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2 | Revision Path | "Revision Path is an award-winning weekly interview podcast that focuses on showcasing some of the best Black graphic designers, web designers, and web developers from all over the world. On each episode, we explore the stories, processes, experiences, insights, and creative inspirations of these awesome creators. [...] Revision Path was created because the stories of Black designers and developers deserve to be shared and told. And since most mainstream tech and design websites and podcasts don’t share or tell these stories, we’re stepping up to the plate and providing a platform for these creative individuals to shine." | Racial and Ethnic Equality | - Interviews - Blog | Graphic Design Communication Design | Online Platform | Atlanta (GA), USA | ||||||||||||||||
3 | Design Museum Dharavi | "A Museum on wheels. Design Museum Dharavi is a new cultural institution that celebrates the creative potential of Dharavi, a homegrown neighbourhood located in the heart of Mumbai, India. In February 2016 the museum opened its doors in Dharavi, a 3sq km home-grown neighbourhood located in the heart of Mumbai. Around 1 million people live here, and despite the tough conditions of their surroundings, they are capable of creating, designing, manufacturing and commercializing all kinds of goods. [...] The main mission of Design Museum Dharavi is to employ design as a tool to promote social change and innovation, and to challenge the negative perception of informal settlements around the world." | Economic and Labour Issues Education | - Exhibitions - Publications | Transdisciplinary | Educational Institution | Dharavi, Mumbai, India | ||||||||||||||||
4 | Untold Stories | "Under the name Untold Stories, Ruben Pater creates visual narratives that support solidarity, justice, and equality. This often starts as a collaboration with other disciplines to create new perspectives on complex social and political issues." "I use tools of visual communication to create new relations between journalism and design. I interpret the role of a graphic designer as an active and critical citizen who has the agency to communicate effectively. [...] Design is not some magic force that will solve the world’s problems. Assuming this can be dangerous. I do believe designers can try to lessen the negative impact of design on the planet and use their skills to support solidarity, justice, and equality." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Racial and Ethnic Equality Colonialism Migration Urbanism Security | - Articles - Installations - interactive Media/Film | Communication Design Transdisciplinary | Other | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
5 | Pioneering Women of American Architecture | "The Collection of Women of 20th-Century American Architecture is a special, peer reviewed, juried collection to be housed in the Dynamic National Archive, preserving the legacies of approximately 50 historically significant women—architects, designers, critics, curators and policymakers, born before 1940—who contributed to creating the American built environment between 1880 and 1980." "Supported and hosted by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF), a nonprofit [...] organization—with the mission of advancing the knowledge and recognition of women’s contributions to architecture." | Gender Equality | - documentation through a collection of profiles of fifty female architects | Architecture | Online Plattform | New York City, USA | ||||||||||||||||
6 | Supernova | "We from Supernova Institute believe that for our society to successfully transition we need a post-capitalistic, ecosystemic mindset aligned with public welfare and accompanied by inclusive structures like coops and the commons to relieve traditional growth and profit oriented thinking which is increasing the gap between rich and poor. [...] Supernova Institute brings together embodied cognition, participatory methods, design, makers, mindfulness and blockchain technology. We develop trans-disciplinary co-creation workshops, formats and projects for various contexts. We work holistically and systemically, developing personal competences as well as optimizing societal processes. We believe this is one of the keys to an equitable, sustainable future." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Racial and Ethnic Equality Colonialism Migration Urbanism Education | - Student Projects at Berlin University of the Arts - Workshops - Practice focused and theoretical projects | Transdisciplinary | Educational Institution Network | Berlin, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
7 | The People's Design Lab | "The People's Design Lab was first implemented in the UK in 2013, inspired by the Little Museum of Bad Industrial Design in Italy and zero waste achievements around the world. In 2016, Zero Waste Europe has launched a new edition of the Lab, where European citizens can come together and help change design. A laboratory for ordinary folk, experimenting with design. It’s a place for people who care about reuse and recycling, a place to address industries who create “stuff” in the first place and say `look, we’re doing our bit, what about you?`" | Environment Education | - Contest, "Designed4Trash Award" - where people can nominate the worst products in the market - Workshops - Blog | Transdisciplinary | Network Other | Brussels, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Symbiocene | "Symbiocene is a nomadic platform, set up to question our design abilities and sensibilities, to experiment and produce work that works outside and beyond the anthropocentric and capitalist production of our everyday realities. Continuously evolving, it aims to explore the potentials of interspecies collaboration and look for ways to encourage symbiotic relationships within the contexts in which it operates. The Symbiocene platform (2017) was set up by design duo Gaja Mežnarić Osole and Andrej Koruza who work within the Trajna collective." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Urbanism | - Events - Exhibitions - Research Projects (eg "APPLAUSE - Alien PLAnt SpEcies") | Transdisciplinary | Online Platform | Ljubljana, Slovenia | ||||||||||||||||
9 | Civic City | "Civic City is opening the discussion focused on the design of objects not just as isolated object repeated identical a million of times but focused on the design in the context, in situ created by the social reality in the neighbourhood. There are a lot of new problematics emerging – the relation between design and the evolution of a contemporary urban space, in context of its social, ecological and politic aspects. Design to remain modest can animate the discusssion and treat the equal to the equal with those who are planning the city. Measuring the neighbourhood, timeframes, dematerialisation, we are coming up with other questions as the urban planner." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Racial and Ethnic Equality Migration Urbanism Security | - Seminars and Lectures - Talks - Publications - Exhibitions - Blog | Transdisciplinary | Association Network | Geneva, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||
