Systems of Oppression Are Designed: Reflections on Harvard’s Black in Design 2017
Systems of oppression, injustices, and inequities are designed. I already spend a lot of time thinking about design and just how many fields intersect with design. This slide from Antoinette Carroll’s presentation on building an equity movement reminds me that every decision, every feature of every object and system is the direct result of a …
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Was My Grandmother a Designer? Reflections on Harvard’s Black in Design 2017
What does it mean to be black in design? Does its complexity warrant a conference? If good design connects us all intrinsically, how can race transform itself into yet another barrier and place us in these seats (also designed)? And was my grandmother a designer? We’re at Harvard–yet she looks like the women in this …
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