Becoming an Agent of Change

Becoming an Agent of Change

About the Episode

Hala Abdel Malak is a design critic, curator, educator, researcher and strategist. Born in Beirut during the civil war, she grew up, worked, and studied internationally before grounding in New York. She is the Director of the BBA at Parsons School of Design and is also part of Design and Flow, a strategic design collective that facilitates actionable change and encourages shared responsibility. With a passion for social change, cultural identity exploration and the power of ideas through design, her work has been featured in Print Magazine, Design Indaba, Metropolis, AIGA, Beirut Design Week, NYC x Design, Wanted Design NYC, Smithsonian Media, MOMA and SXSW, where she was awarded the Learn by Design award for her work on refugee education. In this third episode, Andrea and Hala discuss actionable change in a post-pandemic world, understanding the relationship of systems and opportunities to create impact, build resilient systems and influence behavioral change with human centered design.

Date

May 7, 2021

Industry

Inspirations

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ABOUT TOMORROW

Share your vision—your ideas could inspire and help empower others to act.


With the state of the world today, it’s easy to feel a bit helpless, but by making small, powerful changes

in our own communities, we can spark waves of

hope and resilience that reach far and wide.

A new version of normal is waiting to be created.

Let's pave the way…

From New York to the World

JOIN THE CONVERSATION
ABOUT TOMORROW

Share your vision—your ideas could inspire and help empower others to act.


With the state of the world today, it’s easy to feel a bit helpless, but by making small, powerful changes in our own communities, we can spark waves of hope and resilience that reach far and wide.

A new version of normal is waiting to be created. Let's pave the way…

From New York to the World

JOIN THE CONVERSATION
ABOUT TOMORROW

Share your vision—your ideas could inspire and help empower others to act.


With the state of the world today, it’s easy to feel a bit helpless, but by making small, powerful changes in our own communities, we can spark waves of hope and resilience that reach far and wide.

A new version of normal is waiting to be created. Let's pave the way…

From New York to the World