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Ida Persson
Designer, storyteller, dreamer (freelance)
she/her
15-MINUTE TALK
DesignShifts: A better future for and through design
We live in a world where speed, convenience, and consumption often outweigh connection, care, and fulfillment. Design shapes this reality by creating products and experiences that make us buy more while feeling less.
In this talk, Ida will introduce us to DesignShifts: a new project she launched that invites us to imagine a different future—one where care, community, and collective flourishing are at the center of our lives and our work.
Together, we’ll explore intentional shifts to challenge old assumptions, imagine better futures, and transform design from a tool that contributes to division, destruction, and isolation into a practice that reconnects us to our inner selves, each other, and nature.
MORE About thIS Speaker
Ida Persson is a designer, storyteller, and dreamer passionate about using strategic design and storytelling to support human and planetary flourishing.
In her work, she helps socially minded organizations and individuals challenge systems, envision sustainable futures, and create inclusive, equity-centered tools, environments, and narratives.
Additionally, she is the founder of designshifts.org—a collaborative learning journey exploring a better future for and through design. She was born in Sweden, but is based in Munich.