Toban Shadlyn

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10x100

Project

2025–

A collective learning mechanism to mobilize cross-sector organizations and practitioners translate societal transformation learnings within a coordinated 10×100‑day timeframe.

Power of Place

Program

2025

A 7-month learning program for experienced leaders and practitioners to dive deeply into the value-adding process of regenerative design.

Watershed Moments

Academia

2024-2025

A studio project exploring water scarcity in agricultural practices in the conext of Catalonia.

Designing With Drought

Academia

2023-2024

A studio project exploring the drought challenges facing Barcelona and the broader region.

Master of Strategic Design

Academia

2022–

A one-year masters program at ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona Spain.

Polycene Design

Project

2023-2025

An exploration on design standards for addressing the polycrisis from a planetary perspective.

Barcelona Design Week

Exhibition

2024

A series of exhibitions and public events that invited meaningful dialogue on humans relationship with water, sparking reflection, curiosity, and new avenues for collaboration.

Taking Care of Water

Academia

2023

A short course applying foresight and future practices in response to water futures in Barcelona.

Innovation & Future Thinking

Academia

2022–

A summer course offered at IED Barcelona, training practitioners in foresight and future practices.

Field States

Project

2022-2024

A strategic design studio, stewarding place-based transformation and civic value.

Opioids, Care, Addiction

Project

2019-2023

A multi-year systems change effort in collaboration with various stakeholders including academic institutions, private and public sector, and non profit organizations. Collectively, we are designing healing and restorative systems of care.

Mock Overdose Prevention Sites

Project

2021–2022

A series of exhibitions across Rhode Island and Massachusetts immersing people in a 1:1 scale mock safe injection sites.

Incomplete City

Academia

2022

Spring semester course in the Urban Technology program at the University of Michigan.

Royal College of Art

Academia

2022-2024

Lecturer and Tutor in the Master of Service Design and Design within Society at the Royal College of Art London.

Mainstay, RI

Project

2019-2022

A small thinktank and advocacy group working to redesign the environments of care for people impacted by the overdose crisis.

Design Beyond Crisis

Academia

2022

Interdisciplinary studio course at Rhode Island School of Design.

Equitable Futures Studio: Opioics & Overdose

Project

2021

A mechanism for collaboration and change within Rhode Island.

Kaospilot

Interview

2022

A podcast interview about faciltiation with students from Kaospilot School.

Carry Forward

Symposium

2021

Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Complexity annual symposium entitled Carry Forward.

Design Research Methodologies

Workshop

2018–

An ongoing lecture and workshop series on design research and methodologies.

Generation C

Symposium

2020

Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Complexity annual symposium entitled Generation C.

Rhode Island Office of Innovation

Project

2018

The Rhode Island Office of Innovation, an initiative launched by Governor Gina Raimondo in January 2016, to support and positively impact public systems in the state.

Strategic Design Program

Academia

2018-2021

Professional courses on systems and strategic design taught by RISD’s Center for Complexity.

Institute for Design and Public Policy

Project

2016-2018

A multi-sector convening where leaders explored how human‑centred design can reframe public policy challenges. Through systems‑oriented collaboration, the Institute charted pathways for integrating design thinking into governance.

Gassed Out

Thesis

2018

What to do when the world runs out of gas? GASSED OUT is a proposal that seeks to anticipate the transition from fossil fuels to renewables by transforming gas stations into community ‘energy hotspots’.

Interior Architecture

Project

2014–2017

Interior design renovation projects (residential and commercial).

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