Northeastern University’s center for interdisciplinary design research at the College of Arts, Media, and Design

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Joined January 2020
The New Civic Terrains Speaker Series continues this Thursday, Oct. 29, at 4 p.m. ET! Drawing from his book, “Trans Technologies” (@mitpress, 2025), Oliver Haimson of @umsi will discuss how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people and vice versa.
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The CfD organized a panel for the program of Media in Motion II, a festival from the Center for Transformative Media. Gregor Aisch, Enrico Bertini, Paolo Ciuccarelli and Jason Forrest will ask how visualization can support democratic reasoning. Join the discussion next week!
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We led a PhD Colloquium yesterday, inviting CAMD PhD students to gather and share their co-design research work. They demonstrated recent projects, exchanging ideas and feedback. 💡 We love how these events strengthen connections and expand the reach of design research! 🤝
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Now through October 30, #AHTWeeks26 celebrates the power of arts, humanities and tech for research, discovery, experiential learning and co-creation with wider communities. Learn more and see a full list of events at the link below. 🔗 ahtweeks.sites.northeastern.…
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🚨 UPDATE 🚨 This event has been postponed! More details and the new date are coming soon.
In one week! ⌛️ Join us on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 12 p.m. ET to explore how technology can support animal agency, wellbeing and care, as well as the practical, ethical and design challenges that arise. Learn more and register now on our website: camd.northeastern.edu/events…
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In one week! ⌛️ Join us on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 12 p.m. ET to explore how technology can support animal agency, wellbeing and care, as well as the practical, ethical and design challenges that arise. Learn more and register now on our website: camd.northeastern.edu/events…
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The Center for Design has teamed up with the @NuLawLab from the @NUSL for their event on Tuesday, October 27, at 12 p.m. ET. 🤝 Join us for a book talk about “Visual Literacy for Lawyers: A Guide to Enhancing Your Contracts and Practice.”
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Technology is increasingly becoming part of how we care for, understand & interact with animals. Our next CfD Conversation brings together researchers, designers & animal-care professionals to discuss projects from the @interactanimlab with local partners like @NEAQ.
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Join us for this hybrid event on Thursday, October 22, at 12 p.m. ET. Learn more and register now at the link below. camd.northeastern.edu/events…
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Center for Design at CAMD retweeted
Information+ 2027 calls for contributions open 16 October. Guidelines + submission links: informationplusconference.co… #InformationPlus2027 #infoplus2027 #Informationdesign #Datavisualization #Datavis #Dataviz #Polimi #Milan #CfC
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CfD core faculty member Laura Forlano and members of her Critical Futures Lab will be at the @4sWeb conference in Toronto later this week! Read along for details of their conference presentations. Learn more: 4sonline.org/@4sWeb
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The CfD has hosted the Boston Study Tour group over the past few years, and yesterday, we met with this year’s contingent! We gave these students a quick but comprehensive tour and hope they have a fantastic week experiencing all that Boston has to offer!
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Meet a new member of the Center for Design team, Megan Le! 👋 🤩 Megan is a third-year student majoring in Experience Design and minoring in Psychology. She has joined the CfD as a Design Stories intern to explore new formats, tools and approaches for engaging storytelling.
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Academia and industry united last night in our first CfD Conversation of the semester. 🤝 Thanks to IDSA Boston for co-hosting, to our speakers for donating their time and expertise, and to our guests for joining us after hours! It was the perfect way to kick off the series.
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If you missed the discussion or want to revisit it at your leisure, the recording is on our YouTube channel, linked below. ⏯️ youtu.be/wLFBxsS4Bzs Panelists: Tucker Marion, Marta Szpilewska and Mary Lou Tierney Moderator: Paolo Ciuccarelli
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Introducing our newest team of Students-in-Residence! 🥁🎉 Annabelle Nolan, Jacopo Conti, Marco Galli and Noufou Sasso will be working together on “Cultivating Packaging,” a project that explores food packaging design in collaboration with the Kape Diem Coffee Lab in Timor-Leste.
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This team will examine how the properties of local biological materials can shape both the function and communication of the final packaging, while developing a flexible production system that can scale across different community contexts. Welcome, team!
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