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Cheryl Heller - Higher Purpose Through Social Design

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Cheryl Heller is a strategist and designer, who has had an amazing career. She is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts. She was awarded a Practitioner Fellowship in the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Program. This only scratches the surface!

Cheryl's most recent book is The Intergalactic Design Guide: Harnessing the Creative Potential of Social Design.

To learn more about Cheryl, head over to: heller.commonwise.design.

We discuss:

  • What is social design?
  • How does social design help put structure to complexity?
  • What is the most foundational aspect of social design?


    • Links mentioned:

    • https://workingnarratives.org/article/public-narrative
    • http://marshallganz.usmblogs.com/files/2012/08/Public-Narrative-Worksheet-Fall-2013-.pdf


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