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A fantastic thread on specific examples of breeding applicable interdisciplinarity.
In fact, I think we can go further, and designers can help.
In fact, I think we can go further, and designers can help.
There's a trend here.
In a lot of different environments, designers are realizing there's useful and powerful theories, insights, and communities from disciplines they never considered; and there happens to be a reactionary clash from the communities who live in that space.
In a lot of different environments, designers are realizing there's useful and powerful theories, insights, and communities from disciplines they never considered; and there happens to be a reactionary clash from the communities who live in that space.
We have an opportunity here.
Sometimes that clash is valuable, because it offers space for people to acknowledge, voice, and catalyze a community to make their knowledge known.
But sometimes, we can connect without friction, and towards a collective goal.
Sometimes that clash is valuable, because it offers space for people to acknowledge, voice, and catalyze a community to make their knowledge known.
But sometimes, we can connect without friction, and towards a collective goal.
Great thread. Parts of it I agree with, others make me concerned.
Let’s unpack.
Let’s unpack.
Clearly, the point of the discussion offers an opportunity to widen the tech pipeline; to ensure accomplished black CS HBCU students get their foot in the door. Critical. Essential.
However, it also offers a question that @peterme brought up: so, is Stanford then just an expensive trade school?
You know, I have so so so many thoughts about this topic. I’ll sum it up by:
Great for my @Morehouse brothers, but this story is still a band-aid on a massive problem.
Great for my @Morehouse brothers, but this story is still a band-aid on a massive problem.
You know about those stories that pop up in the news? The ones about how some disadvantaged soul goes through inordinate struggles to do every day activities, and receives the golden ticket to make their lives better?
Like this one, who gets a car from their boss for walking twenty miles to work,
I'm a few years behind the curve; y'all still do follow trains?
Well, I'm starting one. Let's do one about #equitydesign.
@albanvillamil asked if I knew people, places, and tools for equity and design, and I wanted everyone to know everyone.
Spread the word! (1/million)
Well, I'm starting one. Let's do one about #equitydesign.
@albanvillamil asked if I knew people, places, and tools for equity and design, and I wanted everyone to know everyone.
Spread the word! (1/million)
That being said, like equity work, this isn't (and arguably can't be) the definitive
Equity is a verb, like @_ChristineOrtiz says, so my hope is this is only the beginning.
Equity is a verb, like @_ChristineOrtiz says, so my hope is this is only the beginning.
I tried to get everyone's resources and descriptions correctly, but if there's anything wrong, feel free to correct me! (Crit's in our blood, right?)
Feel free to add, amend, include, and let's get to know each other. Cool? Cool.
Feel free to add, amend, include, and let's get to know each other. Cool? Cool.
