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Quick Guide to the Disruptive Design Method
Quick Guide to the Disruptive Design Method
The Disruptive Design Method (DDM) is a systems-based approach to creative problem solving for tackling complex social and environmental…
Leyla Acaroglu
Jun 30, 2020
Quick Guide to Sustainable Design Strategies
Quick Guide to Sustainable Design Strategies
Sustainable design is the approach to creating products and services that have considered the environmental, social, and economic impacts…
Leyla Acaroglu
May 27, 2020
What is Disruptive Design?
What is Disruptive Design?
Disruption was asked to be banished in 2012, 2014, and 2015, yet it still is a hot, overused ‘buzzword.’ Just like many aspirational terms…
Leyla Acaroglu
Oct 5, 2016
Why we need more Disruptive Design and less Disruptive Innovation
Why we need more Disruptive Design and less Disruptive Innovation
A few years ago I was running a workshop for a group of designers on sustainability, and I started to talk about the practice of planned…
Leyla Acaroglu
Mar 6, 2016
Design for Disposability
Design for Disposability
Design is one of the most powerful forces humans have created. Why? Because it influences every single part of our lives — no matter who…
Leyla Acaroglu
Jan 3, 2018
Six Steps to Circular Systems Design
Six Steps to Circular Systems Design
Design influences all of us in profound and often unnoticeable ways. From the subtle shifts in our society to the overt impacts that…
Leyla Acaroglu
Jan 21, 2018
Free Tools for Sustainable and Circular Design
Free Tools for Sustainable and Circular Design
Over the years, my team and I have created a range of free, open-access toolkits to support changemakers in adopting the skills needed to…
Leyla Acaroglu
Jul 9, 2020
How Design Designs Us: Part 3 | The Ethics of Design
How Design Designs Us: Part 3 | The Ethics of Design
The human brain is a complex mass of energy designed to respond to the world around it, and more specifically, designed to make effective…
Leyla Acaroglu
Sep 26, 2016
How Design Designs Us | Part 1: The Silent Social Scripter
How Design Designs Us | Part 1: The Silent Social Scripter
In this three-part series, I’m exploring the ways in which design influences and affects our lives and how to unlock the emergent potential…
Leyla Acaroglu
Sep 1, 2016
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