10 | Fashion Revolution | "Fashion Revolution is a global movement calling for greater transparency, sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry. We want to unite the fashion industry and ignite a revolution to radically change the way our clothes are sourced, produced and purchased, so that what the world wears has been made in a safe, clean and fair way. [...] On 24 April 2013, the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed. 1,138 people died and another 2,500 were injured, making it the fourth largest industrial disaster in history. That’s when Fashion Revolution was born." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Education | - Events - Publications (eg White Paper "It’s time for a Fashion Revolution";"Fashion Transparency Index") - Action Kits (eg "Brands, Wholesalers, Retailers & Distributors") - Free Educational Resources - Fashion Revolution Student Ambassadors - Blog | Fashion Design Textile Design | Other | Ashbourne, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||
11 | Master Eco-Social Design (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) | "The 2-year practice-oriented and transdisciplinary study course is an educational framework for designers that aim to contribute to more sustainable, resilient and fair futures — both locally and trans-locally.Eco-Social Design is not only about more eco-efficient products and services, but is striving for future-viable modes of production, consumption and life – for sustainable economies and cultures. Based on these general aims and values the design of products, spaces, processes, interactive applications and of cross-media communication is understood as an integrated task. Design is a catalyst of change." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Racism Colonialism Migration Urbanism Education | - Seminars and Lecutres - Workshops - Exkursions | Transdisciplinary | Educational Institution | Bolzano, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
12 | Social Design | "Social Design findet seine Themen, seine ‚Designaufgaben‘ in den gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit: Armutsbekämpfung, Stadtentwicklung, Gesundheitsversorgung, Migration, Bildung u.v.a.m. Social Design bezieht Nutzer, Experten und Stakeholder in alle Phasen der Gestaltung ein. Partizipation und Co-Design findet von der Ideenphase bis zur Umsetzung statt, unabhängig davon, ob es um Produkte, Dienstleistungen, Systemlösungen oder aber Gebäude und Stadtquartiere geht." "socialdesign.de ist ein Projekt der Hans Sauer Stiftung. Die Hans Sauer Stiftung ist eine in München ansässige gemeinnützige Förderstiftung, ihr Zweck ist die Förderung von Wissenschaft und Forschung. Auch socialdesign.de ist ein gemeinnütziges Angebot und verfolgt keinerlei kommerzielle Interessen." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Racial and Ethnic Equality Colonialism Migration Urbanism Other | - curated List of Books - Interviews - Collection of Toolkits from differnt authors - Videos - annual Hans Sauer Award - Blog | Transdisciplinary | Online Platform Foundation | Munich, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
13 | Centre for Sustainable Fashion | "Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) is a Research Centre of the University of the Arts London based at London College of Fashion. Our work explores vital elements of Better Lives London College of Fashion’s commitment to using fashion to drive change, build a sustainable future and improve the way we live. [...] We have grown to be a diverse community of world leading researchers, designers, educators and communicators with an extensive network that crosses disciplines, generations, cultures and locations, enabling us to: Create internationally acclaimed research; Set agendas in government, business, and public arenas; Pioneer world relevant curriculum." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Urbanism Education | - weekly articels on blog by CFI Members - Events (eg montly "CFS Open Morning"-Sessions) - vision and action plan - CSF Strategy 2015-2020 - Publications | Fashion Design | Educational Instution Blog | London, UK | ||||||||||||||||
14 | International Gender Design Network | "There is still no equal participation of female designers in all areas of design: following society’s hetero-normative clichés, competences and responsibilities traditionally regarded as “female” or “male”, are distributed unequally. This means: on all sides, the potential of the genders is not being adequately considered and acknowledged. The iGDN is an international initiative dedicated to putting the subject of Gender and Design on the agenda. iGDN brings together – in events and as a platform for sharing ideas, research and information – people from all over the world and from all business sectors to form an influential and powerful network." | Gender Equality | - Travelling exhibition with supporting conference - Workshops on Gender & Design at various universities - Research project (in planning): Gender-sensitive cities - Editing a special issue of GENDER magazine, focusing on Gender in Design (publication date: September 2017) - iphiGenia Gender Design Award | Transdisciplinary | Network Association | Cologne, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
15 | Women of Graphic Design | “Women of Graphic Design celebrates the contributions that women have made to graphic design, both past and present; the site aims to address the lack of public female role models in design, illuminate the ways women have historically contributed to the development of the industry, and build a network of resources that highlight other projects related to gender, design, and diversity.” | Gender Equality | - open, gowing list of ressources including Web Resources, Events, Awards, Current Research Projects, Books, Magazines, Lectures, Exhibitions, Conferences, Articles, Essays, Projects, Proposals, Thesis, Interviews, Podcasts, Talks, [...] Videos with Female Graphic Designers, Profiles of Women in Graphic Design, Remembrances, Education, Scholarships | Graphic Design | Blog | New York (NY), USA New Haven (CT), USA | ||||||||||||||||
16 | ARVHA | "ARVHA created in 1993 by architects, is an association under the law 1901, which target’s is to do reasearch, studies and training in the field of housing and living environment. Since 1995, it organizes training courses for architects in various domain such as handicapped access, sustainable development, architecture, urban’s renewal of quarters – with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Ministry of Women’s Rights, the European Social funds, the region Ile-de-France and the Pavillon de l’Arsenal. For more than 10 years, ARVHA carries out actions and leads researchs in three domains, accessibility for everyone, and sustainable development and professionnal equality in the field of Architecture." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Education | - International exhibitions - International Prize of women architects since 2013 - Collection of Video Interviews | Architecture | Association Network | Paris, France | ||||||||||||||||
