This course explores emergent approaches to addressing global challenges. Over six weeks, students explore frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals, wicked problems, decolonizing innovation, the intersection of artificial and collective intelligence and systems thinking applied to global problems. Taught by the founder of the United Nation’s largest innovation network and featuring practitioners from the global majority, the course will unpack creating social change related to problems in sustainable development. Students can expect to question how change and impact are made, who drives innovation and arrive at a basic understanding of the complexity in global problem solving. While the course may complicate how we understand making change, it is designed to unleash hope for how to make an impact on social and environmental problems. Learning objectives include designers’ roles in global change, designing interaction for collective intelligence, and understanding the dichotomy between scaling solutions versus working within complex adaptive systems. The curriculum challenges students to think critically about real use cases in social and environmental innovation and to design interventions to create common ground on wicked problems.