A book launch and conversation on feminist pedagogies in design within and beyond academia.
What counts as valid knowledge and experience in design, and what power dynamics shape it? Who is given space and access, and who is being actively silenced? At this book launch and conversation with design researcher and contributor to the anthology Design Educators* Unite!, Ramia Mazé explores these questions, approaching design as an inherently political practice and confronting colonial violence and institutional barriers.
The Design Educators* Unite! book brings together educators, students, designers, and activists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Iraq, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States who engage in educational activism and explore pedagogies grounded in social justice. United by the shared refusal to accept design education as it currently exists, the collected contributions share situated approaches to disability justice, queering design methodologies, trans pedagogies, and collaborations with social movements.
The event will be moderated by Futuress editors and publishers Mio Kojima and Maya Ober.
Event language: English.
Image: Scans from the Design Educators* Unite! book designed by Studio Amanda Haas.
Ramia Mazé (she/her) is a design researcher focusing on participatory, critical, and politically engaged design practices, “research through design,” and feminist epistemologies. A designer and architect by training, she also holds a Ph.D. in Interaction Design. She has led, published, and exhibited widely through major practice-based design research projects. She is Professor in Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability at the University of the Arts London in England. Previously, she was a professor and Head of Education in the Department of Design at Aalto University in Finland, and prior to that, she worked at Konstfack, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, D! Designfakulteten, and the Interactive Institute in Sweden.
Event info:
Please note that this event takes place on-site-only.
The event is part of the Design in/for Transformations symposium organized by the Institute of Design Research (HKB), Bern, Switzerland, as part of a joint event of the Swiss Design Network (SDN) and the Junior Design Research Conference (JDRC).
Registration:
No registration needed.
Venue address:
The event takes place at EventFabrik Bern, which is located at Fabrikstrasse 12 on the VonRoll campus of the University of Bern and the Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. (Map)
Accessibility:
The venue is fully accessible for people with reduced mobility. Lifts are available to access all floors.
Childcare is available upon request. Please let the symposium organizers know as soon as possible via info@designtransformations.ch with the object of your message “Childcare SUPPORT”.
Find more info on the symposium’s website.
