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Dr. Mauricio Mejía participated in the creation of four "learning sparks" at ASU. These are short videos that explain specific concepts in diverse areas of research and practice. Dr. Mejía talked about his work on strategic design, design futures, and designing change. Designing …

Dr. Mauricio Mejía participated in the roundtables of the Compete Through Service Symposium organized by ASU's Center for Services Leadership, College of Business. He discussed his approach to addressing complex business and social challenges called Strategic Design Futures.

Dr. Mauricio Mejía takes on a new role to co-convene the special interest group Designing Change in the Design Research Society DRS. He will co-convene with Dr. Luca Simeone, Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark.Learn more: …

Dr. Mauricio Mejía will speak in ASU's College of Health Solutions on October 12th. He will discuss design approaches such as human-centered design, design thinking, co-design, and participatory design.Learn more: …

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, …