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The Design Village: Educating the Next Generation of Designers for Social Transformation is now a book you can hold. 📖

It started as a question about how you train designers for social change. The answer turned out to be: in studios, in communities, and in the messy space between them.

Written by our founder @mridusahai and @paulhekkert , produced by @elinewildenberg , designed by @jugaadhlamba , published by @bispublishers.

At the launch during Dutch Design Week, André Schaminée sat down with Paul and Mridu and asked the kind of questions that make you think twice (in a good way). Harm Kessel said a few words on behalf of BIS Publishers. Thank you both.

And thank you to everyone who showed up, everyone who built this place over the years, and the students who keep proving the idea works.

The book is out. The work goes on. 🧡

EU friends, you can order a copy now. Link in bio. Photo Credits: @claratjuvstart

#TheDesignVillage #BookLaunch #DesignEducation #SocialTransformation

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Today at Dutch Design Week, we launch Educating the Next Generation of Designers for Social Transformation by Mridu Sahai Patnaik and Paul Hekkert. Published by BIS Publishers, with a foreword by Don Norman.

It’s the story of how a village became a school, and how a school is learning to raise stewards, not leaders.

📍 Microlab Eindhoven, Kastanjelaan, Eindhoven
📅 Today, 17 October
🕓 Doors 16:00 CEST (19:30 IST) | Launch 16:30 CEST (20:00 IST)

Not in Eindhoven? We’re going live on our socials. Pull up a chair from wherever you are.

#TheDesignVillage #TDVManifesto #DutchDesignWeek #DDW2026 #BookLaunch

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What if designers didn’t just design the world — but helped lead it?

From studios and classrooms to institutions, public life and politics, the possibilities for where a designer can take their practice are far bigger than we often imagine.

A conversation with Mridu Sahai Patnaik, co-founder of The Design Village and co-author of Educating the Next Generation of Designers for Social Transformation.

What could your design practice become?

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To change a system, you first have to step into it.

For designers, that means engaging with society as it is — its people, problems and complexities — and having the courage to imagine how it could be different.

But courage needs compassion too.

Educating the Next Generation of Designers for Social Transformation explores what it means to prepare designers for exactly this: not just designing things, but engaging with the world and helping shape it.

Launching tomorrow at Dutch Design Week.
17 October 2026.

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What happens when you keep digging?

When questions lead to more questions, and curiosity becomes a way of working, learning and making.

Our book: Educating the Next Generation of Designers for Social Transformation brings some of these ideas, experiences and questions together.

launching tomorrow 17.10.2026 ✨✨
at the dutch design week

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“Design is a way of awakening sensibility and attention to what is around you.”

For Andrea Anastasio, design begins long before tools and techniques. It begins with the ability to observe, to notice, and to become more attentive to the world around us.

As part of our upcoming book launch series, we bring you a perspective that invites us to look beyond the obvious and rediscover the significance of everyday surroundings.

Mark the date 17.10.2026

#BookLaunch #AndreaAnastasio #DesignThinking #ArchitectureAndDesign #DesignPerspectives

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At TDV, everyone calls you by your name. No sir, no ma’am. It’s a small thing that says a lot about how we teach.
The Design Village: Educating the next generation of designers for social transformation. Launching 17.10.2026.

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What if the most meaningful transformations begin with the questions we dare to ask? 💭

In this teaser, Anusha shares a glimpse into the ideas and perspectives that challenge the familiar and open up new ways of thinking.

Because design isn’t just about what we create. It’s about how we see, question, and transform the world around us.

📖 The countdown to the book launch is on!

**17.10.2026 | The Design Village**

#TheDesignVillage #TDV #BookLaunch #AnushaDhawan #DesignForChange BookLaunchTeaser

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What if a book could do more than tell a story? What if it could challenge the way we see the world? 👀

In our next teaser, Vatsal takes us a little deeper into the ideas, conversations, and perspectives behind something we can’t wait to share with you.

One book. Countless perspectives. A story waiting to be told.

The countdown is on. Are you ready to turn the page?

📍 The Design Village Book Launch | 17 October 2026

#TheDesignVillage #TDV #BookLaunch #DefiningTransformation #DesignBeyondBoundaries

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What makes you a designer?

More methods. More tools. More templates.

Now AI can fill them. So what stays yours?

Your judgement. Your ability to question the brief. Your willingness to sit with a problem before rushing to solve it.

Process is part of design. But process is not practice.

My new book, Before the Solution: Living Design Beyond Tools and Templates, explores the human capabilities we can keep developing as producing solutions gets faster and cheaper.

Published by BIS Publishers (@bispublishers), drawing on two decades of practice, teaching and research, including my work at the University of Sydney’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning (@sydney_arch_design_planning).

Live as a designer.
Not just work as one.

Read the book: www.beforethesolution.com

#BeforeTheSolution #DesignPractice #DesignEducation #AIAndDesign #BeyondToolsAndTemplates

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What happens when design moves beyond the commercial and becomes a conversation about ideas, people, and the world around us?

Hear from Ranu as he shares his perspective ahead of The Design Village Book Launch on 17 October 2026. A celebration of design, thought, and the ideas that shape how we see the world.

📖 Join us as we turn the page to a new chapter.

#TheDesignVillage #BookLaunch #Design #Architecture #DesignThinking

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Navigating the future of education requires finding the perfect balance.

“The tension between education needing to be almost stoic...versus being agile enough to respond to the world is what sort of we keep playing through all our systems.”- Mudita Pasari

As we count down to our book launch, our series of exclusive behind-the-scenes conversations continues. Today, Mudita sheds light on the dynamic nature of learning and the systems that shape our approach.

A glimpse into the discourse shaping our curriculum. 💫
#BookTeaser #DesignCommunity #NewRelease #TheDesignVillage #FutureOfEducation

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