What constitutes a global design history and why are certain people representative of an entire region?

We’ll be critically examining ‘global’ design as a myth with BIPOC Design History's Randa Hadi in a facilitated viewing of the course The “Myth” of Global Design History taught by Danah Abdullah, a Palestinian designer, educator, and researcher currently based in London, UK.

This class is from the BIPOC Design History course series Design Histories in the Southwest Asia & North Africa: Voices from the SWANA Diaspora 12th – 21st Century. The conversations that took place during the live streaming of this class was in the summer of 2023, during the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the illegal settler state of Israel.

As we gather to discuss, untangle, and unlearn the design histories that have been passed down to us by institutions, we’re also fostering a safe space for difficult dialogues and conversations to take place.

As Palestine continues to face genocide, how can we highlight, uplift, and share their narratives to ensure that these histories don’t get violently erased and forgotten?

Please note that masks are required.

Event Accommodations:

• Auto-generated captions

• Wheel-chair accessible, including bathrooms

Please email hello@designjusticepdx.com for accommodation needs.

Olympic Mills Building
107 SE Washington St.
Suite 231
Portland, OR 97214

Seating is limited, so register soon!

Join Design Justice Network members, Jana Saadi, Madhurima Das, and Anastasia K. Ostrowski, for a talk about The Design Justice Pedagogy Summit, Embedding Equity and Justice into Academic Courses, in our Member Story Sharing sessions and Welcome to the Design Justice Network events. Open to the public and curated with DJN members, these informal sessions offer attendees the opportunity to learn how Network members connect the Design Justice Principles with their practice as designers.

The Design Justice Pedagogy Summit

In this member story, we will discuss the Design Justice Pedagogy Summit where instructors from academia, industry, and nonprofits came together to learn about design justice in design pedagogy and to work on embedding equity and justice into their courses. The Design Justice Pedagogy Summit included panels and interactive activities to support instructors in reflecting on this content and embedding it in their courses. We will share the materials and insights from the summit with a larger discussion of how communities such as this support design justice in design education contexts.

Project’s: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/design-justice-auditing/overview/

ABOUT the DJN Members

Jana Saadi: Jana is a PhD candidate in the Ideation Lab at MIT. Her research seeks to understand how designers interact with generative design tools throughout the design process, how the use of these tools can affect the design process, designer behavior, and design outcomes, and how computational tools can be incorporated in a participator design process to optimize the design of products based on user needs and preferences. She completed her master’s (2020) and bachelor’s (2018) degrees in Mechanical Engineering at MIT with a focus on product design.

Madhurima Das: Madhurima is a PhD candidate in the Ideation Lab at MIT. Her research focuses on the people involved with the design process including how sketching and prototyping are used during the early stages of design, how makerspaces can be designed to be more equitable, and how ethics, equity, and justice can be embedded in design curriculum and research. She worked for two years between undergrad and grad school as a design and engineering educator in a K-12 setting where she ran a school makerspace. She completed her master’s (2022) and bachelor’s (2018) degrees in Mechanical Engineering at MIT with a focus on product design.

Anastasia K. Ostrowski: Anastasia is a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots Group. Her work explores how to support equitable design of technology and design education through Design Justice and co-design and participatory design approaches in the human-computer interaction and human-robot interaction fields, working with technologists, co-designers, and policy-makers. She recently completed a PhD in Media Arts and sciences from the MIT Media Lab and received her master's (2017) and bachelor (2016) degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan with a focus on engineering design processes and idea generation. Starting Fall 2024, Anastasia will be joining the Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University as an assistant professor.

Member Social Media Links &/Or website:

Anastasia’s: www.akostrowski.com, @anastasiaostrow on twitter
Madhurima’s: https://rimadas.myportfolio.com/, @monicarima2 on twitter
Jana’s: https://jsaadi.myportfolio.com/
Project’s: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/design-justice-auditing/overview/

Registration Info:

Event Registration Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtd-mvrTkoGtd1S-f5J8eihqgFGUeYG01z#/registration

Event Date and Time:

DATE: Tuesday, December 5, 2023
TIME: 1:30pm ET (GMT-05)

For convenience, we offer links to these timezone translators to convert to your timezone: https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/ OR http://timeanddate.com/

Event Accessibility Information:

• Open to Public

• Virtual-Only

• Recorded for Open Sharing

Membership in the Design Justice Network is not required to attend the event, although registration for the event itself is required to receive the link to attend. Opportunities to present for these sessions are reserved for DJN members. If you’re not a Principle signatory or Network member, we invite you to sign the Design Justice Principles and learn more about membership on designjustice.org/membership

https://designjustice.org/membership

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Registration for the Design Justice Network Care Pod’s shareback is now open!

Since our gathering in May, rooting us in our collective lineages of care, our DJN Care Pod has been synthesizing all of the shared longings and wisdom that emerged from the following prompts:

• My body wants to experience practices and topics like…

• I imagine these experiences shifting and transforming…

• I want to feel…

We are excited to have you back for our shareback session where we will gather around insights, peer into our journey of themed offerings as a new communal space, and practice ways to deepen our intuition and the embodiment of care as practitioners of Design Justice.

During this gathering, we will:

• Share our synthesis from the somatic dreaming we did together on May 20 during our first Care Pod gathering. 

• Practice ways to listen more deeply, within us and around us; developing ways to connect to our intuition with the support of our guest practitioner, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, of Temperance Queer Tarot. (Participants are invited to bring their own tarot and oracle decks, but not required to fully experience the session.)

• Look towards the next 2 years, giving more shape to the journey we will take together through Care Circles, Practice Spaces and emergent offerings.

The gathering will include the following access supports:

• ASL interpretation

• Auto-captioning via Zoom

• Recording, with options for asynchronous participation

• Visual descriptions by speakers

• Emotional Support people available during the gathering

• Tech support

• Scheduled break throughout the two hours

• Show up as you are: feel free to take additional breaks, have camera on or off, move around your space, etc. 

These experiences are virtual, free and open to people practicing (or curious about) Design Justice and Design Justice Principles. DJN Membership and previous attendance are not required. Each gathering offered is grounded in our network's commitment to dreaming and designing liberatory cultures of care, and co-organized by Denise Shanté Brown (Care Pod Lead), Corina Fadel (Care Pod Collaborator), and Jody Chan (Care Pod Collaborator). You can follow the Care Pod’s collaborative lineage and digital archive on Are.na at https://www.are.na/design-justice-network-care-pod/care-pod-collaborative-lineages 

Practitioner Bio:
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is a poet and diviner from Piscataway, New Jersey who currently lives upstate. He has been reading tarot for 22 years. In 2011, he founded Temperance Queer Tarot, a kitchen table tarot, lenormand, and playing card cartomancy service. SLINGSHOT, his first book of poetry, won the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry.

About page on Temperance Queer Tarot site

Are you curious about design justice or a seasoned practitioner? All are welcome in this community of practice. Come and meet other folks interested in design justice.

Meetup Location:
Lil' America Food Cart Pod - 1015 SE Stark St. Portland, OR 97214

Accessibility information: No steps to the main food cart area. A few steps to outdoor seating area. Indoors area and bathrooms are wheelchair accessible.

Want to learn more about design justice? Visit our website designjusticepdx.com. *Registration is not required but helpful. Email hello@designjusticepdx.com