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1	2021 secretariat summer reading list
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3		Here at the Secretariat, we have taken some time off to rest, reflect and enjoy the briefest of Montréal summers. The theme of this year's International Design Day (Design for Each and All) has influenced our reading in past months but other subjects, including the pandemic and the recent push for sustainable futures resulting from many countries' rebuilding strategies, have also added to the mix. Thiese are long-form think pieces, podcasts and books as welll as articles, videos and other ressources that have our thinking. We hope you enjoy the deep dive as much as us!
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6	1	Broken Natures	2021	MoMA	Sustainability	https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/542	[PODCAST] A four-episode series, hosted by senior curator of the Museum of Modern Art, Department of Architecture and Design, Paola Antonelli, examining our fragile ties to the environment.
7	2	Camera Obscura: Beyond the lens of user-centered design	2021	Alexis Lloyd	User-Centered Design	https://alexis.medium.com/camera-obscura-beyond-the-lens-of-user-centered-design-631bb4f37594	Prior to the development of user-centered design, technological experiences were primarily designed through the lens of business needs. A reaction to the blind spots of this lens, User-centered design (UCD) was developed but the author argues that UCD has a tendency to obscure the experiences of other participants in the systems we design — those who aren’t end users, per se, but who interact with or are affected by the system.
8	3	Can fashion ever be sustainable?	2020	Christine Ro	Sustainability	https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200310-sustainable-fashion-how-to-buy-clothes-good-for-the-climate	Part of the BBC series 'Smart Guide to Climate Change' a look at the issues surrounding the high environmental impact of the fashion industry.
9	4	Companies need to design the future—not just react to it	2021	Sebastian Buck	Futures	https://www.fastcompany.com/90622247/companies-need-to-design-the-future-not-just-react-to-it	Buck challenges designers to step out of the short term view and "design for the next quarter (century)".
10	5	Design Emergency discusses innovations that are crucial in the age of pandemic	2021	Meghna Mehta	Social Design	https://www.stirworld.com/see-features-design-emergency-discusses-innovations-that-are-crucial-in-the-age-of-pandemic	Design Emergency is a collaborative initiative between Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Alice Rawsthorn, design critic and author of Design as an Attitude. The platform is a response to explore design’s impact on the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic that we are facing today as well as its aftermath.
11	6	Design Justice	2020	Sasha Costanza-Chock	Design for All	https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/design-justice	[BOOK] An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.
12	7	Design Practices: “Nothing about Us without Us”	2020	Sasha Costanza-Chock	Design for All	https://design-justice.pubpub.org/pub/cfohnud7/release/2	Lack of diversity within the tech industry results in tech solutions that only address the needs of a small segment of the world.
13	8	Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo	2018	Natasha Iskander	Design Thinking	https://hbr.org/2018/09/design-thinking-is-fundamentally-conservative-and-preserves-the-status-quo?fbclid=IwAR3YsBFbwbpr2Ovyh3E2skGMcIGi-tTp2Ru7Nql7hgOYvNm86luPN7zK__U	This article from the Harvard Business Review proposes that Design Thinking is, at its core, a strategy to preserve and defend the status-quo. They posit that Design Thinking privileges the designer above the users and those impacted by the designs, therefore, limiting its capacity to approach challenges characterized by a high degree of uncertainty like climate change.
14	9	Developing our new Systemic Design Framework	2021	Cat Drew	System Design	https://medium.com/design-council/developing-our-new-systemic-design-framework-e0f74fe118f7	At the intersection between design and systems theory, the UK Design Council explores how design principles can be applied in concrete ways to what are traditionally considered 'social' problems.
15	10	Ethical Fashion Podcast	2021	Simone Cipriani	Ethical Design	https://ethicalfashioninitiative.org/podcast	[PODCAST] Cipriani is UN Officer, Founder and Head of the Ethical Fashion Initiative. The podcast series covers different issues to do with ethical fashion.
