This document summarizes a presentation about inclusive design thinking. It encourages attendees to critically question, reflect on, and disrupt existing structures to promote equity, inclusion, and diversity. The presentation uses examples from architecture, experiences, and interactions to show how design decisions impact people. Attendees are asked to note two things that make them think or feel uncomfortable and consider how they can question, reflect, and disrupt in their own work to design more inclusively.
From Kaleidoscope.
Includes a deep look into the 2010 New York and Milan furniture fairs, as well as observations across multiple categories.
www.kascope.com
A Brief History of Creativity from Cheops Pyramid to Silicon Valley: 5000 Yea...piero scaruffi
The two "cultures" (art and science) and the two "gaps". A case study: why did it happen in Silicon Valley of all places? Neuroscience of creativity. Demystifying machine intelligence: there is very little progress, machines are not getting much smarter, many humans are getting dumber.
Focus on an idea in order to structure your looking.
A theme liberates you from a continual problem of choice.
What is the essence of the feeling behind the image
you wish to describe?
Infuse the spirit of the subject into your work.
with unique qualities
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity BLC15Amy Burvall
***please note videos will not play
“There is no win, there is no fail, there is only make” (John Cage). One of the greatest challenges is developing ideas, finding time, and offering opportunities for students work on creative projects. More importantly, how do we move beyond the “assignment” stage and encourage students to be intrinsically motivated to make beautiful things on a regular basis? How do we foster the shift from consumption to production? Even if you don’t have the luxury of offering a project-based curriculum, you can still develop a steady diet of ongoing, “back-burner” projects that gets student to “dare to make and share”. This session will explore ways to instill a creative culture in your classroom, with everything from low-entry point crowdsourced uses of social media to the #showyourwork movement which asks students to be overt about their design thinking, creative process, and troubleshooting and contribute to collective knowledge. At the heart of personalized learning is creative freedom, but students often need a spark of inspiration, a design brief, or mentorship to get them on the road to making. In this workshop we will get our creative juices flowing and explore trends in combinatorial and crowdsourced creativity facilitated by social media, as well as the role of analogue elements in digital makery. You will have the opportunity to create and perform, as well as develop projects for future use. We’ll look at teacher-as-creator and the importance of transparency and curation in facilitating creativity in the classroom. All participants will leave with a "goodie bag"- a membership to an ever-growing digital community of resources and dialogue centering around creativity in the classroom.
Engagement, Art, & Often Children: Gobal Exhibit Forum SwedenMaria Mortati
Known locally as Intensivdagarna:
"Intensivdagarna is Sweden’s largest conference and prime meeting place for professionals working with the exhibition medium.
"The conference takes place in the premises of Swedish Exhibition Agency on the island of Gotland in December 2012. The programme containes more than 60 lectures and workshops focused on everything from new technology, audience involvement, marketing and contemporary art to trend-spotting for future exhibitions and global perspectives."
http://www.riksutstallningar.se/content/global-exhibit-forum-2012-0?language=en
From Kaleidoscope.
Includes a deep look into the 2010 New York and Milan furniture fairs, as well as observations across multiple categories.
www.kascope.com
A Brief History of Creativity from Cheops Pyramid to Silicon Valley: 5000 Yea...piero scaruffi
The two "cultures" (art and science) and the two "gaps". A case study: why did it happen in Silicon Valley of all places? Neuroscience of creativity. Demystifying machine intelligence: there is very little progress, machines are not getting much smarter, many humans are getting dumber.
Focus on an idea in order to structure your looking.
A theme liberates you from a continual problem of choice.
What is the essence of the feeling behind the image
you wish to describe?
