{"id":1430,"date":"2023-09-26T12:12:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T12:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.systemischcodesign.nl\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2023-12-30T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T11:41:49","slug":"design-has-immense-power-and-potential-to-contribute-effectively-to-systemic-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemischcodesign.nl\/en\/2023\/09\/26\/design-has-immense-power-and-potential-to-contribute-effectively-to-systemic-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Design has immense power and potential to contribute effectively to systemic change | Joyce Yee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Supporting transitions towards more equitable, sustainable and fair futures\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

As a researcher, working in design and social innovation, my focus is to understand how design practices help people thrive,\u201d says Joyce Yee. She advocates for culturally diverse and locally relevant practices that challenge the dominant industrialized and western-centric models of design. Joyce\u2019s work includes supporting Asia-Pacific women craft persons and social innovators through a <\/span>peer mentoring program<\/span><\/a>, working with young people in the Northeast of England to co-design a holiday activities and food program, and exploring the <\/span>impact of creative districts<\/span><\/a> in Thailand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m interested in exploring and challenging the boundaries of design actions aimed at supporting transitions towards more equitable, sustainable and fair futures. This is especially important since dominant Design practices (with its origin from an Anglo-European industrial model) can inadvertently reproduce global hierarchies and inequalities.\u201d Therefore, Joyce\u2019s work is aimed at problematising this, but also finding ways to pluralize our understanding, framing and application by learning from other cultures of designing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her keynote will question Design\u2019s ability to meaningfully contribute towards systemic change. \u201cI want to offer an overview of how design has contributed to systems change actions,\u201d explains Joyce. \u201cDesign has immense power and potential to contribute effectively to systemic change. However, this can only be done through a critical and reflective lens, otherwise it risks reinforcing pre-existing inequalities. My aim is not to offer any answers, but to raise critical questions of its current practices, limitations, and offer possible ways forward.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cfZoFH3T_5w” title=”Keynote by Joyce Yee and panel discussion on Education in Transition (RSD12 Amsterdam)”]

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