Sick and Tired: Reflections on Design, Illness, and the Fight for Racial Justice

Designer and social worker, De Nichols, capstoned Design Futures Forum with a reflective talk about sustaining personal and collective well-being in the fight for racial healing and justice in the United States. De shared lessons from civil rights leaders and fused insights from her personal challenges of navigating design activism with a chronic illness. By introducing a framework to assess the collective trauma in the built environment, De proposed a set of provocations that designers might consider as they design toward a more just and healthy future.

Video: Sticky Note to Self on Equity & Erasure

Sometimes we have to do a gut-check to make sure we are not reducing the values and principles of social progress into mere buzzwords. In this Sticky Note to Self video, I talk about one of these words—equity—and reflect on some of the reasons why misuse/overuse seems so prevalent. Watch.

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