Design x Technology Series: Tasoulla Hadjiyanni

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

12:30 - 1:30 PM

On campus and virtual

Come to CoAD for our next Design x Technology Series lecture featuring Tasoulla Hadjiyanni - Northrop Professor, Distinguished Global Professor, Interior Design at the University of Minnesota. Her talk titled, Design for Social Impact will allow her to reflect on how she found her purpose through her research with disparities, sex trafficking, mental health, and heritage in war as well as how she positions design as an agent of change.

🛂 CoAD Freshman, this event counts towards your Experience Passport. 

CEU: This lecture equals 1 professional architecture credit towards licensure requirements. ​​

Please note that LTU is not a registered AIA CE provider. By virtue of having a NAAB-accredited architecture program, the State of Michigan authorizes LTU to offer continuing education credit. A list of state-approved HSW subjects can be found on their by searching the page for ' HSW subjects for continuing education'.

As part of CoAD's Design x Technology Lecture Series, this lecture is free and open to the public. Guests may watch online or on campus. Register for the location/viewing details.

BIO: Tasoulla Hadjiyanni, Ph.D. is Northrop Professor and Distinguished Global Professor of Interior Design at the University of Minnesota. A refugee from Cyprus, she started to unravel how design, culture, and identity intersect under conditions of displacement with her book “The making of a refugee – Children adopting refugee identity in Cyprus” (Praeger, 2002). She later founded Culturally Enriched Communities and Design Against Trafficking to advocate for built environments where everyone can thrive through exhibits, films, blogs, a TEDx presentation, and social media. Dr. Hadjiyanni's latest book "The right to home - Exploring how space, culture, and identity intersect with disparities" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) features stories of Hmong, Somalis, Mexicans, Ojibwe, and African Americans in Minnesota to explore how elements of interiors support or suppress meaning-making processes, delineating the production of disparities. Dr. Hadjiyanni’s award-winning teaching pedagogies have been used to decolonize design education and nurture global citizens.

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