Design must play a critical role as society faces difficult discussions and works to create a new balance in a troubled world. In this episode of Intersections: the RIT Podcast, Josh Owen, director of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies at RIT, and 2006 industrial design alumnus Seth Eshelman, founder of sustainable design firm Staach, discuss their Metaproject collaboration. In the collaboration, students have designed objects, which in their own unique ways, deploy educational content through their function to demand justice, empathy, sustainability, equity, and inclusion.Read a transcript of this episode: www.rit.edu/sites/rit.edu/files/docs/podcast-transcripts/Metaproject-Transcript.pdf