In this episode, Russell and Dennis talk to Hildreth England, a T-shaped Social Design Researcher from Texas, about non-neutrality in design, the future role of the designer, and place-based belonging.
Show notes:
On non-neutrality:
1 - Melvin Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Trchnology, via the always excellent LM Sacasas: https://thefrailestthing.com/2011/08/25/kranzbergs-six-laws-of-technology-a-metaphor-and-a-story/
2 - Donna Haraway’s quote comes from A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.
To dig into designer positionality, recommend this paper/tools by Noel & Pavia: https://uxpajournal.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/pdf/JUS_Noel_Feb2021.pdf
Mike Monteiro’s excellent Design is a Job: https://www.designisajob.com/
Mule Design’s other half, Erika Hall, and her book Just Enough Research https://abookapart.com/products/just-enough-research (& their framework: https://www.muledesign.com/blog/design-research-framework)
Follow Cameron Tonkinwise: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-tonkinwise-80a5987?
More about everyone is a designer, and co-design:
1 - Design Justice principles https://designjustice.org/read-the-principles.
2 - KA McKercher’s Beyond Sticky Notes: https://www.beyondstickynotes.com/
…and her excellent post on a designer’s scope of practice: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-designers-need-scope-practice-ka-mckercher-vl9uc?