Prof. Dr. Lisa Norton

Prof. Dr. Lisa Norton
Short Bio

Lisa Norton is an educator and guide with a experience in fine art and design at scales ranging from local vernacular craft practices to sculpture, and design strategy for systems change. She hosts Uncertainment Lounge, a social-emotional learning context for developing collective negative capability, humility, and trust. She is also prototyping, Design Being, a psychological pattern language for designers aiming to bridge the gaps between our capabilities and our impact and influence.

Previously she served as Professor of Design Leadership and Associate Dean of the School of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, Professor in Designed Objects, Metalsmithing and Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Professional affiliations include the  International Consortium of Integral Scholars, the Deliberately Developmental Practitioner NetworkThe Heterodox Academy, and The Studio at the Edge of the World.

Her writings have appeared in Design Philosophy Politics, Integral Leadership Review, Design Issues, Craft Culture, Art Asia Pacific, and Yishu: a journal of contemporary Chinese Art.