We live on the precipice of a modern renaissance
Never before have we lived through such dynamic change facilitated by technology
At our core we are human
Our Neanderthal essence craves love, security, community and belonging
COLLABORATING FOR THE FUTURE OF DESIGN
Globally We Design (GloWD) is a global thought-leadership initiative generating and disseminating new design thinking, practice and processes to tackle evermore pressing and contemporary problems facing humanity at large.
Comprised of visionary designers and design educators, GloWD facilitates leading-edge conversations and connections across all design disciplines, to achieve outcomes that expand the reach, impact and viability of the profession into the future. Adopting universal values, GloWD strives to affect a positive global impact through and by design.
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, we are working to turn uncertainty into progress. Positioned to push the frontier of foundational creativity for all design and its applications, GloWD is taking this opportunity to refresh our initiatives and to remain a step ahead of this transformational change.
Planning and implementation for our GEL-L Studio, currently set to run September 2020 (see below), is underway. The Charter-driven publication, rethinking all foundational education, continues to evolve.
The next ReDesignEd Educators Forum is currently scheduled for March 2021, hosted by CENTRO in Mexico City, but we are keeping an eye on on-going COVID activity and will finalize all details later in the year.
The WYDF and WYD are currently in discussion.
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our platforms
Design is uniquely positioned to address the major global challenges facing the world today
GloWD recognizes that nothing starts without education, therefore our springboard programs have been focused on the transformation of how design is learned and what should be taught
Next-GenNarrative (NGN)
Creative Leadership Think-Tank
NGN (pronounced engine) distills the "big issues" to their essence to propose new design solutions. Asks how design must change to solve them.
ReDesignEd
Rethinking Design Education
Identifies, explores, redefines and codifies a new vision for the education of future generations of designers and for the benefit of society as a whole.
Programs include
EDUCATORS FORUM
GLOBAL EXPERIMENTAL LIVE-LAB (GEL-L) STUDIO
WORKED
TEAM RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
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World Youth Designer Forum (WYDF)
World Youth Designer (WYD)
Cultivates, shapes and recognizes new and emerging design talent, methods and means globally and collaboratively.
CoDesign
From Concept to Reality
Consultancy where ideas, theories and propositions generated in GloWD platforms are applied to real-world clients and projects.
GloWD EXPO
Provides necessary intersection of design and commerce, showcasing progressive creative realities, possibilities and potential.
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GloWD 2020
COVID-19
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, we are working to to turn uncertainty into progress. Positioned to push at the frontier of foundational creativity for all design and its applications, GloWD is taking this opportunity to refresh our initiatives and to remain a step ahead of this transformational change.
Planning and implementation for our GEL-L Studio, currently set to run September 2020 (see below), is underway. The Charter-driven publication, rethinking all foundational education, continues to evolve.
The next ReDesignEd Educators Forum is currently scheduled for March 2021, hosted by CENTRO in Mexico City, but we are keeping an eye on on-going COVID activity and will finalize all details later in the year.
The WYDF and WYD are currently in discussion.
A collaborative, live-time, cross-continent student project conducted via share shared digital platform
EVENTS
ReDesignEd Educators Forum 2019
20-23 November 2019
Johannesburg, South Africa
Our third annual ReDesignEd Educators Forum was hosted by the University of Johannesburg's Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture in South Africa. Our select global network of design education and professional leadership, along with local emerging educators and professionals, explored the provocation "What We Don't (or Can't) Teach - Bridging the Knowledge Gap", while reviewing ongoing research, adding to the Universal Design Education Charter (UDEC) and developing new applications and research. Learn more >>
2019 Forum Outcome in South Africa Builds and Expands on Universal Design Education Charter (UDEC)
The 2019 Johannesburg Declaration was the direct outcome of GloWD's 2019 Educators Forum. It is an addendum and supplemental document to be used in concert with the Universal Design Education Charter (UDEC), Singapore 2018. This Declaration speaks to the areas of diversity, situational awareness, expectational relationship of the designer and the educator, as well as, evaluation and assessment. More >>