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Design Research for Equitable Futures at IDSA
May 10, 2023

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 …
NSF grant to design the future of risk work in fire departments.
Jul 27, 2022

Dr. Mauricio Mejía will join Dr. Katie Pine (PI, ASU), Dr. Yunan Chen (UC Irvine), Dr. Melissa Mazmanian (UC Irvine), and Dr. Myeong Lee (GMU) to study data-driven risk prediction and management in fire departments and co-design speculative artifacts to predict and manage risk …
Conference presentation about anticipation in design justice
Jun 21, 2022

Dr. Mejía will present a conference paper in November about how to use anticipation to design just futures at the 4th International Conference on Anticipation 2022 at Arizona State University. The paper is titled "Anticipatory justice in design speculation." Abstract . All …
PEI to sponsor Dr. Mejía's strategic design course
Jan 07, 2022

This Spring semester, for the second time, Dr. Mejía will teach the graduate elective Strategic Design (oriented by) Futures course. The Partnership for Economic Innovation PEI will sponsor the course. Students will design visions and services for a citizen-centric smart region. …
Talking about strategic design at the Service Design Phoenix meetup
Nov 19, 2021

Dr. Mejía co-organizes the Sevice Design Phoenix meetup group. Last Tuesday Nov. 16th, the group met and Dr. Mejía talked about Futures-oriented strategic design . It was one of the three lighting talks. Nov 16 in the Center For Entrepreneurial Innovation.
New paper on service design and foresight
Aug 15, 2021

Dr. Mauricio Mejía joined two scholars in Denmark (Cathrine Løgager and Luca Simeone) to coauthor the forthcoming conference paper titled " A foresight-oriented service design approach to foster longer-term thinking and sustainable practices. " We study how service designers can …
Presentation: The role of future fiction in strategic design
Apr 09, 2021

Dr. G. Mauricio Mejía presented the talk "The role of future fiction in strategic design." Sandjar Kozubaev was the commenter. Speculative Futures Phoenix. Phoenix, AZ: Speculative Futures (held online). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-role-of-future-fiction-in-strategic-des...
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 …