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Hillary Carey

Tools for shifting problems into hopeful future visions

My social justice work combines the making approaches of design with the long-term thinking of futures studies and utopian theory. And I…

3 min readApr 4, 2024

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An image of a collection of people holding hands and looking toward a fictional horizon.

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Hillary Carey

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…

3 min readSep 6, 2023

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Everyday Speculations for Social Change

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Hillary Carey

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…

3 min readFeb 17, 2023

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A person is drawing with marker on a wall covered in brown paper. She is drawing linked lines and words include “place, impermanence, temporality”

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Hillary Carey

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…

4 min readJun 4, 2022

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Call Forth: “By virtue of being born, each of us has the absolute right to live free from violence” — Dream Defenders 2020

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Hillary Carey

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…

5 min readJul 23, 2021

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

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Hillary Carey

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…

5 min readMay 12, 2021

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100 Social Justice audio books available from your public library

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Hillary Carey

Five orientations to envision and evoke preferable futures

I am exploring the idea of clarifying and engaging people in the long-term outcomes of social justice work —…

9 min readApr 8, 2021

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Five orientations to envision and evoke preferable futures

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Hillary Carey

Anti-Oppression Actions for Designing in Collaboration

A new paper, “Anti-Oppression Mindsets for Collaborative Design,” will be published as part of the Design Research Society (DRS)…

4 min readAug 12, 2020

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Anti-Oppression Actions for Designing in Collaboration

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Hillary Carey

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…

6 min readJul 10, 2020

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Approaching Everyday Racism through Fiction in Co-Creation Workshops

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Hillary Carey

Diversifying your Design Syllabus: Recommended Readings by Women 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…

9 min readJun 9, 2020

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

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Hillary Carey

Hillary Carey

Design + AntiRacism + Long-term Visions | PhD in #TransitionDesign @CarnegieMellonDesign | Coaching & Workshops @JustVisions.Co

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