Racism Untaught is a toolkit developed to facilitate workshops in academia and industry to walk participants through the process of analyzing forms of Racialized Design – design that perpetuates elements of racism. As facilitators we walk participants through the design research process to assist in cultivating learning environments to further explore issues of race and racism. Our hope is to use Racism Untaught to help positively impact our communities to develop anti-racist and inclusive design at a local, state, and national level. This work is an effort to redesign how individuals engage with and create artifacts, systems, and experiences to break down systemic racism.
Workshop Outcomes:
• How to critically assess and analyze racialized design in the forms of artifacts, systems and experiences.
• How to work collaboratively through the design research process to create design solutions that challenge racism.
• How to increase capacity to re-imagine and develop forward thinking design solutions.
In this workshop each group of participants will analyze an example of one of the three different identifiers; artifacts, systems and experiences mentioned in our abstract. Each group is invited to participate in a design sprint by utilizing the tool kit in order to contextualize, define, ideate, and prototype (low fidelity) the identifier each group is assigned. The image below is one example from a previous workshop where the group was focused on analyzing the Robert Moses bridge system described in our abstract.
Introduction by Latha Poonamallee, Associate Professor of Management and Social Innovation & Chair of Management Programs.
We hope you can join us!
Presented by Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment at the Schools of Public Engagement.
Please contact: Latha Poonamallee, PhD at poonamal@newschool.edu
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Lisa Mercer is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Design for Responsible Innovation in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in developing, executing, and analyzing co-design frameworks that responsibly fuel and sustain social innovations.
Terresa Moses is a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown people through art and design. She uses creativity as tools of community activism like her recent solo exhibition, Umbra. Moses is the Creative Director at Blackbird Revolt, a social justice-based design studio, and an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and the Director of Design Justice at the University of Minnesota.
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Anna Cho is a community leader, innovator, and knowledge management specialist. She is passionate about empowering managers and leaders to help organizations be more agile and effective through her work at the Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia Law School, where she is the Manager of Operations and Administrative Services. Prior to CPRL, she worked at the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi Graduate School of Engineering in the field of admissions, academic affairs, student affairs, project management, and mobile app development. Currently, she is pursuing a Doctorate of Education in Adult Learning and Organizational Leadership at Teachers College (TC), Columbia University where she is researching the innovative use of technology in adult learning.
Michael Cusack is a civic leader, labor organizer, and climate justice activist. He is passionate about workers’ rights, public education, and healthcare, having organized with the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) and United Healthcare Workers (SEIU-UHW). He is pursuing a Masters of Education in Adult Learning and Organizational Leadership at Teachers College (TC), Columbia University where he is researching democratic governance, leadership structures, and public policy. Through Community Impact at Columbia University, he works as a literacy education team coordinator, teacher trainer, curriculum designer, and TASC (high school equivalency) instructor for the culinary workforce development program for the community in Morningside Heights and Harlem.
Zahra Ahmed is a facilitative leader, social justice advocate, and multidisciplinary artist. She is passionate about cultivating professional learning communities and has experience working in various higher education, PK-12 school, museum, and community settings. Currently, she is pursuing a Doctorate of Education in Adult Learning and Organizational Leadership at Teachers College (TC), Columbia University. She is interested in researching topics of race, equity, diversity, and inclusion in professional development and how we can effectively engage people to have courageous conversations in these areas. As part of her professional practice, she works with teacher education initiatives at both Hunter College of the City of New York (CUNY) and at New York University (NYU).