This paper presents systemic learnings over the past three years about the food health system, an... more This paper presents systemic learnings over the past three years about the food health system, and presents the shift in strategy and form that accompanies a shift in the scale of impact that Nourish aspires to have. Activating these networks requires enhancing the capacity for health care institutions to work and collaborate beyond the walls of the hospital, and to design for impacts on the social determinants of health within their communities
How does human-centred design lead to addiction? This normative research project explores how des... more How does human-centred design lead to addiction? This normative research project explores how designers of technology are complicit in the co-production of addictive user behaviour, unconsciously shifting the burden of responsibility by deferring to the desirability of “what people want.” These unconscious designers are themselves ideologically “addicted” to the promises of the technological fix, creating surface solutions that reinforce a status quo that commoditizes users of technology for profit. By foregrounding the technocratic intolerance of uncertainty and the need for existential responsibility, this research proposes how designers must consciously take an ethical stance to their practice in order to manifest empowering technologies that are respectful of the human condition.
This paper explicates the design and development of a feminist action research pilot that studied... more This paper explicates the design and development of a feminist action research pilot that studied and supported the launch of a diversity initiative within a major game development studio. Drawing on methods from design research including rapid ethnography and model making, we describe the stages our pilot study followed, including key models and high-level findings, as well as outline the ways in which we collaborated with our research partner in this initial stage. Use of these methods helped us build an integrated model that can be used as a strategic tool to direct the focus of ongoing work by our partner and other developers. By sharing our process, we hope to illustrate one way that researchers might engage design research methods in service of equity work of this nature in partnership with the game industry.
This paper presents systemic learnings over the past three years about the food health system, an... more This paper presents systemic learnings over the past three years about the food health system, and presents the shift in strategy and form that accompanies a shift in the scale of impact that Nourish aspires to have. Activating these networks requires enhancing the capacity for health care institutions to work and collaborate beyond the walls of the hospital, and to design for impacts on the social determinants of health within their communities
How does human-centred design lead to addiction? This normative research project explores how des... more How does human-centred design lead to addiction? This normative research project explores how designers of technology are complicit in the co-production of addictive user behaviour, unconsciously shifting the burden of responsibility by deferring to the desirability of “what people want.” These unconscious designers are themselves ideologically “addicted” to the promises of the technological fix, creating surface solutions that reinforce a status quo that commoditizes users of technology for profit. By foregrounding the technocratic intolerance of uncertainty and the need for existential responsibility, this research proposes how designers must consciously take an ethical stance to their practice in order to manifest empowering technologies that are respectful of the human condition.
This paper explicates the design and development of a feminist action research pilot that studied... more This paper explicates the design and development of a feminist action research pilot that studied and supported the launch of a diversity initiative within a major game development studio. Drawing on methods from design research including rapid ethnography and model making, we describe the stages our pilot study followed, including key models and high-level findings, as well as outline the ways in which we collaborated with our research partner in this initial stage. Use of these methods helped us build an integrated model that can be used as a strategic tool to direct the focus of ongoing work by our partner and other developers. By sharing our process, we hope to illustrate one way that researchers might engage design research methods in service of equity work of this nature in partnership with the game industry.
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