Webinar: Harnessing and Measuring the Creative Potential of Social Design

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 - 1:00pm EST
Webinars

Businesses, governments, foundations and the social sector are investing millions of dollars in social design as the most promising methodology for solving the complex human challenges of our time.

In this webinar, Cheryl Heller, Founding Chair of the Design for Social Innovation MFA program at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and President of the design lab CommonWise, along with Anne LaFond, Director of the John Snow, Inc. Center for Health Information, Monitoring and Evaluation (CHIME), present an overview of what Social Design is and how it works.

For the first time, Cheryl and Anne will learnings from research supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on how leading practitioners of social design are measuring the effectiveness of their work.

Participants

Cheryl Heller | An Island Press Author

Cheryl Heller

Cheryl Heller is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA and President of the design lab CommonWise. She was recently awarded a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship, and is a recipient of the prestigious AIGA Medal for her contribution to the field of design. She founded the first design department in a major advertising agency and as president, grew the division to $50m in billings when it was spun off as an independent entity.