17 | PARLOUR | "A site for active exchange and discussion, Parlour brings together research, informed opinion and resources on women, equity and architecture in Australia. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways. [...] Parlour was initiated as part of the Australian Research Council-funded research project Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work, and Leadership." | Gender Equality Economic and Labour Issues | - Seasonal Salons - Parlour Guides to Equitable Practice - Marion’s List: a public register of women in Australian architecture and the built environment disciplines - research projects (statistics, surveys, analysis etc.) - Tutorials - Parlour Conversations | Architecture | Association | Australia | ||||||||||||||||
18 | Banasthali Vidyapith Faculty of Design | "BID is a unique institution that combines traditional heritage with present day needs of design education. With a vision of imparting design education and developing entrepreneurial skills among the women, the foundation of BID has been laid down in the year 2009." "We try to develop a problem-solving attitude and a mobilize efforts in a focused manner. We encourage students to explore how they can use and enhance their skills to impact on the world in a positive way through design. We empower the students to unleash their natural potential so that they grow throughout their life in a meaningful way." | Environment Gender Equality Education | - "Five Fold Education": Physical; Practical; Aesthetic; Moral; Intellectual | Fashion Design Communication Design Textile Design | Educational Institution | Banasthali, Rajasthan, India | ||||||||||||||||
19 | MOWOWO | "MoMoWo - Women’s Creativity Since the Modern Movement is a large-scale cooperation project [Duration: 48 months (20.10.2014 – 19.10.2018)] co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme within the Culture sub-programme. [...] From a pan-european and interdisciplinary perspective, MoMoWo considers women work within architecture, civil engineering, interior and industrial design professions of cultural and social relevance for contemporaneity. The project aims to share significant European Cultural Heritage forged by women working within the design professions, which has been to a significant extent "hidden from history". [...] Disseminating knowledge of women's creativity (from 1918 to 2018) provides a base o re-evaluate the past in all fields of design, as well as to give present and future generations of women wider professional recognition." | Gender Equality | - Historical Workshops - Touristic-Cultural Guide - Travelling Exhibition and Catalogue Publication - International competition - Symposium with two book volumes - Women Database | Transdisciplinary | Online Platform Research Project | Turin, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
20 | Women architects of Novi Sad | "Losing the identity of urban areas became a phenomenon with accepting modernism as a dominant architectural expression of the past century. A precondition for finding the most optimal approach in today’s architectural pluralism is to increase awareness of our own surroundings. If we are missing data on who built our city and how it was built, it is most definite that we will end up forgetting our history of building and our essential particularity and therefore lose the foundation necessary for future architectural ventures. Women architects of Novi Sad is a contribution to this base of knowledge in our city’s contemporary architecture. It contains results of a research conducted by a group of architecture students and practicing architects G91 with a goal to explore the presence and role of women architects in shaping the built environment of Novi Sad." | Gender Equality Urbanism | - Growing database about the architecture of novi sad built by women architects in the last century in Novi Sad - Workshops | Architecture | Online Platform Research Project | Bratislava, Slovakia | ||||||||||||||||
21 | Bastion | "Bastion – Agency Studio Lab is a design studio and an artistic project, in which designers Alexandra Falagara and Brita Lindvall Leitmann research into how identity, norms and boundaries are formed and reproduced by visual culture – and explore artistic methods in which critical theory can be employed in design practice. Since 2012, Bastion Lab has been working to develop, identify and compile feminist and norm-critical strategies and working practices in visual communication. We work with Visual Communication in a broad field – Visual identities, art direction, publications, printed matter, type design, developing working conditions, research, workshops, seminars, lectures, writing." | Gender Equality | - Workshops - Seminars and Lectures - Research - Writing | Communication Design | Studio | Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||
22 | L'Associazione che tutela le Donne Architetto | "A.D.A. is a No-profit Organization addressed to Women Architects and Architecture graduated women which main aims are: To commend, protect and subsidize Women Architect’s work; To help and assist Women Architects to plan and match their work and family life especially during pregnancy and consequently rising children. To fight against any kind of Women Architect’s career discrimination issues. To promote and support career updates through training, studies, research, cultural and professional links with similar associations and organizations worldwide; To investigate and communicate the true financial, domestic, professional, cultural and organizational status quo of Women Architects and related variations throughout space and time." | Gender Equality Economic and Labour Issues | - legal Advice - free tax advice for members - reports | Architecture | Association Network | Florence, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
23 | Association for Women in Architecture and Design | "The Association for Women in Architecture and Design’s mission is to advance and support women in the allied fields of architecture and design. We encourage and foster high levels of achievement by providing educational programming, mentoring, and illuminating career opportunities for students and professionals in these fields. [...] In addition to providing opportunities for networking, mentorship, innovative and informative programming and an array of critical professional resources to our members, we provide a unique way for women to connect with one another no matter where they are in their career and no matter which forms of design they are practicing or pursuing." | Gender Equality Economic and Labour Issues | - monthly AWA+D Salon - Workshops (eg "Women In Design #WikiD Writing Workshop") - Events - Job Database - Supplier resources - the AWA+D member’s source for products and firms - Blog | Transdisciplinary | Association Online Platform | Torrance (CA), USA | ||||||||||||||||
24 | Chicago Women in Architecture (CWA) | "The primary goal of CWA is to advance the status of women in these profession by: [increasing] the visibility of women in architecture; [guiding & encouraging] women to consider a career in architecture; [establishing liaisons] with other professional organizations; [networking] for job placement and career advancement; [advocating] for issues of concern to women within the profession. [...] Our membership includes architects, designers, planners, engineers, educators, landscape architects, students and many other professionals whose careers parallel the field of architecture." | Gender Equality Economic and Labour Issues | - educational, professional, and social networking Events - annual Scholarship - Lecture Series in connection with the Art and Design Society of the Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art | Architecture | NGO Foundation | Chicago, USA | ||||||||||||||||
