Digital publication from leading practitioners and educators in design, engineering and business to inform students in pursuit of social innovation pioneering careers

Edited by Kate Fletcher, Louise St Pierre, Mathilda Tham

The context of this book is the threat to vital earth systems, as exemplified by climate change, ecological toxicity, and biodiversity loss. The primary audience for this book is design academics, and the secondary audience includes practicing designers and design managers, creative directors.

2nd Cumulus Think Tank Publication
Published in April 2016
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The second Cumulus Think Tank publication was released during the Cumulus conference In this Place in Nottingham, UK. The first ever publication from the X-files Working Group.

ELIA’s publication endorsed and supported by Cumulus

This paper is intended as a position paper on the doctorate in the arts. It is formulated as a point of reference for policymakers, university leaders, curriculum designers and research funding agencies.

Book by the creators of DESIS Philosophy Talks series

This volume records the first 3 years of onging discussions about storytelling and design for social innovation held in different places around the world, many hosted during the Cumulus conferences. Desis is a long-term partner of Cumulus.

ArtCenter College of Design’s Graduate Art MFA program announces the publication of the first of three volumes of ArtCenter Talks, a collection of transcripts of lectures given by artists, theorists and historians throughout the program’s thirty-year history. For this inaugural volume, Stan Douglas, who joined the Graduate Art faculty in 2009, chose 13 lectures from among hundreds that he deemed best represented the scope and range of the first decade of the program and its guests. In his “Pomophobia,” which introduces the collection, Douglas describes the project:

1st Cumulus Think Tank Publication
Published in December 2015
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The first Cumulus Think Tank publication was released during the Cumulus conference In a Planet of Our Own in Mumabi, India.

EDII Summit, Helsinki, Finland – September 17-18, 2012

With 62 interviews and portraits of international designers and professional analyses of the skills and profiles of designers trained in design schools within the Cumulus network, this book presents the opportunities open to designers.