Teaching and Mentorship — Vinay Kumar Mysore

community designer/researcher

Communities already hold the truest, most useful stories of themselves. My work is coauthorship: building alongside communities so their stories become exhibitions, publications, plans, and futures they recognize as their own.

I'm co-founder of In Good Company, a community design studio built on coauthorship. We make exhibitions and publications, run community consultations, and practice collective futuring with the institutions and neighborhoods we serve — planning the future with communities instead of for them.

Teaching & Research: codesign as a discipline, not a buzzword

I teach and mentor graduate and early-career designers in design research, codesign, and community engagement, and partner with academic researchers as a codesign methodologist: designing studies where the method has to hold up to both community trust and peer review.

Engagements include graduate teaching and guest lectures, thesis advising, research collaborations in healthcare and cultural institutions, and methods development for community-partnered studies.

Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts, McMaster University, and others. Ontario & New York. [ongoing]