Ellen McGirt
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Ellen McGirt|Books
Parable of the Redesigner
Soft rains come in spite of us.
Ellen McGirt
Parable of the Redesigner
Reflecting on Ray Bradbury, Sara Teasdale, and Octavia Butler, Ellen McGirt explores redesign, resilience, and the quiet power of change.
Ellen McGirt|Essays
The Design Observer annual gift guide!
The winter holidays are already a tricky time for so many people, though this year feels uniquely fraught.
Ellen McGirt|Essays
Gratitude? HARD PASS
We ask too much of gratitude.
Ellen McGirt|Democracy
New kids on the bloc?
Equity, race relations, preserving Black history, and saving democracy are top of mind.
Ellen McGirt|Essays
I’m looking for a dad in finance
It’s Nobel Prize season. (Big dramatic sigh.)
Ellen McGirt|Design and Climate Change
What will we do when all the levees break?
Ellen McGirt|Audio
S11E10: Activism in AI with Google’s Ovetta Sampson
Jessica Helfand|Audio
S11E9: What’s Love Got to do with Business with Jorge Fontanez
Ellen McGirt|Audio
S11E8: Poetry is Anti Capitalist with Tracy K. Smith
In this episode of DB|BD, hosts Jessica Helfand and Ellen McGirt sit down with Smith to talk through the writing process of two of her most recent works.
Jessica Helfand|Audio
S11E7: Using Design to Show the World Your Truth with Dionna Dorsey and Production Designer Olivia Peebles
This episode of DB|BD features two extraordinary women from two seemingly different corners of the design world, Dionna Dorsey and Olivia Peebles.
Ellen McGirt|Audio
S11E6: Why an Inclusive Global Economy is a Redesign Project with Mastercard’s Shamina Singh
In this episode of DB|BD, Shamina Singh, the co-founder and president of Mastercard’s Center for Inclusive Growth, explains why extreme poverty is the ultimate redesign challenge.