What becomes possible when we move beyond growth, speed, and efficiency?

We live and design within systems that shape what we value. Faster is better. More is better. Convenient is better. Growth is better. Efficiency is better. We’re taught to measure value through the things we can buy, sell, and consume.

But a world organized around growth and consumption comes with a cost: to our wellbeing, to our communities, and to the planet.

Over the past few years, Ida Persson has been exploring those costs—and what it might look like to shift away from them. So for our September event, she’ll be joining us for a watch party of her 2026 Throughline talk, DesignShifts: A better future for and through design.

After the talk, she’ll be hosting an interactive workshop that asks the questions: what becomes possible when we shift beyond the dominant narratives of growth, speed, and efficiency and start centering other values? How might that change the way we live, work, and design?

Together, we’ll pause to notice the values shaping our everyday choices, work, and design, and explore what else we might design for—and what matters beyond the usual measures of success.