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How to Apply Design Justice in Professionalized Workplaces

This 90-minute workshop is for designers and researchers to try figuring out how to apply Design Justice through experiential learning.

About this event

As designers and researchers, how can we build power and accountability in our organizations when “the community” we serve is distant or absent in our day-to-day work? We’re a group of designers & researchers hosting this workshop to help our peers – that’s you! – to apply Design Justice principles at work. This 90-minute workshop is for designers and researchers to try figuring this out through experiential learning.

REGISTER Here using DJN option:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/w22-iskills-how-to-apply-design-justice-in-professionalized-workplaces-tickets-288686137007?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

The learning outcomes of this workshop is:

  • Participants will leave with strategies and tactics they can use in their workplaces, organizations, and communities.

  • Additionally, we will help participants make connections to a community of practice that can support us going forward, including inviting everyone to try facilitating a version of this workshop with collaborators and other communities.

Instructor:

  • Victoria Barnett, she/her, Digital Graphic Designer, International Network Coordinator DJN

  • Yindi Pei, UX / UI Designer, San Francisco Digital Services

  • Adrian Petterson, PhD Student, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

  • Jaisie Sin, PhD Student, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

  • Danny Spitzberg, Lead Researcher, Turning Basin Labs

  • M Strickland, they/them, Design Researcher, Curb Cut Design Studio

  • Dawn Walker, PhD Student, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto