Join the Design Lab for the Designing for Diversity™ training with Jahan Mantin + Boyuan Gao, the founders and principals of Project Inkblot. Register here.
With racism as the cultural default of how we work, who we work with, what we make, and for whom, we can either design for racial equity or inequity at every creative touch point. In this high energy workshop talk, participants are introduced to the key phases of Design for Diversity™ (D4D) through storytelling, case studies and a look at how frameworks are used in critical industries. Jahan Mantin + Boyuan Gao, the founders and principals of Project Inkblot, a Design for Diversity™ consultancy, will bring forth some actionable tools toward cultural strategies that will help you begin designing against dominant culture – and instead – for ALL. Attendees are invited to consider how they can use these high-level critical questions as tools within their own strategic and design processes to illuminate cultural defaults, and unlock opportunities for producing the most effective content, products, services and experiences.
You will walk away from this session with:
- A shared language
- A high-level overview of the Design for Diversity™ framework
- The ability to begin to identify “norms” that are barriers to racial equity
- High-level tools and critical questions to bring into your work processes
This talk is part of the Power, Privilege, and Ethical Responses: Anti-Racism series comprised of 14 studio sessions where we address the question “How Might We Design From Whiteness to Oneness”.