Summary
At Design Forge 2024, we embarked on a project together: The Little Book of Joy, a collection of tiny ways to bring delight into teaching and learning. In 2025, we held it in our hands, reflecting on a tumultuous year when our relationships with each other ignited joy through challenging times. Inspired by this year’s Pre-Forge Design Read, Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human, we considered how joy is a foundational element of design in community, and explored how we can prepare ourselves, our students, and our communities for the important work of collaboratively designing brighter futures.
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Presenter
Eugene Korsunskiy teaches human-centered design and co-directs the design initiative at Dartmouth. He co-founded Sparktruck, in an effort to bring back creative, hands-on learning to school through a curriculum of workshops and a truck to deliver them. He taught at the Stanford D.School and is the Executive Director of the future of design in the higher education community of practice.