Live Mentor Sessions

1:1 Support & Activation

You have a project or idea all ready to go, but need another set of eyes on it to check for all the design, sustainability and system perspectives! Dive deep into your problem area and go through the entire DDM mining, landscaping, building process. Get to a prototype stage, and receive feedback to make sure your final (or close to final) iteration achieves the goal you are looking for design, systems and sustainability infused into the core. These weekly 1hr sessions over three months start with a deep dive understanding, followed by project work, and a final wrap up presentation.

WHAT TO EXPECT

  • Individualized support and attention to your personal or professional project

  • Activities, provocations and motivations to get your project aligned with your goals and values

  • Infusion of systems thinking, sustainability and design aspects into your outcome goals

Emma Segal

Live Sessions With

Creative change-maker Emma Segal brings over two decades of experience designing and producing local and international manufactured consumer goods. She has a wealth of experience in sustainability, design and systems change that she brings to our dynamic creative approach to challenging the status quo by design. With formal training in international relations, design and illustration, along with a Masters degree in changing the way designers create products, she has a deep breadth of work from creating multi-million dollar programs for multi-national organizations to bootstrapped entrepreneurs. She works extensively in all aspects of design, as well as facilitating workshops around the world as an UnSchool Educator in sustainability, design and systems thinking. Her experience spans creating large scale fashion shoots, to factory apparel production trips in India, Thailand and China, New York fashion shows & magazine press visits, as well as designing for change-making projects to support the growth of the circular economy at all levels. Emma has won many design & illustration awards, and her work has been seen in Harrods, Nordstrom, Barneys, Fred Segal, Galleries Lafayette, movies, TV shows, magazines, been included in books on systems change, and featured by the Smithsonian.

Emma Segal

Certified Educator, Creative Change Design

Participant Feedback

Emma has led and supported UnSchool workshops around the world

“Better than what I expected! Emma's experience with the fashion industry was amazing. Apart from the methodology I had two tangible outputs: I created a new course I will start teaching the next semester at Pacifico Business School which is called Textile Innovation and Sustainability, and I created Artextile, a sustainable textile organization in Peru which offers spaces and experiences for people to create change and have fun at the same time. Finding a community of people who are interested in sustainability and mixing it with design and innovation methodologies is the inspiration I needed to move forward. Рriceless.”

Partner & Strategic Designer at Beta Lab

Lourdes Martínez Quiñe

“As a writer, I gained essential insight on how to frame issues I'm writing about in the fields of medical technology and resource extraction. As a teacher, I took away dynamic methods for both exploding problems and refining potential paths for creative research and re-visioning - the types of tools that will empower my students to discover what they have to bring to this global conversation. My UnSchool training encouraged me to pursue this line of research, gave me a different set of tools for approaching its possibilities, and empowered me as a writer to push where policy change might make the most difference.”

Author, Lightning Flowers: My Journey To Uncover the Cost of Saving A Life

Katherine Standefer

“Amazing! It gave me a chance to learn more about what people in different parts of the world are working on when it comes to single-use plastic waste and sustainability in the apparel industry. The workshop gave me the confidence and sparked a desire in me to create my own studio to communicate the value of responsible design and innovation. These underlying factors are what the studio offers, through art direction, design thinking and experience design. Having a more holistic understanding of systems thinking, sustainable design and the circular economy, I am able to tackle diverse problem areas effectively. ”

Senior Visual Designer & Design Researcher at Purpose

Suma Balaram

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