Carnegie Melon University’s School of Design is honored to announce our four newest recipients of a PhD in Transition Design. Sofía Bosch Gómez, Hajira Qazi, Chun Zheng, and Alex Wright all successfully defended their doctoral theses in April 2022.

Matthew Wizinsky, a PhD Researcher from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, recently published “Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow” with MIT Press.  The book looks at how design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles.

Starting in the Fall semester of 2021, the School of Design is thrilled to welcome three new PhD Researchers to our PhD program,

Sofía Bosch Gomez, a PhD Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, recently presented at the Transformation Trend Forum (TTF) on topics about how designers can face uncertainty and change as they tackle wicked problems by using Systems methodology. The TTF this year was organized by Dr. Xiangyang Xin, an alumnus of the School of Design (MDes ’02, PhD ’07).