Opening Keynote: Designing with & for Joy
Eugene Korsunskiy
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Relational Design
Savannah Keith Gress & Victor Udoewa
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Placing Relationality
Radka Newton
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Relationality & Design Thinking: Beyond the Human
Tyler Fox, University of Washington
This Story and Strategies session explores how design education can foster ethical relationships with nonhuman life. Ontological biophilic design is an approach built on sympoiesis (making-with), stewardship, and relationality. Participants will get the chance to explore how speculative design can help students explore deeper questions about humanity’s relationship with nature. Student projects have envisioned novel food systems and ecological services, demonstrating that design education can shift from solving environmental problems to fostering new ontologies – new ways of understanding and being in the world that recognize the profound interconnections between human and nonhuman life.
Radical Hospitality, Radical Accountability Community Lunch Session
Diya Abdo
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Critical Care and Relationships within Context of Relational Design
Rachel Dietkus
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Relationality and Ethical Dilemmas in Design
(from left to right) Lisa Elzey Mercer, Eugene Korsunskiy, Natacha Poggio, Raja Schaar, Chris Baeza
In this Stories and Strategies session, we will explore the skills needed to navigate relationality and ethical dilemmas in design through our different areas of focus. We each place value on relationality as a critical skill in collaborative and co-design spaces. We are each committed to engaging in mechanisms for dialogue, feedback, and decision-making that move the design discipline away from a single narrative of knowing toward a pluralistic way of knowing. We will be discussing the ways we engage in design processes that create communities of relationality and care that tackle social inequalities, while fostering ethical considerations, and imagining equitable futures.
From Transactional to Relational Workstreams: Design for Belonging
Susie Wise
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