About Us
The School of Critical Design is a home for exploration of next design & business practice applied to critical issues impacting the future of humanity.
We are a London and Amsterdam based school born of an experimental studio model and dedicated to exploring future practice, methods, and thinking in design & business.
We look to create a space for anyone interested in conversations and explorations around design practice.
The school focuses on discourse around "critical" issues that will impact humanity now and in the future, for example, the climate crisis, energy, food, artificial intelligence, biodiversity, and post-capitalism, and on and on...
We’re creating a space for practitioners to develop further understanding of how design & business might contribute to and play in and impact these futures.
Come and explore the future with us.
Why You Should Join Us
The School of Critical design is the place for you to connect with bleeding edge design & business thinking.
Your participation will radically transform your thinking and practice in a short time. And you'll find yourself walking away with an MA's worth of design knowledge and insight to take out into the world. (Oh, and you should know, you'll spend 100x less than you would at a traditional design school.)
Course collection. You become a better thinker/designer/strategist when you take a workshop from our radical course collection. Explore material from Speculative Design to Degrowth.
Live talks. You develop bleeding edge insight when you check out Live talks where we meet with leading thinkers and practitioners from around the world.
Office hours. You'll work through ideas and learn from others when you join J. Paul for live office hours.
Tools & Templates. You have new ways of thinking at your fingertips when you have access to SOCD Tools & Template collection.
Design Briefs. You will hone your decision making, as you practice your skills working through our design brief collection.
Library. You will never run out of reading material with our carefully curated list of cutting edge list of books, articles, and videos from leading thinkers.
Amazing People. You will become a critical part of an amazing network of people from all around the world, all dedicated to building the future. We've been looking for you.
And so much more...
A Big Thanks
A big, huge, enormous thank you all of you who have become part of the school, participated in our talks, given feedback, invited me to speak, or joined a workshop in the past few years.
You have made this journey worth it.
You have make this journey fun.
You have taught us.
You have helped us grow.
And we can wait to show you what is next at School!
