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Rethinking
Design
& Its
Purpose

CONTENT LAB OF

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GloWD exists to integrate

design education with its practice and the market.

We realign knowledge, methods and design making for fresh design results. We build networks for creative communities who advance knowledge transformation for healthy commerce and universal wellbeing.

 

We live in the midst of a modern renaissance. 

Driven by global challenges requiring immediate new solutions, core changes are needed to facilitate new knowledge and processes, starting with education.

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What We Do

Provide a Preeminent Knowledge-Sharing Vehicle

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Creatively bridging the gap from:

Learning to Practice

Ideation to Actualization

Manual to Digital

The Established to The Transformed

How We Do It

Connection, Communication & Collaboration

Uniquely combining standard processes, people & topics

Employing latest digital technologies & know-how

Fostering awareness & acceptance to embrace change

Our Community

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Cooperating FOR THE FUTURE OF DESIGN

Globally We Design (GloWD) is a global education-based design leadership initiative. With a focus on human interaction, collaboration and communication, we revitalize and improve connections, processes and the built product.
 
Comprised of visionary design and expert leadership, GloWD facilitates leading-edge conversations for concrete educational outcomes.
Our results are foundationally applicable across all design sectors and applications. 
GloWD's solutions expand the reach, impact and viability of useful creativity into the future. Adopting universal and equitable values, GloWD exists to affect a positive global impact through and by design and its education.

Connection · Communication · Collaboration

to bridge by

research, education and practice for human betterment

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GloWD Overview

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About Globally We Design – GloWD

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About GloWD

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Why GloWD is Needed

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our platforms

Design is uniquely positioned to address the major global challenges facing the world today

GloWD's five multi-sector platforms porously interconnect and bridge research, practice and education through the "3C's" of cooperation, communication and connection

our educational programs

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Educators Forum

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WYDF Masterclasses

GloWD 2022 GEL-Lab Design Studio

GloWD 2022 GEL-Lab Design Studio
In Site u  |  Adapting and revitalizing rural communities
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Rug-It  |  Fostering welcome in a board game
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SENDSES  |  Experiencing global culture locally
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Kimoja Fountain  |  Creating public art with a social conscience
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Glo Wi  |  Building creative digital communities
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Foodniverse  |  Teaching kids the culture through food
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Space Talks  |  Supporting adolescent mental health
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Hiraeth & Ukraine: Healing in Motion Refugee Project Combo | 2022 GEL-Lab Design Studio
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"It was great to see students [from across the world] find common ground and then steer the project with their own enthusiasm and diverse skillsets."

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"It stretched me in a personal way, making me aware of my own limits."

"It was completely virtual, and it gave the opportunity for participants to collaborate with students from around the world in real time; to connect with other people who have a similar passion as your own. It really opened my eyes to the world and that it is so much more than the small bubble where I live and work."

2019 Johannesburg Forum
2018 Singapore Forum

OFFERINGS THROUGH PLATFORMS + PROGRAMS

Global Experimental Design Studios

From Concept to Built Work

Co-Design for Community-Built Projects

Internships and Apprenticeships

Scholarly & Applied Research

Fora, Symposia & Seminars

Emerging Professional Designer Recognition

Tailored Masterclasses for Life-Long Learning

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