A you may already know, Core-fave Jon Kolko has launched a new educational institution, the Austin Center for Design , in Austin, Texas. There’s a virtual open house coming up at the start of April, so you may want to check it out. Here’s the pitch: The program exists to transform society through design and design education.

A you may already know, Core-fave Jon Kolko has launched a new educational institution, the Austin Center for Design, in Austin, Texas. There’s a virtual open house coming up at the start of April, so you may want to check it out. Here’s the pitch:

The program exists to transform society through design and design education. This transformation occurs through the development of design knowledge directed towards all forms of social and humanitarian problems. The center explicitly tackles problems related to:

* Homelessness and transient housing solutions
* Healthcare access, affordability, and comprehension
* Nutrition, personal wellness, and consumption
* Education and job placement
* Poverty, as a general state of being
* Sustainability and environmental impact

The Center offers an innovative curriculum that repositions creative design education in the context of designing for the public sector. Students learn the interdisciplinary skills of creative design thinking, as applied to solving complicated problems of society and culture. These skills broadly include divergent thinking, ideation, visualization, synthesis, prototyping, and the managing of complexity and data organization. Students use these skills to develop systems, services, products, and new business models that address pressing social issues.

Jon will be running the virtual open house on April 1st, at 6:00pm central time. Visit the site for more information and to sign up, and to learn more about the school.

Congrats Jon!

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Open House: Austin Center for Design