Infuse the spirit of the subject into your work.
with unique qualities
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity BLC15Amy Burvall
***please note videos will not play
“There is no win, there is no fail, there is only make” (John Cage). One of the greatest challenges is developing ideas, finding time, and offering opportunities for students work on creative projects. More importantly, how do we move beyond the “assignment” stage and encourage students to be intrinsically motivated to make beautiful things on a regular basis? How do we foster the shift from consumption to production? Even if you don’t have the luxury of offering a project-based curriculum, you can still develop a steady diet of ongoing, “back-burner” projects that gets student to “dare to make and share”. This session will explore ways to instill a creative culture in your classroom, with everything from low-entry point crowdsourced uses of social media to the #showyourwork movement which asks students to be overt about their design thinking, creative process, and troubleshooting and contribute to collective knowledge. At the heart of personalized learning is creative freedom, but students often need a spark of inspiration, a design brief, or mentorship to get them on the road to making. In this workshop we will get our creative juices flowing and explore trends in combinatorial and crowdsourced creativity facilitated by social media, as well as the role of analogue elements in digital makery. You will have the opportunity to create and perform, as well as develop projects for future use. We’ll look at teacher-as-creator and the importance of transparency and curation in facilitating creativity in the classroom. All participants will leave with a "goodie bag"- a membership to an ever-growing digital community of resources and dialogue centering around creativity in the classroom.
Engagement, Art, & Often Children: Gobal Exhibit Forum SwedenMaria Mortati
Known locally as Intensivdagarna:
"Intensivdagarna is Sweden’s largest conference and prime meeting place for professionals working with the exhibition medium.
"The conference takes place in the premises of Swedish Exhibition Agency on the island of Gotland in December 2012. The programme containes more than 60 lectures and workshops focused on everything from new technology, audience involvement, marketing and contemporary art to trend-spotting for future exhibitions and global perspectives."
http://www.riksutstallningar.se/content/global-exhibit-forum-2012-0?language=en
I hosted a session called Listening for Diversity at the 2017 International Forum of Visual Practitioners conference. As visual practice expands, it’s an exciting time for us to share techniques about “Listening for Diversity” that work for practitioners, clients, and communities.
Coffee with a Curator: "The Mind & Creativity"The Dali Museum
Coffee with a Curator - Craig Petersburg: "The Mind & Creativity"
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
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For this entertaining and informative talk, Craig Petersburg, The Dali Museum School and Community Education Manager, explores the creative drive of the human mind through an array of visually engaging images. Following on his 2015 talk about “Dalinian Science, Perception and Brain Research,” Petersburg focuses on how we perceive creativity, from changing historical descriptions to scientific characteristics. Looking to Dali, he reviews techniques for jump-starting creative thinking, and suggests how creativity can improve our lives.
View live presentation: http://ow.ly/WsG030drQFp
For information on upcoming events at The Dali visit: http://thedali.org/events
A slightly enlarged version of a talk given on the panel "Bringing together theory and practice in digital museum communication" with Allegra Burnette, Costis Dallas, Lev Manovich, Susan Hazan, and Sarah Kenderdine. Museums & the Web, San Diego, CA, April 13, 2012. The discussion was just getting underway when the hour ended!
Visitor-Centered: What Does it Mean to Walk that Talk?Peter Samis
Presented at the National Museum of Denmark to a mixed audience of Nationalmuseet curators, educators, and staff from other Danish museums. The presentation addresses responsiveness to visitor needs in developing interpretive components and gallery design. I followed the talk with a hands-on workshop in which participants wrote labels in new ways, observed visitors, and edited their galleries with visitor experience in mind. Part of a 2-day symposium organized by Mette Boritz of the National Museum.
I hosted a session called Listening for Diversity at the 2017 International Forum of Visual Practitioners conference. As visual practice expands, it’s an exciting time for us to share techniques about “Listening for Diversity” that work for practitioners, clients, and communities.
Coffee with a Curator: "The Mind & Creativity"The Dali Museum
Coffee with a Curator - Craig Petersburg: "The Mind & Creativity"
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Coffee with a Curator is a focused, theme-oriented presentation on a variety of Dali-related topics. The talk is presented by one of The Dali Museum’s Curatorial/Education team or an invited Speaker.
For this entertaining and informative talk, Craig Petersburg, The Dali Museum School and Community Education Manager, explores the creative drive of the human mind through an array of visually engaging images. Following on his 2015 talk about “Dalinian Science, Perception and Brain Research,” Petersburg focuses on how we perceive creativity, from changing historical descriptions to scientific characteristics. Looking to Dali, he reviews techniques for jump-starting creative thinking, and suggests how creativity can improve our lives.
