Design for Transformative Learning
A Practical Approach to Memory-Making and Perspective-Shifting

This website is a companion resource for a playbook on designing transformative learning encounters. The book shares a playful and practical approach to learning from and adapting to a rapidly changing world. The call for continuous learning requires us to see beyond a periodic acquisition of new skills. This design-led approach scaffolds the courageous and curious shiftwork required to revise the stories we tell ourselves, to unlearn old habits and to embrace new practices.

This design playbook helps drive sustained change by creating memory-making, perspective-shifting and hands-on learning encounters. The book braids stories from design practice with theories of change, transformative learning literature, cognitive and social psychology research, affect theory and Indigenous knowing. The website shares book excerpts and provides templates for designing playdates and being reflexive about your own praxis.


SEED/ing Change

Reconciling insights from design practice, with neuroscience research, transformative learning theory and lessons from Indigenous knowing the book names four sites of inquiry for animating wonder and seeding transformative learning.

Explore how to SEED shift work.

A Book Companion

Here you’ll find free digital resources, key concepts visualised, case study links and behind-the-scenes reflections.

Download resources and explore case studies.

Photo Credit: Dion Tuckwell, Making Space

A Constellation of Making

Positioning design as about more than the making of things, the book introduces learning encounters that explore how design can make sense, make possible, make space, make memories and ultimately make meaning.

Check out the Make Constellations.