A 7-week cohort learning

Designing Otherwise

Join us in September for an experiential, practice-based cohort for composting the dominant design practices we’ve inherited and seeding new possibilities

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A weekened intensive

Design Beyond Commerce

Design Beyond Commerce asks a simple question: what if design could help create more than things to buy?

Join us for a weekend intensive where we explore how we can shift beyond commerce and instead create centering Care, Community, Craft, Culture, and contentment.

This course is taught in partnership with the School of Radical Imagination.

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Monthly community events

Shifting Together: our monthly practice space

About once a month, we connect virtually to explore one DesignShift together. This is an opportunity to bring some of the theory into practice as well as meet with others who are exploring similar things. In these community sessions, we explore thinking about, being with, and shaping the Shifts as a collective force.

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Previous events

Collaboration as at the core of our work. Throughout the years, we’ve partners with many great individuals and organizations rethinking how we work and live.

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A conversation about DesignShifts

A behind-the-scenes look at DesignShifts. This conversation between Jayavanthi Gayathri, John V Willshire, and Ida Persson explains how DesignShifts took shape, its grounding in both theory and practice, and the impact it’s making as a growing community and movement.

The conversation was hosted by the STEPS collective in Spring of 2025.