25 | Depatriarchisedesign | "This blog is a space, which examines the condition of the contemporary design through a feminist perspective. [...] The imbalanced power relation between the genders in the industry, strongly encouraged by the main stakeholders, created a distorted reality in which the chauvinist, heteronormative, ego-tripped, white, male “star designer” model had been successfully introduced and has been maintained ever since. [...] Depatriarchisedesign aims to share as many female voices as possible in the intersectional discussion around Design Patriarchy. Therefore you are encouraged to submit your texts, thoughts, drawings, photos, videos or any other materials, which discuss the broadly understood intersection of gender and design." | Gender Equality Racial and Ethnic Equality Colonialism Migration | - regular publication of articles - Workshops | Transdisciplinary | Blog | Zurich, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||
26 | Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) | "Changing the industry of design & construction, for women, through education and research: 01. Documenting women's work: By documenting the legacies of the women who shaped the built environment, we nurture a culture that acknowledges, respects and values women's contributions to changing the building industry for the women to come. 02. Educating the public: Through onsite educational experiences, we create public conversations that provide current professionals and students strong role models and mentors. 03. Changing the building industry for women: We engage with leading firms, professional organizations and other groups to develop strategies that improve advancement of women leaders in the building industry." | Gender Equality Economic and Labour Issues Education | - directory of female academic leaders - BWAF Bookshelf - monthly interview series with women whose work is significantly shaping our built environment - Film Collection - Collection "Pioneering Woman of American Architecture" - Lectures - BWAF Emerging Leaders program - Built By Women Program, a social and educational initiative | Architecture | Foundation | New York City, USA | ||||||||||||||||
27 | ARCHITETTE | "A collective project by an editorial team backing professional women in architecture.The biography of women architects, one each day, get showcased on Architette Facebook platform, with an emphasis on designers with a substantial CV, demonstrating the commitment and experience indispensable to reach a high quality and innovative level of design style as well as social engagement. [...] This fast-growing list is meant to be both a source of inspiration for young professional women in design and a directory available to anyone who is interested in a fairer representation of the work of women in architecture (such as journalists, professional bodies, event organizers, etc.)." | Gender Equality | - Open Call Architette - 1 year, 365 architects - directory of women architects | Architecture | Online Platform Other | Bergamo, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
28 | Cotoutmix | "Cutoutmix offers original, modern architectural silhouettes for renders with attention to stereotypes and diversity. A free open source platform to provide new inspirational cutouts for the design industry: a new connection between illustration and architecture where inclusion and breaking of trite stereotypes is essential. A whole host of new characters belonging to a diverse, inclusive contemporary world. Skin colour, different ability and a wider gender spectrum are central to this collection. A zingy collection narrated through the use of funky techno/graphic patterns founded by Francesca Perani, architect and graphic designer, strongly promotes an artistic and experimental approach to the amazing world of silhouettes for architectural and design projects." | Racial and Ethnic Equality | - promotion of inclusion, diversity and breaking of stereotypes in architecture and design visual representation
| Transdisciplinary | Online Platform | Albino, Bergamo, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
29 | Typequality | "Where are the women in the world of typography? Here, together, we can gather the many skilled female type designers and their designs. Typequality is the subject of Kimberly Ihres graduation project for Beckmans College of Design. The project consist of this website and a typeface of Kimberlys own design, Typequality font." "Typequality is a tool to recognize and get the word out about female typographers and their typefaces." | Gender Equality | - Collection of uploaded and shared typefaces designed by women, which can be downloaded | Graphic Design | Online Plattform Practice focused Project Individual Person | Stockholm, Sweden Berlin, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
30 | OWA (Organization of Women Architects and Design Professionals) | "The Organization of Women Architects and Design Professionals supports and promotes women in design-related fields in all phases of their professional lives. We seek to:
Improve the professional standing of women in architecture and design-related fields. Promote networking opportunities among our members and related professional groups. Provide support for women entrepreneurs and business owners in the design industry. Advocate young women and students entering design related fields through mentoring, education, and employment opportunities. Support women in creating a healthy balance between their professional and personal lives." | Gender Equality Economic and Labour Issues | - annual Retreat - annual Holiday Party - Book Cicle - Health Plans - Scholarship Program | Transdisciplinary | Network | Berkeley (CA), USA | ||||||||||||||||
31 | FAK | "FAK (Feministisches Arbeits-Kollektiv) engagiert sich für die Chancengleichheit der Geschlechter. Anlass zur Gründung des FAK war der geringe Anteil der Frauen im Lehrstuhl der Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. In unserer Arbeit vereinen sich verschiedene Disziplinen: Wir sind junge Künstler*innen, Philosoph*innen, Designer*innen und Kunstwissenschaftler*innen. Über zahlreiche Aktivitäten wie Plakataktionen, Konzeptbars, Symposien und Vorträge versuchen wir seit 2012, Sichtbarkeit für unser politisches und gesellschaftliches Anliegen zu schaffen." | Gender Equality | - Publications - Conceptual Activities - Symposia and Lectures | Transdisciplinary | Network | Karlsruhe, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
