what our community says
GloWD is a movement, bridging conceptual thinking and new design frontiers crucial at this turning point. It has incredible value in terms of not only being an innovative platform and school of thought, but a school of action.
GIANLUCA VERNIZZI
VERNICE, Italy / Thailand
The gap GloWD fills is positioning itself between the academy and industry – translating industry expectations and requirements back into the academy, but equally moving academic thought and concepts out to design practitioners.
MARIUS FOLEY
RMIT University
Australia
This is a global action – to come together and have a position through the GloWD Universal Design Education Charter that says 'these are the things we believe and the future of design should embody'. I really hope that the impact of this movement will be felt globally.
OLUWATENI SAMUEL ADELABU
Federal University of Technology Akure
Nigeria
The forum is needed because things are constantly changing and there is this whole notion of having to keep up and be five steps ahead. Designers need to have that mindset.
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NUR HIDAYAH ABU BAKAR
LASALLE College of the Arts
Singapore
GUSTAVO CURCIO
University of São Paulo,
Brazil
CLAUDIA GARDUÑO
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – UNAM, Mexico
GloWD is an activator. It aims to start conversations and projects. To go beyond what design does, which is often to talk with its own realm, and to make connections outside of that, broadening the set of references that we can draw on.
ELANA VAN DER WATTH
University of Johannesburg
South Africa
GloWD is trying to rethink the future of how design professions and design education should change – or should they change. Or, in what dimension they should change and to what extent they should cherish what they already have.
JUSSI ÄNGESLEVÃ
Universitãt der Künste
Finland / Germany
MARK RANDALL
Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA
LUIS EQUIHUA
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – UNAM, Mexico
STEPHEN SKORSKI
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA
DIANA ALBARRAN GONZALEZ
University of Auckland
New Zealand
The important role the GloWD Forum plays is to give us the ability to pause, put context on the table, and then put materials on the table that can be used and interpreted by everybody.
PEER SATHIKH
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
RALITSAH DIANA DEBRAH
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology – KNUST, Ghana