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Sep 6

Everyday Speculations for Social Change

This post is based on an article I wrote for the European design journal, Temes de Disseny. The article can be found here, with free, open access. I. Realistic and far-future Have you envisioned the very long-term outcomes of your fight for change? Imagining, creating, and sharing what success looks like in advocacy and…

Social Justice

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Everyday Speculations for Social Change
Everyday Speculations for Social Change
Social Justice

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Feb 17

What is your theory of change?

The magnificent Indigenous researcher Eve Tuck shines her insights into how we all have theories about how change happens (2009). But these change theories become a problem when they remain unsaid, unshared, and unexplained. Taking the time to reflect and tell others how we believe changes are most likely to…

Changemaker

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What is your theory of change?
What is your theory of change?
Changemaker

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Jun 4, 2022

Advocating for Better Futures: 5 actions to make your vision real

As advocates for social justice, we know that a better world is possible. But many people lose energy and commitment when faced with so much uncertainty. How can we share visions for a better world in ways that motivate people to stay involved? …

Future

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Advocating for Better Futures: 5 actions to make your vision real
Advocating for Better Futures: 5 actions to make your vision real
Future

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Jul 23, 2021

Instructions for a Future-Backwards activity: Backcasting to shift the status quo

Here I provide instructions for an activity of backcasting called Future-Backwards. Imagining a path backwards can be a powerful tool to inform strategies to move forward. Future-Backwards uses ideas about long-term futures as a creative — rather than analytical…

Future

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Instructions for a Future-Backwards activity: Backcasting to shift the status quo
Instructions for a Future-Backwards activity: Backcasting to shift the status quo
Future

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May 12, 2021

100 Social Justice audio books available from your public library

I keep recommending that friends download and use their public library card to listen to audio book for free (!) on the Libby app. So I thought I’d share a list of the books I’ve been inspired by. …

Racial Justice

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100 Social Justice audio books available from your public library
100 Social Justice audio books available from your public library
Racial Justice

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Apr 8, 2021

Five orientations to envision and evoke better futures

For my Design dissertation, I am exploring the idea of clarifying and engaging people in the long-term outcomes of social justice work — visions of the worlds we can achieve. Walidah Imarisha (2010) writes about this as she defines Visionary Fiction. In Design we want to make these visions tangible…

Future

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Five orientations to envision and evoke preferable futures
Five orientations to envision and evoke preferable futures
Future

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Aug 12, 2020

Anti-Oppression Actions for Designing in Collaboration

“The more we understand about our histories of both oppression and resistance to it, of injury and resistance, the better we come to know our real capacities, and the better able we become to act powerfully and build real alliances.” (Morales, 2019, p. 65) A new paper, Anti-Oppression Mindsets for…

Design Thinking

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Anti-Oppression Actions for Designing in Collaboration
Anti-Oppression Actions for Designing in Collaboration
Design Thinking

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Jul 10, 2020

Approaching Everyday Racism through Fiction in Co-Creation Workshops

Everyday racism is entwined in the technology that we design, yet we have few tools and techniques to engage participants in solutioning. Participatory Design is an ideal method for bringing people from marginalized positions into the design process. It is a powerful way to imagine solutions with those directly involved…

Participatory Design

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Approaching Everyday Racism through Fiction in Co-Creation Workshops
Approaching Everyday Racism through Fiction in Co-Creation Workshops
Participatory Design

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Jun 9, 2020

Diversifying your Design Syllabus: Recommended Readings by Women, Non-binary, and Culturally Diverse Authors

My PhD dissertation is focused on anti-racism and design, so people sometimes ask for advice on more diverse or socially-oriented readings for course planning. As a student in the classroom myself, I have felt the frustration of a syllabus filled primarily with white men. …

Design

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Diversifying your Design Syllabus: Recommended Readings by Women and Culturally Diverse Authors
Diversifying your Design Syllabus: Recommended Readings by Women and Culturally Diverse Authors
Design

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Transition Design: Racial Inequity in Pittsburgh

·May 11, 2020

Designing System Interventions for Racial Equity in Pittsburgh

Transition Design Approaches — Written by Team Resilience: Hillary Carey, Alex Klein, Nandini Nair, Yuchuan Shan Racial Inequity in Pittsburgh, Transition Design Seminar 2020, CMU Hillary Carey is quarantining in Oakland, California. She has now completed her first year of the PhD in Transition Design at CMU. …

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Designing System Interventions for Racial Equity in Pittsburgh
Designing System Interventions for Racial Equity in Pittsburgh

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Hillary Carey

Hillary Carey

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Design + AntiRacism + Long-term Visions | pursuing a PhD in #TransitionDesign @CarnegieMellonDesign @DesignDept.Co

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