A Framework for Change: Structuring Civically-Oriented Design Collaborations | Online
About this event
How can designers engage with movements for social change? How can the design community help clarify important civic processes and support the work of grassroots community organizations? In today’s polarized and trying political climate graphic artists are looking for ways to support initiatives for transparency, inclusion, and fairness. This conversation will help designers map their course, find groups to support, and identify ways that they can become involved with social change movements, as both designers and citizens.
This event brings together leaders from design-based organizations working in the social sector, to ask how they can better collaborate with visual thinkers. The aim is to identify projects, institutions, and avenues for individual designers to join up with movements and organizations doing important work in this area. Designers need to be tactical about the way they work, and we hope to flag ways in which we can avoid the duplication of initiatives, and maximize the effectiveness of the often over-stretched members of our community.
Of particular importance is exploring the wide spectrum of engagement opportunities for an increasingly diverse sphere of creative professionals that includes programmers, animators, researchers, and other image-makers.
We will hear briefly from each panelist about their work, then dive into a moderated discussion on the role of design-based organizations in processes of social change. Following this we will have ample opportunities for reflection and discussion from the audience.
PANELISTS
- Ariel Kennan - Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity
- Mari Nakano - Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity
- Mollie Ruskin - Design Gigs for Good
- Rachel Renock - Wethos
- Annie Hirschman - Progressive Hacknight
- Emma McDonald - Purpose