32 | Design Justice Network | "We are striving to create design practices that center those who stand to be most adversely impacted by design decisions in design processes. We work to challenge the ways that design and designers harm Indigenous peoples, communities of color, poor and working class people, the sick and disabled, migrants, LGBTQ people, women and femmes. We use design to imagine and build the world we need to live in — one that is safe and just. We do this by producing work that is based on shared principles of design justice, by growing our international network of design practitioners and advocates, creating critical publications, and curating exhibitions." | Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Racial and Ethnic Equality Colonialism Migration | - Events (eg "Design Justice Jams" with Workshops) - Design Justice Zine (Issue #1: Principles for Design Justice; Issue #2: An Exhibit of Emerging Practices; Issue #3: Design Justice for Action) - regular participation in the annual Allied Media Conference - Blog | Transdisciplinary | Network Online Platform | Princeton (NJ), USA | ||||||||||||||||
33 | Decolonising Design | "Decolonising Design Group was founded in 2016 by eight design researchers, artists, and activists stemming from or with ties to the Global South, as a response to Euro- and Anglocentric socio-technical politics and pedagogies of design as both a field of research and praxis. The group does not aim to offer an “alternative perspective” on design, but rather to question the very foundations upon which the discipline was established." | Racial and Ethnic Equality Colonialism Migration | - Events (eg "On the dynamics and vocabularies of co-option, care and the subaltern – PARSE at the Research Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale") - List of platforms and websites allies and peers which resonate with the beliefs of Decolonising Design | Transdisciplinary | Online Platform Network | Berlin, Germany London, UK | ||||||||||||||||
34 | metadesigners | "We define metadesign as an emerging framework of practice that will enable designers to change, or create, behavioural paradigms. This is an ambitious task that cannot be achieved by what we currently understand as ‘design’. Paradigms are complex, self-perpetuating systems that are co-sustained by habitual processes that are part of the prevailing social, cultural, economic, aesthetic, psychological, technological and linguistic milieu. As these factors reinforce one another, they fiercely resist change unless they can be addressed in a comprehensive and joined-up way. As this also means identifying simultaneous points of intervention we must devise more comprehensive and radical agenda that includes team-based practices." | Education Other | - List of Articles Relating to metadesign - metadesign Glossary (Some neologisms and definitions relevant to metadesign) - Four Languaging Tools (eg "Collective story telling") - Five Tools based on the Tetrahedron (eg "Quadratic Ethics Tool") - Synergy Tools (eg "Managing moments of synergy") - Workshops | Transdiciplinary | Online Platform Network | UK | ||||||||||||||||
35 | Evening Class | "Evening Class is a self-organised design education experiment; a flexible environment where participants can cultivate common interests, develop their research and collectively shape the class’s agenda. Participants reflect on their practices in wider cultural, social and political contexts and work closely with London’s different landscapes. They create their own audience, learn from it and engage with it. The process of the group’s evolution is transparent: Evening Class intends to make the programme’s materials and references accessible to a wider audience. The curation of the classes takes many forms and explores different themes. Speakers and mentors are invited in relation to the current programme." | Education | - Events (eg "Take Care Because We Care" - a life radio broadcast answering calls and emails from an extended crowd) - Projects (eg "AGAINST UNDISCLOSED SALARIES – An Open Letter") - Readings | Transdisciplinary | Online Platform | London, UK | ||||||||||||||||
36 | The Shared Institute | "The shared institute is a design research centre for design, research and publishing, with a commitment to public discourse. It hosts a variety of studios and projects, including the design criticism journal and studio Modes of Criticism, the pedagogical platform Illustration School and the publisher Uncanny Editions. The institute organises an annual series of design research seminars investigating radical pedagogy in graphic design, inviting a diverse group of designers, researchers and scholars, working together towards the publication of the experiments and findings." | Education | - Publishing (eg design criticism journal "Modes of Criticism")
- Seminars - Curating - Research - Commissions and Consultancy | Transdisciplinary | Online Platform Network | Porto, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
37 | Design Research Failures | "Since starting Design Research Failures, I’ve been particularly intrigued by the schism I experience between the way in which failure is celebrated in practice and education (as epitomised in David Kelley’s famous “fail faster to succeed sooner”) and the way failure is underarticulated and undervalued in design research. Design Research Failures is part of the ongoing PhD research of Søren Rosenbak (Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden)." | Education | - Library - list of resources dealing with failure in design research - Opportunity to participate through sharing input online: "In what way has Design Research failed in the last 50 years?" - Blog | Transdisciplinary | Research Project Independent Person | Umeå, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||
38 | 4 T | "4T Design and Design History Society is not primarily producing strategies for the design practice, however as a collective of design academics, researchers and designers. We organize an annual design symposium that constitutes an international platform to discuss contemporary issues of design through a design discourse and history perspective." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Racial and Ethnic Equality Colonialism Migration Education | - annual design Symposiums (eg "Cross (-) abilities" (2017), "Ethics of (Re-)Production" (2016), "Design in Times of Turmoil: Displacement, Replacement, Emplacement (2015), "Design and Resistance" (2014), "Gender Perspectives in Design: Turkish and Global Context" (2013)) | Transdisciplinary | Society Educational Institution | Izmir, Turkey | ||||||||||||||||
39 | Polyphonic Futures | "Polyphonic Futures is an evolving project and research platform that connects laboratory silk research with imagination. We pursue collective speculation to foster critical and open exchange of knowledge across design, science, and art. Polyphonic Futures has been initiated and is run by the designer Veronica Ranner at the Royal College of Art in London and springs from a collaboration with Tufts University's SilkLab in Boston, as well as London-based Arts Catalyst and Imperial College. She ran the cross-institutional workshop series Living Assemblies to test and develop modes for constructive criticality and a suitable digital platform that supports it." | Education Other | - Workshops, talks & seminars
- Polyphonic discourse mapping - Online discourse - Inclusive design futuring - Mapping of technological pathway definition processes | Transdisciplinary Other | Online Platform Research Project Network | London, UK | ||||||||||||||||
