Excited to kick off this first Ask Me Anything. Drop a question you have in the comments below and I’ll drop in with answers throughout the day. You can also share signals of change related to the future of belonging for all of us to share potential implications.
SIGNAL: I am working with organizations that are grappling with hybrid meetings. There are now going to be differences in presence at meetings at work and in communities. Some will be gathering in person, others will be joining digitally. There will need to be greater transparent conversations about process and equity around all of this. QUESTION: I am going to be running a lab to "try on" what it will feel like, and to crowdsource ideas about how to make it better. What resources do you know about how to run this type of meeting? I have some handy but am trying to gather a comprehensive database of knowledge about what has been written on this subject....
Check out a lot of the resources that IFTF has collected over the years in our series on online collaboration that we had at the beginning of the pandemic: https://www.iftf.org/onlinecollaborationseries/
I love this so much! I have a signal, and a question related to the signal. SIGNAL: There is an increasing divide between those who can access the benefits of the digital revolution, and those who cannot. Case in point: I am consulting with a network of organizations who educate parents about how to access essential public services for their families' well being. These centers want to educate over zoom. However, many parents are marginalized on this platform because they only have cell service. QUESTION: who is doing good work/forward thinking about how to provide inclusive spaces in these unequal circumstances? I imagine that schools and other institutions are thinking about this. What innovations are happening around what i heard one professor say is "digital destitution" for the most marginalized? Thanks!
Hi, Sarah! Don't know if this is gonna help you, but I'm from Brazil and the government distributed many SIM cards to students of public schools around the country last year so they could access online classes. You can read more here (in english :) https://labsnews.com/en/articles/society/pandemic-digital-inequality-brazil/
Wow the terminology of "digital destitution" is so apropos to describe the challenges. There are so many designers really piloting new ways to think of the scope of design, trying to move beyond products and services into more of the systemic challenges that could benefit from design thinking and moving to decolonize design. I've seen a lot of examples where institutions are defaulting to "low tech" solutions like audio only to enable greater inclusion. The City of Austin deployed buses equipped with WiFi for students living in neighborhoods with poor access: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/us/austin-wifi-busses-independent-school-district-trnd/index.html.
Here are a few different articles/resources dedicated to making design more inclusive:
SIGNAL: I am working with organizations that are grappling with hybrid meetings. There are now going to be differences in presence at meetings at work and in communities. Some will be gathering in person, others will be joining digitally. There will need to be greater transparent conversations about process and equity around all of this. QUESTION: I am going to be running a lab to "try on" what it will feel like, and to crowdsource ideas about how to make it better. What resources do you know about how to run this type of meeting? I have some handy but am trying to gather a comprehensive database of knowledge about what has been written on this subject....
Check out a lot of the resources that IFTF has collected over the years in our series on online collaboration that we had at the beginning of the pandemic: https://www.iftf.org/onlinecollaborationseries/
Thanks! Great resource.
I love this so much! I have a signal, and a question related to the signal. SIGNAL: There is an increasing divide between those who can access the benefits of the digital revolution, and those who cannot. Case in point: I am consulting with a network of organizations who educate parents about how to access essential public services for their families' well being. These centers want to educate over zoom. However, many parents are marginalized on this platform because they only have cell service. QUESTION: who is doing good work/forward thinking about how to provide inclusive spaces in these unequal circumstances? I imagine that schools and other institutions are thinking about this. What innovations are happening around what i heard one professor say is "digital destitution" for the most marginalized? Thanks!
Hi, Sarah! Don't know if this is gonna help you, but I'm from Brazil and the government distributed many SIM cards to students of public schools around the country last year so they could access online classes. You can read more here (in english :) https://labsnews.com/en/articles/society/pandemic-digital-inequality-brazil/
Beatriz, this is really cool! Thanks very much!
Wow the terminology of "digital destitution" is so apropos to describe the challenges. There are so many designers really piloting new ways to think of the scope of design, trying to move beyond products and services into more of the systemic challenges that could benefit from design thinking and moving to decolonize design. I've seen a lot of examples where institutions are defaulting to "low tech" solutions like audio only to enable greater inclusion. The City of Austin deployed buses equipped with WiFi for students living in neighborhoods with poor access: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/us/austin-wifi-busses-independent-school-district-trnd/index.html.
Here are a few different articles/resources dedicated to making design more inclusive:
https://societycentered.design/
https://jacobsdesigncal.medium.com/respecting-our-relations-dori-tunstall-on-decolonizing-design-d894df4c2ed2
https://medium.com/dark-matter-and-trojan-horses/dark-matter-6785556fffcd
Thanks! The source of the term is from Blanca Gordo, my friend. Here is a citation: https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/liberation-technology-seminar-seriesblanca-gordo