Terry Irwin’s research is in Transition Design, a new area of design study, practice and research that argues for a societal transition toward more sustainable futures. Terry, along with Gideon Kossoff and Cameron Tonkinwise developed Transition Design and integrated it into programs and curricula at the School of Design in 2014.

Terry shared her work alongside Gideon Kossof during the Session 3 Lab titled, Transition Design: Design for Systems-Level Change in April of 2020.