40 | DESIGN ACT | "DESIGN ACT is a cultural project aimed at highlighting examples of contemporary practice and discussing these with practitioners, educators, curators, critics and others in the fields of design and architecture. While topics in and around criticality are present in architectural design, this project expands consideration to product, fashion, interactive, graphic, service and experience design — as well as interdisciplinary and experimental practices. [...]. Rather than posing a critique from the outside, this project explores design methods, aesthetics and techniques for mounting a 'criticism from within' — that is, designers engaging with societal and political ideas in and through action within their own practice." | Education | - Online archive - examples of design practice, profiles of practices, interviews with practitioners and key tactics - Public Seminars and Lectures - Publications | Transdisciplinary | Online Platform Network | Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||
41 | Cultural Interflow | "In the current uprising of right-wing politics, the discussions often focus on a view of the world in its present state rather than understanding it as a historical process. Migration, ethnical identity are culturally created processes, which go back thousands of years and should not only be looked at from today's standpoint. Once we move away from the question, who is migrating today to the question who migrated the most. The countries who try to stop migration today are the biggest migrators themselves. [...] Borders are not given but created. Over the last thousands of years, people have drawn them into a world without borders. In our interconnected world, we should think twice about continuing this effort." | Racial and Ethnic Equality Colonialism Migration | - "Migration Network" - an interactive visualization - "Overlapping Ethnicities" - an interactive visualization - "Constructed Borders" - an interactive visualization | Communication Design | Research Project Studio Independent Person | Berlin, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
42 | Occupy Design | "Occupy Design formed in the Occupy London Stock Exchange Occupation in London 2011. Occupy Design are an activist collective who work in and among social and political movements against Capitalism while challenging and questioning the Design community's role and responsibility within capitalism, initially producing the magazine The Occupied Times the group now works on particular projects the most recent of which is a student based anti-austerity poster project Austerity WTF!" | Economic and Labour Issues Education | - "The Occupied Times" - newspaper - Poster Projects - Guerillia Projections - Workshops and Talks - Education Ressources (compilation of links to texts and presentation that expose and explain aspects of the crisis and it’s relationship to design and designers and issues of aesthetics, education and politics) | Communication Design | Online Platform Other | London, UK | ||||||||||||||||
43 | Open Architecture Collaborative | "The Open Architecture Collaborative is a global network of local grassroots chapters delivering design advocacy, facilitation, assessment and small build services to their local marginalized communities. We joined forces as an independant umbrella organization in March of 2016 but our chapters have been in operation since 2005 under the previous name of Architecture for Humanity. We are governed by a group of regional leaders and our board of directors. We believe in ground up action, fueled by inclusive participation. We have three simple principles guiding our activities: Be Open, Ensure Participation, Establish Trust." | Migration Economic and Labour Issues Urbanism | - support for running community-driven design/build projects - Leadership Development Trainings - Volunteer program - Blog | Architecture Urban Planning | NGO Network | San Francisco, USA | ||||||||||||||||
44 | 72 Hour Urban Action | "72 Hour Urban Action is an upcoming voice in the global movement of participatory tactical urbanism, or as we like to call it, Urban Action. Urban Action is a civic design practice that involves residents, decision makers and professionals. It harnesses creative thinking and existing resources within a community to rapidly make places. Through the power of temporality and experimentation, it encourages participation and a lasting change of perception. Through an extreme deadline, a tight budget and limited space, Urban Action sets the imagination free to allow for new possibilities and players in public space." | Urbanism | - World's first real-time Architecture Competition - On Tour: Lectures and Workshops etc. | Architecture Urban Planning | Network Practice focused Project | Berlin, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
45 | urbz | "urbz is an experimental action and research collective specialized in participatory planning and design. We work with citizens, associations, local governments and private clients. [...] urbz was founded in 2008 by Matias Echanove, Rahul Srivastava and Geeta Mehta in Mumbai ...We believe that residents are experts of their neighborhoods.Their everyday experiences constitute an essential knowledge for architecture, planning, urban development and policy-making. We are committed to information sharing and public participation. Bringing together local and global knowledge, we produce innovative models in architecture, planning and policy making. [...] We engage and work in cities through a user-generated approach using the existing condition as a starting point for future development." | Urbanism | - Workshops (eg "Mapping Circulatory Lives") - Publications (eg "Place, Work, Folk" - a fortnightly column in The Hindu Sunday Magazine by Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, which is inspired by Patrick Geddes and analyzes current urban issues in India and beyond) - Exhibitions (eg "The Design comes as we build") | Architecture Urban Planing | Studio | Mumbai, India Bogotá, Columbia São Paulo, Brazil Geneva, Switzerland Seoul, Republic of Korea | ||||||||||||||||
46 | Precarity Pilot | "Precarity Pilot is an online platform and a series of nomadic workshops that aim at addressing in inventive ways issues faced by precarious designers." "[...] Precarity Pilot is an attempt to direct our efforts and everyday activities as designers towards constructing a different economic environment – both through what we produce and through the ways we practice and live. Precarity Pilot is not primarily concerned with stabilising precarious design practices as they are, but rather with creating conditions in which it is possible for designers to imagine and actuate what they could become when not pressured by precariousness to conform to the needs of the market." | Economic and Labour Issues | - Glossary - assembling concepts useful in thinking about undoing dynamics of precariousness and procedures of (self-)precarisation - Workshops - Essays - Interviews | Transdisciplinary | Online Platform | Bolzano, Italy Porto, Portugal Ljubljana, Slovenia | ||||||||||||||||