View live presentation: http://ow.ly/WsG030drQFp
For information on upcoming events at The Dali visit: http://thedali.org/events
A slightly enlarged version of a talk given on the panel "Bringing together theory and practice in digital museum communication" with Allegra Burnette, Costis Dallas, Lev Manovich, Susan Hazan, and Sarah Kenderdine. Museums & the Web, San Diego, CA, April 13, 2012. The discussion was just getting underway when the hour ended!
Visitor-Centered: What Does it Mean to Walk that Talk?Peter Samis
Presented at the National Museum of Denmark to a mixed audience of Nationalmuseet curators, educators, and staff from other Danish museums. The presentation addresses responsiveness to visitor needs in developing interpretive components and gallery design. I followed the talk with a hands-on workshop in which participants wrote labels in new ways, observed visitors, and edited their galleries with visitor experience in mind. Part of a 2-day symposium organized by Mette Boritz of the National Museum.
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You could be a professional graphic designer and still make mistakes. There is always the possibility of human error. On the other hand if you’re not a designer, the chances of making some common graphic design mistakes are even higher. Because you don’t know what you don’t know. That’s where this blog comes in. To make your job easier and help you create better designs, we have put together a list of common graphic design mistakes that you need to avoid.
1. Equity, Inclusion, & Diversity
… … … … …
questioning, reflecting, disrupting
Mark Campbell & Jess Mitchell
We aren’t going to teach you the 5 steps for reproducing design thinking — they don’t exist. There are common practices, tools, techniques, but we can’t teach you that
meaningfully in 45 min. Instead we are going to do the work of inclusive design thinking with you — and if you have any questions about what we’re doing we ask you to
write them down or keep them in your mind.
We’re here because we want change — so if there’ll be change, presumably we already know we have to do something differently.
We have to critique
We have to openly share idea,
We have to openly listen — to each other, to visitors, to naysayers.
We might feel uncomfortable and that’s a moment to try to understand why. REFLECTION
HOMEWORK:
We want all of you to notice two things during our presentation that stick with you like barnacles. Maybe they make you uncomfortable, maybe they remind you of a
specific place and time, or something you read. Maybe they just interest you. We’re going to ask you randomly toward the end of the presentation to share those 2 things
if you’re comfortable. That is the beginning of change.
2. how we design matters;
and every decision is a
design decision
For change to happen within any institution, the thing you want to change has to be a value; something you practice and continue to challenge and nurture. Inclusion is
not a checklist item. It’s like breathing and bathing — you got to keep at it evermore.
Nothing is neutral.
every decision is a design decision that either contributes to or challenges existing structures of privilege, power, and presence. Each decision is an opportunity and a
responsibility we have as leaders in these public spaces
3. Form ——————> Function
Architectural
Experiential
Interactional
We want to begin to show you just how relevant our design decisions are to the way we interact and “function” in our world. With this awareness, we hope you will SEE
differently and begin to QUESTION, REFLECT, and DISRUPT in your own “designing” of your space, experiences, and interactions.
6. Pompidou Centre
At first Parisians thought this building was an eyesore. They called it hideous, it was the Loch Ness Monster of Paris.
The architecture "revolutionized museums, transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart
of the city.” from Wikipedia
post-modern — high-tech — why is that important?
Paris is a storied city of deep and formal culture — this was a departure from the storied past and a nod toward the future, toward multiculturalism, toward change. It was
met at first with horror. Now, 40 years later 60 percent of the Pompidou's visitors are French. At the Louvre, in contrast, almost 70 percent of visitors are foreign.
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/22/515665662/at-40-paris-pompidou-center-is-still-an-unexpected-trip
A picture of the outside of the Pompidou Centre in Paris
7. Nike Air Max
Tinker Hatfield was inspired by the Pompidou to make the Nike Air-Max with the see-through sole. He saw the progressiveness, the modern, the DISRUPTION that was
going on in Paris. He wanted to bring that to the shoe industry.
His company and his colleagues originally thought he had gone too far — he almost got fired over the design…
Broke the mould literally for what we imagined sneakers to be, and Tinker went on to lead at least 10 generations of the Nike Air Jordan, a shoe that transformed culture.
