EDI Toolkit for Response-Able Designers
The following toolkits -with their workshops plans, we found useful to use with postgraduate students to support planning their collaborative projects and reflection about their methodological design.
Beyond ethics as tick-boxing exercises, or EDI recommendations, these resources aim to catalyze circumspect reflections about how through our design practice we engage with other humans and more-than-humans. The workshops are designed to identify EDI issues and ethical tensions, focusing on the self and team, on the project’s context, and the project’s impact on the wider environment and the planet.
The toolkits were developed in the context of industry and academic knowledge Exchange and adapted to pedagogical needs in years of reiteration, driven by the believe in moving beyond ethical values towards Design response-able conduct at the intersections of four dimensions:
Expertise – socio-technical and designerly
Political – focusing on power inequalities
Spiritual – considered as energy exchange
Embodied – thinking-feeling with our bodies and Other ways of Knowing.
Playful – pleasurable, laughable, illogical, silly
Ultimately, the optimal leverage point of any system is within ourselves: the change can only start from each of us.
