Summary. Leaders may mean well when they tout the economic payoffs of hiring more women and people of color, but there is no research support for the notion that diversifying the workforce automatically improves a company’s performance.
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Four actions are key for leaders: building trust and creating a workplace where people feel free to express themselves; actively combating bias and systems of oppression; embracing a variety of styles and voices inside the organization; and using employees’ identity-related knowledge and experiences to learn how best to accomplish the firm’s core work.
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August de los Reyes, a prominent designer who helped develop the modern Xbox interface and became a fierce advocate for inclusivity in design, has died. He had only left the house three times since March of last year—for a doctor’s appointment, for a license renewal, and to vote, according to his husband. He died on December 21. He was 50 years old.
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Is the quest for inclusive design so difficult that we need so many different terms? Are new-fangled methodologies improving the situation if the aims are the same? Many different ways of promoting the process of designing inclusively is surely confusing everyone. Enter “Humanity-Centred Design”. This one is a bit different because it’s about the planet […]
Design for Humanity: People and Planet — Centre for Universal Design Australia
Universal Design Summit is a preeminent conference in North America, drawing experts in universal design from across the globe. UD Summit has traditionally focused on universal housing and inclusive communities. Event organizers are pleased to announce the expansion of UD Summit to include inclusive design in digital spaces. Our current plan is to offer simultaneous virtual and in-person conferences.
UD Summit 7 will be held in May 2021 in St. Louis and attract several hundred designers, developers, builders, contractors, and architects from across the country and the globe. UD Summit 7 will provide exceptional content in the areas of affordable housing for all ages and abilities, universal design in public spaces, physical and digital community access, and universal design in digital spaces. A pre-conference seminar will focus on ADA regulations and accessibility requirements for housing. Continuing education credits will be offered through a variety of professional associations including AIA, IDCEC, IOTA and more. Dozens of vendors of related products and services will be on display throughout the conference. Opportunities abound to network with inclusive-minded professionals from varied industries.
If there is an imposing health risk to participants due to COVID-19, the event will be held virtually in the same time frame. Our current plan is to offer simultaneous virtual and in-person conferences.
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Since inclusion it´s also matter of education, the following article is great to explain terms like diversity, inclusion, equity.
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SYMPOSIUM
Speculative Design: Afrofuturist and indigenous projections
1.45-8PM, Wednesday 2 May 2018
Banqueting Suite, Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street
This afternoon symposium brings together researchers and practitioners whose work engages with the themes of Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futures, and other emerging areas of science-fictional/future-orientated cultural practice in which people of colour, indigenous cultures and non-Western subjects take centre stage.
Speculative design will be addressed in terms of its ability to raise problems, rather than solve them. As a tool for speculation, it opens up spaces for presenting problems, to model alternatives, and to generate imaginative responses. It will be explored in relation to cultural practices including art, comics and science fiction writing.
SCHEDULE
| 13.30 – 14.00 | Registration |
| 14.00 – 14.15 | Introduction to symposium proceedings
Dan Byrne-Smith |
| 14.20 – 15.05 | Keynote
Afrofuturism: Imaginaries, Realities and Practices Professor Julian Henriques |
| 15.10 – 15.55 | Designing a Black Futurity
Florence Okoye |
| 16.00 – 16.45 | Finding Fatima: An exercise in location
Natascha Nanji |
| 16.45 – 17.15 | Break |
| 17.15 – 18.00 | Make It So: World-building in–and out of–Cyberspace
Skawennati |
| 18.05 – 18.50 | Keynote
This Is Not My Beautiful House: Reclaiming Our Futures from a Techno-Orientalist Vision Kelly Kanayama |
| 18.50 – 20.00 | Drinks |
This symposium is convened by Dr Dan Byrne-Smith, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art theory, Chelsea College of Arts and presented by the Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School Public Programme.
Tickets: £8/6 concessions (includes a post-event drink)
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Inclusive Design Workshop
Inclusive Design considers the full range of human diversity to deliver better experiences for everyone. This workshop will help you focus on both a mind shift and changes to your design and research methods that will:
This workshop starts with an overview of Inclusive Design principles, the impacts of exclusion, and the business case for inclusion. The centerpiece of the workshop is the Inclusive Design Practices Framework, an immersive examination of how learning from diverse lived experiences challenges designers to approach problems from new perspectives and to let go of the fictional “average customer”.
This approach moves past typical accessibility considerations to emphasize making products and services that work better for everyone. In the concluding section, participants reflect on how their design and research practices will evolve when inclusion is the focus.
This workshop is being held in conjunction with the Innovative Thinking on Diversity & Inclusion Conference
If you are attending the conference: $300 per person
If you are not attending the conference: $450 per person
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LPK Mansion and Innoventures Hall
22 Garfield Place
Cincinnati, OH
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