47 | Equity by Design [EQxD] | "Equity by Design is a call to action to realize the goal of equitable practice for everyone, advance the profession and communicate the value of architecture to society. Our mission is to understand the pinch points of career progression and promote the strategic execution of best practices in the recruitment, retention, and promotion of our profession's best talent at every level of architectural practice." "Equity by Design is an AIA (American Institute of Architecture) San Francisco Committee." | Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Racial and Ethnic Equality | - Equity in Architecture Survey - Symposiums - Workshops, for Example "Hackathon" - AIA WIA / Equity Group Toolkit - Podcasts - Videos | Architecture | Online Platform Blog | San Francisco, USA | ||||||||||||||||
48 | Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) | "Clean Clothes Campaign is an international alliance dedicated to improving working conditions and empowering workers in the global garment and sportswear industries. [...] We educate and mobilise consumers, lobby companies and governments, and offer direct solidarity support to workers as they fight for their rights and demand better working conditions. Clean Clothes Campaign brings together trade unions and NGOs covering a broad spectrum of perspectives and interests, such as women’s rights, consumer advocacy and poverty reduction. As a grass-roots network of hundreds of organisations, both in garment-producing and in consumer markets, we can identify local problems and objectives and transform them into global actions." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality | - Campaigns - Publications (eg printed Newsletter "Threats") - Collection of links to other useful websites and organisations involved in labour rights | Fashion Design Textile Design | NGO Network | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
49 | Bureau Europa | "As a presentation platform and network organisation, Bureau Europa presents exhibitions, lectures, workshops, city tours, and other discourse-based activities in the field of architecture, urbanism, and design. [...] Bureau Europa’s programme seeks to activate and extend analysis about the designed environment, and we initiate collaborations and projects to convey narratives about our cities and surroundings. The topics we address include the structure of information, interiority and the city, food production, security and dissemination, the future of work, the history and migration of crafts (in relation to resource scarcity and technological acceleration), and new economies and old borders, to name but a few." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Racial and Ethnic Equality Colonialism Migration Urbanism Security | - Lectures - Workshops - Exhibitions (eg "The Materiality of the Invisible" (2017), "Intensive Care, Architecture and Design in Healthcare" (2017)) - Guided Tours | Transdisciplinary | Network Educational Institution | Maastricht, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
50 | Cité du Design | "One of the primary missions of the Cité du design is to raise awareness of design among all types of public: professional and public authority actors, universities, the general public, etc. The Cité du design has created various communication tools to address these different publics: guided visits for professionals and individuals, general public and professional awareness campaigns, workshops for young people, publications, seminars and conferences. [...] The Cité du design also works closely with the National Education system: training courses for teachers with the PREAC (resource centre for artistic and cultural education), and projects led by the CDPP (Departmental centre for pedagogical documentation)." | Education | - Guided Visits for professionals and individuals, general public - Awareness Campaigns - Workshops - Seminars and Conferences - Educational Material | Transdisciplinary | Educational Institution Platform | Saint-Étienne, France | ||||||||||||||||
51 | Brave New Alps | "We produce design projects that engage people in discussing and reconfiguring the politics of social and environmental issues. We combine design research methods with radical pedagogy, community economies and DIY making. We create a diversity of outputs, including spaces for making, learning and exchanging; commoning and community-building processes; events such as workshops and conferences; walks; mappings; documentations; installations. [...] In 2012, we registered as a cultural association in Italy in an attempt to explore what legal and organisational framework can support an eco-social design practice that wants to operate beyond the market, that is, outside the conventional client-designer framework." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Racial and Ethnic Equality Education | - Research Project "Commun Fare", "Mapping Eco-Social Design" and "Precarity Pilot" - Workshops - Interventions - Observations | Transdisciplinary | Association | Bolzano, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
52 | Radical Pedagogies | "Architectural Education in a Time of Disciplinary Instability - RADICAL PEDAGOGIES is an ongoing multiyear collaborative research project by Beatriz Colomina with the PhD students at Princeton University School of Architecture. It has so far involved three years of seminars, interviews, archival research, guest lectures, and contributions by protagonists and scholars around the world. Architecture history and theory is taught and practiced as an experiment in itself, exploring the potential of collaboration— in what is often taught to be an individual field—and addressing the challenges and opportunities of new media." | Education | - Directory of Case Studies - Exhibitions (eg "Radical Pedagogies: RECONSTRUCTING ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION" (2015), "ACTION-REACTION-INTERACTION", 14th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2014) - Blog | Architecture | Research Project Online Platform | USA | ||||||||||||||||
53 | Centre of Invention and Social Process (CISP) | "Based in the Department of Sociology [at Goldsmith University of London], CISP is an interdisciplinary research centre that hosts conferences, reading groups, research projects, salons, seminars, workshops as well as supporting doctoral research amongst other activities. Common to all is the exploration and examination of the role of ‘invention’ – and related terms such as ‘creativity’, ‘innovation’, technology, discovery, change and novelty in social and public life. CISP facilitates collaboration and intervention across disciplines and practices that touch upon and create the ‘social’, including, but not limited to: design and social science, computation and sociology, issue advocacy and inventive social methods, markets and economics, biomedicine and innovation in social research, the arts and environmental science." | Environment Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Racial and Ethnic Equality Colonialism Migration Education Other | - Lectures, Workshops and Seminars - Publications - CISP Salon - a venue for academic discussion across disciplines - Reading Groups - Audio and Video Documentation of Events etc. - Blog | Transdisciplinary | Educational Institution | London, UK | ||||||||||||||||