“The line of sneakers is popular amongst many subcultures, for example Hip Hop, and the working class.” — Yes, even shoes can rattle us out of our comfortable zones,
can make us QUESTION assumptions we’ve made. This was a shoe made popular by Hip Hop…
The Nike Air Max shoe with a see-through panel in the heel
8. Detroit Institute of Arts
Diego Rivera’s mural — he was a revolutionary Mexican artist. This mural shows the means of production; industrialization; it’s in motor city; modern advances (the V8
engine, vaccinations, technology, medicine); this was done during the great depression, (juxtaposed with faceless, multi-coloured working class, some of whom are
faceless; their hands reaching up from rubble) there were strikes and workers shot in the Ford Motor Factory in Deerborn. Light comes into an indoor courtyard from
above and from the open doors on either end that extend into the rest of the DIA.
At the time, in the 30s, there was controversy — it was the depression and why was it a Mexican artist? Why not an American? It was called foolishly vulgar and
unAmerican. The upper classes didn’t like the working classes invading their museum - The Detroit News
In the 1950s they put a disclaimer on the mural calling Rivera’s politics detestable.
The Diego Rivera mural at the Detroit Institute of Arts
9. Detroit Institute of Arts
This is arts education for kids in Detroit
These are the children and grandchildren of the working class from Motor City — 1/2 of the public schools have no music or arts education. They do have trips to the
DIA.
And the staff there are doing extraordinary things with very little.
A museum employee speaks to children at the DIA
11. We shape our experiences, and our
experiences shape us
12. Charles H. Wright Museum of African
American History
reflect on opening empathy — new discussions about what inclusion looks like
sensing, feeling what it was like
Images from the Middle Passage exhibit at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
13. autism-friendly museum hours
just as we can re-create spaces to make people experience discomfort — we can equally think about what’s needed to make people feel welcome?
It’s more than *just* the programming, the artifacts, the exhibits — it’s the larger experience within the space that is created to make us feel a particular way.
A child at a Natural Science Museum with headphones on
14. Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood
SENse Family Packs
The Museum’s SEN scheme strives to ensure that children with special educational needs gain access to learning opportunities.
They include maps, toys to touch, activity suggestions and ear defenders.
And this is something anyone can benefit from — anyone who has ever been in a public place with a child who is irritable, overstimulated, tired, uncontrollable —
basically, a child.
a backpack with a number of toys and aides sitting in front of it
16. We shape our interactions, and our
interactions shape us
17. Wakanda
who is security?
who is the expert?
who is the visitor?
Whose museum is it? — think of the DIA and the upper classes being upset by the working classes showing up in THEIR museum.
Whose history is it? Whose artifacts?
a main black character from black panther standing in a museum looking at artifacts while a white guard stands by and watches
18. National Portrait Gallery
You see, there are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that’s not
a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes from my neighbourhood. In fact, I guarantee you that right now, there are kids living less than a
mile from here who would never in a million years dream that they would be welcome in this museum.
And growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was one of those kids myself. So I know that feeling of not belonging in a place like this.
Michelle Obama https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/michelle-obama-minorities-dont-feel-welcome-museums
relationship with the security guard in the museum — what about this guy?
A small black girl stands behind a roped off section with mouth agape in front of a very large portrait of Michelle Obama as an older black man (security) stands by and
watches.
19. Equity, Inclusion, & Diversity
… … … … …
Question — Reflect — Disrupt
… … … … …
Thinking — Feeling — Doing
what are those 2 things you are thinking after this presentation?
We could consider asking them if it falls into questioning, reflecting, or disrupting? or we can ask specifically how are they thinking, feeling, or planning on doing things
differently?
20. Your work begins now
Take-aways
What are you going to do Monday?
Spend 5-10 minutes in your groups doing this — dive in deeper to your own work. Everyone here should have something…
Start with questioning
21. Who’s doing it?
Who’s voice is heard? Who is seen?
What are we doing?
Why are we doing it?
Who is this for?
Where is the capital?
Who stands to gain/benefit/succeed?
Who’s missing? and why? THE EDGE
Power — when does it circulate and where
Begin with QUESTIONING
— what ideas persist?