05
February
Wed
2025
Impossible Futures and the Ethics of Hopelessness with Victor Udoewa – virtual event
Impossible Futures and the Ethics of Hopelessness with Victor Udoewa – virtual event
Many community groups and organizations hire a social impact designer or futurist to help create a more prosperous, flourishing future. However, the designer or futurist often creates a future the community doesn't want or own, and any initiative created from the work e...
05
March
Wed
2025
Design Lessons from a Weird Life with Melissa Casburn – in-person event
Design Lessons from a Weird Life with Melissa Casburn – in-person event
For some, “Keep Portland Weird” is more than a bumper sticker. It’s a mandate, a clarion call, akin to the forces that guided many of us to the design community. It’s a directive to diverge from the mainstream and overcome functional fixedness. It also thrives o...
03
September
Wed
2025
You don’t understand history until you’ve seen this with Jason Clauss – virtual event
You don’t understand history until you’ve seen this with Jason Clauss – virtual event
History is a complex web of intertwined forces acting together over time. Conventional methods of understanding history—text, line graphs, and maps—cannot convey complexity. For that, you need the Historigraph.