Hope and action with Mushon Zer-Aviv

11/30/21 • 50 min

Mushon Zer-Aviv is an activist, artist, and designer. He's currently at work on devising new ways of understanding change and the future—ways that account for the limits of forecasting and consider the "darkness" of the future as a place for hope and possibility. He also discusses systemic bias, the value of small talk, his appreciation for Rebecca Solnit, Naomi Klein, and Milton Friedman, and how his work brings provocation and action together.Institute of Design at Illinois Tech Discover programs and resources on design and systems thinking. Subscribe to With Intent for more explorations into how design shapes our world, whether we call it design or not.

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