A Design Thinker Reckons with Design Thinking by Tania Anaissie Welcome to Beytna

Table Of Content

• We meet you where you’re at and custom tailor our services to fit the needs of your unique equity challenges.
• Workshop 3: Understanding the Problem to Find a Solution: Defining an Equity Challenge in Your Work
• AMD Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 Processors Confirmed Again
• Liberatory Design for Transformational Change
• Evolving the design thinking framework towards greater equity: an interview with Tania Anaissie of Beytna Design
• Thought Leadership
• Design Thinking for an Inclusive Jordan

We will be workshopping with brand new tools and sharing our perspectives & ideas in community. Informed by this progress, we created an equity strategy for leadership and facilitated custom White Supremacy Culture workshops. When designing for liberation, it is important to both think and do differently. Mindsets help articulate our equity values and assess if we are manifesting them in our work. Rachael Dietkus is a mom, social worker, design researcher, organizational strategist, and founder of Social Workers Who Design.

We meet you where you’re at and custom tailor our services to fit the needs of your unique equity challenges.

Decolonizing Design, Explained - Built In

Decolonizing Design, Explained.

Posted: Wed, 18 May 2022 07:00:00 GMT [source]

They were delighted to hear stories from people across the world who were practicing Liberatory Design in their contexts. In 2019, the team reconvened to create an updated version of the public-facing card deck. The co-creators continue to practice and evolve Liberatory Design in their respective contexts and love hearing from others using it. Liberatory Design is a creative problem-solving approach and practice that centers equity and supports us to design for liberation. Mindsets invoke stances and values to ground and focus our design practice, and modes provide process guidance for our design practice.

Workshop 3: Understanding the Problem to Find a Solution: Defining an Equity Challenge in Your Work

It creates default “truths” and views any challenge to them as “making things political.” It creates an illusion of objectivity through the idea of rationality. The values that prop it up are the dehumanization of Blackness and Indigeneity, the control of those living in poverty, and the erasure of cultures and traditions. By designing for the status quo either actively or passively, we are reproducing injustice. We designed and led an intensive training during which their leadership team redesigned professional development for their staff with an equity lens. We have led two co-design workshops with their National Youth Advisory Board members who have lived experience with legal representation in the child welfare system. In these sessions, we learned from their lived experience in group interviews and together, synthesized and prioritized learnings to apply to the project.

AMD Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 Processors Confirmed Again

I became obsessed with the question of how to leverage design for liberation. First, I needed to break down how I thought design was perpetuating injustice so that I could pinpoint where to start redesigning Design Thinking. Design Thinking can overly focus on narrow programs, experiences, and products without looking to the complex and/or randomly chaotic systems they operate in. What if instead we looked beyond symptoms and asked ourselves if we can launch a portfolio of experiments across the system and look at both long-term and short-term emergency support?

Liberatory Design for Transformational Change

She is an expert workshop designer and facilitator with over a decade of experience leading learning experiences in 12 countries for over 30 different clients and over 1500 learners. Tania is a graduate of Stanford University's Product Design program, an advisor in Stanford’s Design Impact program, and a StartingBloc fellow. Tania (she/her) is a Founding Creator of Liberatory Design, a new practice of human-centered design that incorporates complexity theory and equity practice to drive innovation towards liberation. Other manufacturers such as ASUS and MSI have already revealed the naming scheme in similar ways, with ASUS offering the strongest evidence yet with a chipset driver released listing Ryzen 9000. As expected, the BIOS release states that current X670, B650 and A620 chipset Socket AM5 motherboards will be updated to support the new Ryzen 9000 processors.

Evolving the design thinking framework towards greater equity: an interview with Tania Anaissie of Beytna Design

Designing for Good with Design for America - Design Milk

Designing for Good with Design for America.

Posted: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 07:00:00 GMT [source]

Amidst all of this, there was a huge outpouring of interest in a field I’ve been immersed in my entire career — Design Thinking. Design Thinkers were eager to volunteer and apply their methodology to these complex challenges. Last fall, IDEO suggested Design Thinking could help us redesign capitalism itself. I’m heartened to see that there’s so much interest in this discipline, but I’m also deeply aware of its weaknesses and imperfections.

Designers hold immense power over the process and outcomes of the work and yet our lives are rarely directly impacted by the challenge. Celebrate and reflect on the launch of Beytna’s new website with the design team! We will explore together what decolonized design means to us, and share how we worked to honor the earth, our ancestors, and indigenous perspectives throughout our process.

He is a LEED accredited professional, the nation’s premier green building credential, he continues to advocate for sustainable and best building practice. Profits, investors, and capitalism demand growth, massive profit margins, and new customers. We can no longer afford to pretend we are apolitical or neutral because our design decisions are always harming or helping. I am the product of what I am critiquing, and my ability to be a critical thinker has been impacted by the place I learned it from. My goal is to give back, and as harsh as critiques can feel, I am practicing what my field taught me, to question and redesign when something becomes outdated.

I also founded my firm, Beytna Design, and I now work to support social sector leaders to bring their visions of equity to life using Liberatory Design. Founder and CEO of Beytna Design, helping organizations go from wanting equitable products, programs and cultures to actually building them. Design educators like Lesley-Ann Noel, Sasha Costanza-Chock, and Chris Rudd are leading with new models, but if the norm remains extractive, what are we teaching our design students about their obligation to Do No Harm and partner for the long term?

In addition, we are training NACC to design and lead 3 additional sessions so they can continue co-designing beyond this engagement. Based on our recommendations, the organization built on existing equity work by implementing equity leadership coaching, race-based affinity groups, and Liberatory Design coaching which we are currently leading. Engagement in equity projects has grown amongst staff, and groups that meet regularly are developing working norms and building a widestream practice of centering equity in relationships. We seek to understand the experiences, emotions and motivations of the person or community you are designing with so we can redesign systems to be human-centered. Our job is to support you with the frameworks, skills, and tools to create innovative, equitable outcomes. Liberatory Design combines the innovative potential of design thinking, the systemic lens of complexity theory, and the healing powers of equity practices to redesign how people work and live.

The training supported their legal empowerment cohort working across the globe to support oppressed communities. Projects covered transgender health access, opioid addiction support, re-entry services and more. The youth developed relationships with neighbors and local experts, collected community feedback on ideas, and launched their ideas by the end of the program. Several leaders are still connected to us through ongoing mentorship and have transferred their design skills to their professional and personal lives. With fresh, interested eyes Sue absorbed a myriad of cultures that left her with a deep appreciation of the unique and profound impact of art and design. At the same time, seeing places almost completely untouched by humanity left Sue with a passion for what we would today call green living and an eagerness to incorporate her experiences into her personal taste in design.

I felt the teachings were geared at facilitating profit for companies over what was best for their customers or society. Come learn about the emerging grassroots movement called Equity Design, the designers experimenting on the cutting edge, and the ways we are adapting the process and tools. Join me as I share the Liberatory Design process which build in intentionality and equity-consciousness into our design practice. They collaborated with community partners to reimagine volunteering, school safety, K12 parent support during the pandemic, and internal software training.