Magnus Ericson is head of IASPIS Applied Arts Programme, responsible for the design, crafts, and architecture program. He has a background as a curator and pedagogue, working across design, architecture, urbanism ,and art. Between 2014 and 2018, he developed and managed two experimental postgraduate courses on socially engaged critical practice: “Sites and Situations” and “Organising Discourse” at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm. Between 2009 and 2014, Ericson was a senior advisor, coordinator, and curator for the design-related program at Arkdes, Sweden´s National Center for Architecture and Design, in Stockholm. Together with Ramia Maze, he was the author and coeditor of DESIGN ACT: Socially and Politically Engaged Design Today—Critical Roles and Emerging Tactics (Sternberg Press, 2011) and editor of Iaspis Forum for Design and Critical Practice—The Reader (Sternberg Press, 2009). Together with Pelin Tan, he is the curator of Urgent Pedagogies.