Play Break: Thing From A CoDesigned Future @ Design Research Week (BOS)

Join CoDesign Collaborative and Northeastern University's Center for Arts, Media & Design during Design Research Week (Boston) for an energizing, hands-on, gamified session. We’ll play “Thing from a CoDesigned Future” and imagine worlds beyond the status quo. In this playful, fast-paced experience, you’ll combine unexpected prompts — future worlds, everyday “things,” areas of impact, and codesign values — to spark fresh ideas about what inclusive, just, and imaginative futures might look like. Play Break will be led by Aidan Borer, Director of Human Insights at Human-ology and Board Chair at CoDesign Collaborative, a nonprofit with a mission to inspire social change through the transformative power of design.

Whether you’re a student, designer, professor, community member, or just future-curious, this session will:

• Introduce a lightweight, participatory game you can use with your own peers or community.
• Encourage joyful, radical imagination about how we can redesign systems and everyday experiences.
• Connect with other change makers who care about designing for equity and belonging.

You’ll leave with:

• Provocative future concepts generated collaboratively in the session.
• A playable digital tool you can keep using in your own work.

All are welcome!

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