SEGD Riga Chapter | Rising Designers & Public Health

Event for young designers

This event will reveal topics such as discrimination in public space, narratives in HIV awareness campaigns, side effects of hormonal contraception methods on women, visual communication tactics vaping companies employ to target youth, and how to design space for dementia to live culturally familiar.

Join event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87078496356

Moderator Aija Freimane, PhD, Lecturer at Technological University Dublin School of Art and Design, SEGD Riga Chapter Co-Chair

Young designers as activist’s through research-driven challenges in the current health system and society are demanding better quality of life for everyone.

Sabīne Vārtiņa

Space unites. Space creates. Space separates. Space sorts.

Fosters empathy, raise awareness, and deepen understanding of the challenges faced by different groups of people who experience discrimination in public spaces daily.

Leah Clarke

Designing a Narrative: A Multimodal Analysis of HIV Awareness Campaign. Videos from Two Separate Time Periods, 1987 and 2017 to 2023.

Explored the formation of narratives in HIV awareness campaign videos to examine how socially sensitive topics were designed.

Kitija Pekaine

Contraception: The Patient Information Leaflet.

Spotlighted the often-dismissed side effects of hormonal contraception methods on women and aimed to foster discussions on shared responsibility and equality of birth control methods.

Ruby Smith

Vaping Companies Targeting Youth Through the use of Visual Communication

Exposed how vaping companies are using tactics previously employed by tobacco companies to target youth and contributes to the discourse on designer ethics.

Orla Corrigan

There’s No Place Like Home

Applied design empathetically and intuitively for those living with dementia, creating space that is not only supportive but culturally familiar.