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)
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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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