Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Liberatory Design

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If our goal is to support humanity, I argue that is social justice work. Sometimes the reaction I get is, “that makes sense for a project related to racism or something.” But the reality is it’s impossible for any project to be untouched by the intersecting racism, sexism, ableism, etc. In fact, it’s a myth White Supremacy Culture has invested in upholding. We designed and led an intensive training on how to practice co-design including our custom-designed Participatory Design Toolkit.

Q: Any final thoughts for emerging or experienced design thinkers?

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In terms of additional design to improve racing, and give the car’s aesthetics a leaner and meaner feel, the GEN3 Evo will see a new aero package for the body. On top of AWD, Formula E has been working with official tire provider Hankook on a new all-weather iON tire set that provides 5-10% more grip. As part of Formula E’s sustainability initiative, the tires are made from 35% recycled and sustainable materials; a +9% increase compared to the current GEN3 spec. Named the GEN3 Evo car, it will be all-wheel drive and able to go 0-60 mph in 1.82 seconds, making it the fastest accelerating single-seat race car in the world.

Q: What can we as practitioners do in order to create with intention and design for greater equity?

Cape Town was still haunted by the legacy of being the 2014 World Design Capital. Hundreds of designers, many White, flooded into townships to interview communities about their concerns and challenges, only to vanish after the half-day workshop and never return. It became so pervasive that community members could plan their days and meals around these workshops. This and the legacy of harmful research and “social impact” projects wielded by starry-eyed Westerners created mistrust amongst communities we encountered.

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Notice invites us to practice self-awareness, seek context about the systems we’re designing in, and explore history’s legacy on our work. We have a network of talented collaborators we invite into projects to scale our reach and impact. We can be as lean or as large of a team as needed to meet our strategic goals and our partners’ needs.

Define invites us to co-develop a point of view about challenges and needs with the community. Together, we look for patterns and insights in stories that reveal the deeper needs of those closest to the challenge. When we’ve built a strategy and committed to mindsets, tools help us bring them to life through action. While the work of liberation is complex, there are some things we can start doing right away. We partner with mission-driven organizations seeking to center equity and reimagine how they operate in today’s world. We help you learn and apply design to take your equity efforts to the next level.

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Verde existed originally in his native New England primarily on the Island of Nantucket, where he lived for 20 years. A success as a design and build firm, it remains a strong presence. Drawn to California by the Pacific design aesthetic, natural beauty, and vibrant lifestyle, he excites in the possibilities. He has a strong background in zoning and participation on non-profit boards.

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Swift’s current boyfriend, NFL star Travis Kelce, seems to have inspired only two songs. There is little other information about the new processors yet, suggesting the launch is some months away, with most indications being sometime late in 2024. However, AMD's CEO Dr Lisa Su is to deliver the opening keynote at this year's Computex tradeshow in Taiwan - an even that many expect will see announcements about new AMD hardware including Ryzen 9000 processors. Milan may have been overflowing with crisp design, stylish designers, and creative installations during Milano Design Week recently. But I’m pretty sure no other installation got more attention, or was harder to pull off than what Azimut Yachts achieved when they moored a 57-foot-long Azimut Seadeck 6 in the swimming pool of the Bagni Misteriosi. Growing up in Malibu in the 1960’s, Sue spent the majority of her time immersed in nature, riding horses, hiking the Santa Monica Mountains, and getting lost in her thoughts amongst the tide-pools at Point Dune.

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If you have a question to ask or an idea to share, come and participate in Adobe InDesign Community. The Tortured Poets Department might be too long and clunky at times, but it’s an unflinchingly honest piece of work. Out-of-context screenshots of clumsy lyrics from Swift’s album quickly became memes, mocked by many social media users. While much of Swift’s star power comes from the parasocial relationship she has cultivated with her fanbase, The Tortured Poets Department pushes back against the excesses of the Swifties. The GEN3 Evo will come quickly off the heels of the current GEN3 design, but in speaking with Jeff Dodds, CEO of Formula E, COVID initially slowed down the rollout. With the pandemic no longer preventing development, the design trajectory is fully rolling out.

This is a call to action for the field of Design Thinking and its practitioners. What are your politics and how will you shift your practice and teaching to instruments of liberation? These questions will continue to drive my practice until I retire. As a practitioner, teacher, and writer, I am dedicated to creating liberatory futures through design. Join me for the next piece in this series where I outline how I have changed my practice to address these critiques.

Designers are incentivized to create flashy stories and slide decks for consumption by other designers, to get hired or accepted in higher education programs. The more dire the need, the more flashy the solution, and the more “wrapped up with a bow” the project seems, the better off you are. This creates unspoken expectations for what makes good design, and I’d argue it’s not defined by what’s good long-term for those living these social challenges. One of the challenges of working this way is being willing to acknowledge that despite your academic expertise, there are other sources of knowledge that are critical to design work, including lived expertise.

Together, we developed innovative ideas to support youth experiencing homelessness during the pandemic, families experiencing the benefits gap, and residents experiencing the digital divide. UWSL is a non-profit supporting networks to create scaled change to support half-a-million youth in Utah. To prototype, we build rough versions of what we’re working on to test key ideas. It can unleash our creative courage which will foster innovative approaches to address equity challenges. Seeing the System enables us to identify potential equity challenges, what about the system is producing these, and what we need to learn more about as we engage in empathy work.

For PBS Kids stations, we supported local station teams from across the nation to conduct needs assessments with an equity lens and design invitations to engage their local communities in partnership. We led a week of trainings, talks, and workshops to equip local education leaders in Amman, Jordan to leverage Liberatory Design to create systemic change. We led a three-day intensive training to equip their business leaders with Liberatory Design as a tool for “DEI” organizational change and focused on redesigning performance evaluations. NACC is the creator of a best practices recommendations document that guides youth attorneys serving clients in the child welfare system across the country. They sought to redesign this recommendations list to reflect current needs and increase cultural relevance by partnering with those with lived experience in the system.

” This shift requires you to share power and act as an ally and/or facilitator. In the program, we occasionally heard from guest speakers who spoke about how design could be used for social good. I was so eager for more, but I was one of about four students in my class interested in Design Thinking for its social change potential. So with four peers, I co-founded our university’s Design for America chapter. This was a place where we could work on social change projects in the local community outside of class time.

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Lucy is a member of the Design Justice Network, Cafeteria Collective, Equity Army, and AIGA. We're getting more confirmations of AMD's highly-anticipated Ryzen 9000 processors, this time by motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte that let slip the new naming scheme in a recent BIOS release. Scheduled for Season 11 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in 2025, Formula E and the FIA developed the car. The design is a significant advancement from the current GEN3 car in terms of power, and aerodynamics marking a 36% increase in speed over GEN3 and acceleration 0-60mph that is 30% faster than a current F1 car. With 30+ designers covering residential and dynamic commercial projects across prime real estate in the United States, our multifaceted service offerings encompass every stage of the design journey. As chairman and founder of sfa design since 1996, Sue has led the firm to complete acclaimed projects in destinations throughout the United States, U.A.E, Asia, and Mexico.

Think about ways to build trust with the community and learn from where they are, for example, Chris Rudd, a friend and amazing designer was working on a project related to shared public spaces in a neighborhood of Chicago. He wanted to involve folks living there in the synthesis of empathy interviews, so he set up a “synthesis station” with Post-Its in a shipping container to engage passersby and invite them to make sense of the learnings. He shared what his team was hearing and seeing and asked them to tell him what was relevant and important. This is about prioritizing the design’s impact on the community over the intentions of the designer.

Liberatory Design helps us understand why and how an equity challenge exists, then design creative approaches to create more equitable outcomes. The Beytna Design team will present an overview of the Liberatory Design process, from reflection to inquiry to trying (and trying again). Another challenge of teaching design was the nature of project-based classes. While giving students real-life experience is deeply meaningful for their learning, it often is a source of harm for communities they step into. Built into the structure is a predetermined end date when students will drop the projects and have no responsibility beyond the duration of the course. It sets up a toxic working relationship and is like entering a relationship pre-determining you will break up in a month.

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