Ellen McGirt

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

A Letter from IDEO’s CEO: Celebrating the Redesigners

The Design Observer Twenty is our curated selection of twenty remarkable people, projects, and big ideas solving an urgent social need.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Alison Mears + Jonsara Ruth

Giving architects and designers the tools they need to remove the toxic chemicals in affordable housing and beyond.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Dr. Dima Gazda

Bringing elegant design, inclusion, and responsible AI to the field of prosthetics.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Halli Þorleifsson

The Icelandic designer and entrepreneur is transforming his country — and soon the world.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Henry Timms

A cultural institution expands the canon of classical art to become affordable, relevant, and accessible to everybody.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Dr. Ismail D. Badjie

An innovative model delivers dignified, community-centered preventive health services in The Gambia.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Massoud + Mahmud Hassani

A childhood toy grows up to become a tool to end the scourge of landmines.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Games for Change

A new coalition of gaming industry leaders led by Dove, including Epic Games’ Unreal Engine and Women in Games, is changing how girls and women are represented in digital games.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

Suzanne Ishaq, PhD

A community forms to advance social equity at the microscopic level.

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

The Redesigners

The Design Observer Twenty is our curated selection of twenty remarkable people, projects, and big ideas solving an urgent social need.

Cindy Chastain|Conversations

Design Observer x Mastercard

For three days in March, we gathered with some sixty people—designers and scholars, social entrepreneurs and independent consultants, creative leaders and senior practitioners from across a range of industries—to discuss the …

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E11: Avery Willis Hoffman

Avery Willis Hoffman is a writer, director, producer, and curator. Hoffman recently joined Brown University as the inaugural artistic director of the Brown Arts Initiative.