16	11	On the Future and why justice is more important than innovation.	2021	Alicia Kennedy	Futures	https://www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-future	Not an article on design (the writer is a food writer) but an interesting meditation on how the ethos of innovation that is prized above all else in the tech sector is in fact at the expense of both the craft and actual justice for users.
17	12	Ontological Design Has Become Influential In Design Academia – But What Is It?	2021	JP Hartnett	Design Theory	https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/ontological-design-is-popular-in-design-academia-but-what-is-it/	Design educators are currently grappling with the vexing task of teaching design amidst the escalation of various overlapping global crises: racism, poverty, precarious employment, mental health, climate change, to name just a few, all compounded by the effects of the global pandemic. “Ontological design” proposes — according to one of its leading proponents Anne-Marie Willis — that “we design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us”.
18	13	Renting clothing is worse for the planet than just throwing it away, study shows	2021	Elizabeth Segran	Sustainability	https://www.fastcompany.com/90651753/renting-clothing-is-worse-for-the-planet-than-just-throwing-it-away-study-shows	The “circular economy” has been a buzzy phrase in the fashion industry, thanks to organizations like the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which have championed it. But many brands often misuse it to give themselves a halo of sustainability, without fully embracing the concept.
19	14	Rereading Victor Papanek’s “Design for the Real World”	2012	Christopher Hawthorne	Sustainability	https://www.metropolismag.com/ideas/rereading-design-for-the-real-world/	Vienna-born designer Victor Papanek published 'Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change' in 1971, with an introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller. An indictment of the designer's role in the degradation of the planet, the author asks why Papanek’s critique of the profession still reads as if it were written today?
20	15	Review of 'Clothes in Conversation'	2021	Briony Wright	Design for All	https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/pkdnq7/this-film-explores-the-unique-experience-of-designing-fashion-for-diverse-models	Clothes in Conversation' follows the inspiring process of six Japanese designers creating adaptive garments for people of different abilities. Review and link to youtube video.
21	16	Social model of disability		Scope	Design for All	https://www.scope.org.uk/about-us/social-model-of-disability/	Scope is a disability equality charity in the UK that provides practical information and campaign relentlessly to create a fairer society. In this article they posit that it is the spaces that are disabled, not the individuals. They propose a new framework for approaching designing for disability.
22	17	The climate crisis requires a new culture and politics, not just new tech	2021	Peter Sutoris	Sustainability	https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/24/climate-change-crisis-culture-politics-technology	"This moment calls for humility – we cannot innovate ourselves out of this mess" states the author. He posits that the current narrative focuses on the symptoms, not the causes of environmental decay. The solution needs to address the root source and calls for a shift in values.
23	18	The Design Dimension	2021	BBC	General	https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04t6nbr/episodes/player	[PODCAST[ BBC series that looks at the world we inhabit through the lens of design.
24	19	The most popular design thinking strategy is BS	2021	Tricia Wang	Design Thinking	https://www.fastcompany.com/90649969/the-most-popular-design-thinking-strategy-is-bs	"Disingenuous" and "disconnected" the practice of 'How might we?' (HMW) can obscure structural problems in design challenges and yeild miopic results. Applying a corporate innovation tools to tackle complex issues exacerbates solutionism, which is rife in tech.
25	20	The No. 1 thing you’re getting wrong about inclusive design	2019	Kat Holmes	Design for All	https://www.fastcompany.com/90243282/the-no-1-thing-youre-getting-wrong-about-inclusive-design	An essay adapted from the book 'Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design' (MIT Press, 2018). Holmes defines an inclusive designer is someone, arguably anyone, who recognizes and remedies mismatched interactions between people and their world. They seek out the expertise of people who navigate exclusionary designs
26	21	The Unsustainability of Solving the Wrong Problems	2016	Steinar Valade-Amland	Sustainability	https://www.designdenmark.dk/2021/04/05/the-unsustainability-of-solving-the-wrong-problems/	Valade-Amland discusses the appropriateness of applied design thinking in the early phases of projects aiming at developing new or improving existing products, services and systems – and the price of not doing so.
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