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Dr. Mauricio Mejía led a session on the ASU Leadership Academy. He discussed a design mindset for leadership and worked with participants in activities to understand design skills.

Doctoral candidate Xueting Wu successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on Monday, May 19th. Congratulations! Her research made contributions to the research area of design training of non-design professionals. She conducted an interview study with coaches, consultants, and …

Ruchita Mandhre has passed his PhD comprehensive exam and prospectus in the PhD in Design, Environment, and the Arts. Congratulations! Her research is about prototyping in co-design. Ruchita is a research assistant at the NSF-funded project "Understanding and Designing …

A new article just published on learning strategic design in a master's course. Lab's co-authors include director Mauricio Mejía and and alum Yumeng Xie.Strategic Design Skills in a Live Project: A Case Study of a Graduate Studio CourseAbstract: As design becomes more oriented …

The Transformation Lab will have a significant presence at the Design Research Society Conference this June in Boston: two papers and a Conversation session with other collaborators. Mejía, G. M. (2024). Strategic design futures: Designing for change in complex situations. …

Last week, on February 21, Dr. Mauricio Mejía discussed design issues with a top-notch group of Latin American designers in the meetup Diseño Sin Apellido (Non-specific design). He presented co-design concepts, but the conversation expanded to include multiple contemporary …

Dr. Mauricio Mejía participated in the roundtables of the Compete Through Service Symposium organized by ASU's Center for Services Leadership, College of Business. He discussed his approach to addressing complex business and social challenges called Strategic Design Futures.

Dr. Mauricio Mejía will speak in ASU's College of Health Solutions on October 12th. He will discuss design approaches such as human-centered design, design thinking, co-design, and participatory design.Learn more: …

On July 27th, Dr. Mejía will participate in a panel organized by ASU's Center for Services Leadership. It was a "Thought Leadership Call" on artificial intelligence, chatbots, and service robots. Dr. Mejía discussed how design thinking/mindset would address the challenges of …