On Metadesign, Emergence, and Futures with Hannah Jones and Mathilda Tham | Ep. 150
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In what ways are you a designer?
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Today, Abbie, Hannah, and Mathilda explore the dissonance between prioritizing the present and/ or the future; the discomfort (and learning) that comes with awkward spaces; the power of storytelling for expanding our imagination; and the importance of designing with emergence in mind. This conversation was recorded in front of a live audience as part of the RSDX Online Festival on Friday, October 3, 2025.
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Hannah Jones is a design educator and researcher with over 20 years of experience in co-designing sustainable, inclusive futures. She currently supervises PhDs with a focus on metadesigning at University of Wales Trinity St. David, Wales, UK. Her teaching practice, research and workshop facilitation brings together metadesign tools and approaches inspired by her research at Goldsmiths, University of London and designing thinking and intersectional approaches to designing from her time working at Stanford University at the Institute for Design (d.school).
Mathilda Tham is Professor of Design at Linnaeus University, Sweden and affiliated with Goldsmiths, University of London.Her metadesign research seeks to develop uncompromisingly systemic and holistic approaches to living within Earth's limits, connecting environmental issues with social justice and mental health, and individual needs with global sustainability. It has resulted in: new ways to meet around the infected forest issue, new rituals to integrate different generations, a recipe book for making homes within Earth's limits, new professional designer roles, new policy initiatives. She is co-creator of + Change education and research environment, co-author of the Earth Logic Fashion Action Research Plan and co-founder Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion. See www.mathildatham.com
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Stories Lived. Stories Told. is created, produced & hosted by Abbie VanMeter.
Stories Lived. Stories Told. is an initiative of the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution.
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Music for Stories Lived. Stories Told. is created by Rik Spann.
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