54 | Center for Spacial Justice | "Center for Spatial Justice (a.k.a Beyond Istanbul) is a cross-disciplinary, independent, demand-responsive urban institute, focused on issues of spatial justice in Istanbul and beyond. The center provides theoretic context and deep local knowledge on the historical layers and contemporary transformations of Istanbul." | Urbanism | - Hands-On workshops - curated Walks - Talks - Help Desk - carries out Research and offers Space to visiting researchers, designers, artists, journalists and city lovers - Blog | Architecture Urban Planning | Network | Istanbul, Turkey | ||||||||||||||||
55 | TOK | "TOK is curatorial collective based in St Petersburg and founded by Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits in 2010 as a platform for conducting interdisciplinary projects in the fields of contemporary art and design and social sciences. TOK’s projects have a strong social component and deal with current issues that are widely discussed both in Russia and internationally such as migration, public space and citizens, development of education, deprivation of social resources, forming collective memory, use of natural resources, growing role of the media in the global society, changing political climate and many others." | Migration Education Urbanism | - Exhibitions (eg “Critical Mass” - the first large-scale art project in St Petersburg based on the principles of research of the urban environment) - “Mobile Archive” - a unique traveling collection of Israeli video art that belongs to the Israeli Center for Digital Art - Events | Transdiciplinary | Other | St Petersburg, Russia | ||||||||||||||||
56 | Master's programme in Visual Communication, Konstfack | "During two years you will be given the opportunity to challenge and deepen your graphic design and/or illustration practice in relation to broader social, cultural and economic contexts. With a take-off point in norm criticality, we study how identity, norms and borders are formed through the landscape of visual communication and how artistic methods can be developed to expand your own practice as well as the field. [...] Norm criticality involves the highlighting of power. For instance it implies to make visible and question norms that construct and support discriminatory attitudes and practices. Norm creativity embodies the aim to transform norm critical analysis into practice." | Economic and Labour Issues Gender Equality Racial and Ethnic Equality Colonialism Education | - full-time Study Program, 120 ECTS | Communication Design | Educational Institution | Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||
57 | Eco-Nomadic School | "The Eco-Nomadic School grew out of two pan-European collaborative research projects: PEPRAV (European Platform for Alternative Practice and Research in the City) in 2006/2007, and Rhyzom, from 2008-2010. The experience of taking field trips to study and meet other local projects across Europe led to a bigger idea: to use the budding network as a place for mutual learning – a school – where the curriculum is organised around the topics, needs and ambitions of local projects. [...] The school reflects the projects that comprise it. It’s informal, self-organised, de-centralised and geographically dispersed; non-hierarchical, peer-led and multi-lingual. Crucially, the roles of learner and teacher are interchangeable." | Education | - Book "Learn to Act" - learning as commoning - informal set-up and learning outside of formalised and institutionalised structures - trans-local, a fluid exchange between local projects in different European regions - multi-lingual, a mix between spoken language (normally dominated by French and English) plus drawing, gesturing, enacting | Transdiciplinary | Network | Colombes, Ile de France, Paris, France Brezoi, Valcea Area, Romania Höfen, Upper Fracnconia, Germany Vallagarina Valley , Italy Ballykinler/Ballykinlar, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
58 | REBELARCHITETTE | "Rebel Architette (A collective of 14 Italian creatives) is an italian network internationally connected promoting Women Architects through a one year project, exposing 365 studios, female driven, both on facebook platform as well as with an online book." | Gender Equality | - Promoting the exposure of female role models - Mentoring young generation of future architects - Monitoring Juries, panels, advocating equality in architecture - Book "ARCHITETTE = WOMEN ARCHITECTS 1/2 Here we are!" - self-published digital book profiling female architects from around the world from the 1800's to present day; part of a non-profit project that will be completed with 365 biographies of female architects to coincide with the opening of the Biennale Architettura, in Venice 2018 ( 26th may – 25th November) | Architecture | Online Platform Network | Bergamo, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
59 | Billionaires | "Billionaires is a visualization of all humans with a capital over 1.000.000.000 dollar. The data comes from http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ but the way the information is visualized provides a very different picture than the list from forbes. The 1.600 people are categorized by country and industry they made their money in, this gives an overview about the location and source of wealth. The graphic shows the macro connections of wealth and their origins." | Economic and Labour Issues | - visualisation of the connections between wealth and their origins | Communication Design | Research Project Independent Person Studio | Berlin, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
60 | Women Who Draw | "Women Who Draw is an open directory of female* professional illustrators, artists and cartoonists. It was created by two women artists in an effort to increase the visibility of female illustrators, emphasizing female illustrators of color, LBTQ+, and other minority groups of female illustrators." | Gender Equality | - open collection of female* professional illustrators | Illustration | Online Platform | New York. City, USA San Francisco, USA | ||||||||||||||||
61 | Hello Stranger | "Hello Stranger is a game to turn players into outsiders within their everyday environments. By employing estrangement devices and aspects of play theory, it uses “question-making” as a strategy to recalibrate how players report the overfamiliar and immediate. Played with members of staff at the V&A Museum of Childhood, it was devised as a tool to sense the museum anew, with critical reflection upon the experiences it offers and the qualities it values at a time of re-evaluation and redevelopment." | Education | - Card Game | Service and Experience Design | Practice focused Project Studio | London, UK | ||||||||||||||||
62 | Gideon & Jamie | "We are a two-people studio working in design, research, and teaching as interdependent modes of engagement with topics of interest and need. We navigate the margins of design practice by utilising alternative modes of production, communication, and distribution to find critical responses to issues in culture and education. Currently, we make objects, design books, and conduct research and workshops in the arts."
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