Episode 3: Dr. Christina Harrington

This month in the lounge I’m joined by Dr. Christina Harrington, Design researcher and professor at Carnegie Mellon University and one of my design partners in this work. We met a little over a year ago on a panel and since then have been able to join forces to create Building Utopia, an Afrofuturist-inspired Speculative Design toolkit. Christina’s goal in her work is to bring the ideas of design to our communities, the ones who have always been at the forefront of new innovative ideas. 

In this episode, which I’m calling Do the Thing, Christina talks about finding her authentic self as a queer, preacher’s kid, ditching engineering for design, and having the courage to put new ideas into the world. 

Learn more about Christina and our Building Utopia project at buildingutopiadeck.com.