Designing within the common good” in the Swiss Design Network Conference – SDN2020 (online conference). In this paper, the authors argue …
Panel in transition design, Speculative Futures
Nov 18, 2020

Dr. Mauricio Mejía will be a panelist in the Transition Design Salon organized by Speculative Futures (New England and Austin chapters). He will share the Panel with Marcela Sabino - Head of Innovation, Museum of Tomorrow, Dimenji Onafuwa, PhD, MBA - Senior Researcher, Google, …
Mauricio Mejía will be guest speaker at DUT's Digifest 2020 (Durban, South Africa)
Oct 30, 2020

Transformation Lab's director Mauricio Mejía will be guest speaker at the Digital Festival – DIGIFEST2020 of the Durban University of Technology in Durban, South Africa. In his presentation scheduled on Nov. 5th, Dr. Mejía will talk about the Futures of Design. Watch the video …
New course DSC598 Strategic Design Futures, Spring 2021
Oct 29, 2020

Associate professor and Transformation Lab director Mauricio Mejía will teach a new course DSC598 Strategic Design Futures in Spring 2021. In this course, students will understand and practice exploring a variety of strategic design methods and mindsets with the aim of changing …
Presentation in the Design Education Panel at the Phoenix Design Week (AIGA)
Sep 25, 2020

In October 10th, G. Mauricio Mejía will discuss design education issues in the “ Design Education Panel " at the Phoenix Design Week , the annual conference of AIGA Arizona. The moderator will be Chirstina Carrasquilla, Director of Education in AIGA Arizona.
Research project on strategic design for health with a CIHRA grant
Jun 03, 2020

The Transformation Lab will participate in a health research project with a CIHRA grant (ASU's Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging). The project title is "Social Isolation Among the Elderly: Preventing Adverse Health Impacts" and its PI is Brad Doebbeling; G. …
Presentation about using behavioral theory in ideation at DRS 2020
May 22, 2020

In August, Aysha Alwazaan, G. Mauricio Mejía, Yumeng Xie and Daniel Fischer will present the paper “Incorporating behavioral theory in design ideation for changing sustainability behaviors" at the Design Research Society Conference – DRS2020, Brisbane, Australia. …
Presentation about the application of translation studies in transdisciplinary collaboration at ISEA
Feb 17, 2020

In October, G. Mauricio Mejía, Yumeng Xie and two collaborators of the University of Dallas (Roger Malina and Alex García Topete) will present the paper “Translating disciplinary practices for trans-sentient collaboration” in the International Symposium on Electronic Arts – …