Survival Design | Rafael Tsantes | TEDxLeith

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Your career isn’t broken; the system is, and you’re allowed to redesign your life strategically instead of blaming yourself for not fitting a rigged game. Rafael Tsantes is a Glasgow-based designer and learning technologist who grew up in Athens, trained in theatre, retrained into communication design at the Glasgow School of Art, and built a career in the creative industries without financial backing or traditional entry routes. He now runs a purpose-led design studio focused on mission-driven organisations. His talk pushes back against the polished success narratives that dominate creative and tech industries - arguing that for people without safety nets, career-building isn't a heroic journey. It's a survival design problem. Rafael makes the case that "failure" is not the opposite of success - it's a signal about power, privilege, and access, and that design thinking is not a creative luxury but a political tool for navigating systems that were never built for everyone. Part persona

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