Dr Leyla Acaroglu is an award-winning designer, 2016 UNEP Champion of the Earth, and founder of Disruptive Design Agency & the UnSchool. She is a powerhouse of innovation - a self-styled 'sustainability provocateur', who works to use design- and systems-thinking to activate social change.   

0:00 Leyla's start in Product Design 9

:50 Humanity's newest challenge 

15:46 The power to change something 

23:36 Recycling validates waste 

32:10 How products design us 

42:42 Leyla's UNEP Anatomy Of Action  

48:00 Leyla's pillars of work  

52:00 How does nature solve problems?

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