Post-Disciplinary Whatever

Experiments in Interaction, Research + Prototyping

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If we’re able to make experiences feel good for people at their most vulnerable, most difficult moments, then we can make them work for everybody.

Sara Wachter Boettcher, Everybody Hurts: Content for Kindness, Design and Content Conference, 9/10/2015. Transcript and Video here: http://www.sarawb.com/2015/09/10/everybody-hurts-content-for-kindness/

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Criminal Justice Organization Values

This work is part of my teams efforts towards imagining preferable futures for criminal justice organizations. Through several brainstorming sessions, influenced by speculative methods, we individually identified ideal values of the criminal justice organization we are currently working with:

We then discussed them and clustered them into shared values to strive for: 

These values were then summarized and made into wall panels for a future speculative workshop. 

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Record Clearance Fair

My team and I volunteered with our Code for America colleagues, Jazmyn and Sarah, to support Clear My Record services at the Contra Costa Record Clearance Fair. Clear My Record is an application with a simple web form intake that helps people begin the process of clearing past convictions from their records by linking individuals public defenders (and helping the PDs manage the process) throughout California. You can find more information about CMR here: clearmyrecord.codeforamerica.org The fair was held at a church in Richmond, CA, and hosted by the Contra Costa County Public Defenders office. With a judge on site, convictions were cleared live (with much celebration from individuals and their families) for 300+ pre-screened applicants. Clear My Record additionally helped start the process for 100+ more people in Contra Costa and neighboring counties.  When I wasn’t helping route people to different Clear My Record stations or processing applications myself, I spent the day getting to know legal advocates, other Community Benefit Organizations, and folks running Live Scan Fingerprinting services to help people obtain their criminal records from the State of California. 

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Before the proliferation of the internet, it was rare—and difficult—for employers or landlords to search an applicant’s criminal history...  As recently as the early 1990s, less than half of companies routinely ran background checks during hiring; now, nearly 90 percent do. An estimated one in three Americans has a criminal record, the same number of Americans who have a college degree.

Maura Ewing, The Atlantic, April 6, 2017  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/simplifying-how-the-courts-seal-criminal-records/521964/?utm_source=fbb

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Truth-O-Meter

Politifact released a truth-o-meter graphic after the first or second presidential debate. While a worthy attempt and important information to get out there, I felt like they made a mistake in color coding it according to their branding, not for legibility. So I remade it. I used the colors to denote the scale from True to totally False. I think that’s what people would expect.  Here’s the source link if you want to check it out, or want the flyover information on hover : http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/sep/26/trump-clinton-fact-check-2016-president/

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(Business As Usual) BAU is what we do normally. It's what we're most used to doing and consists of those activities that we're most comfortable doing. When a new challenge arises, BAU means taking an approach in which we're operating from deep within our comfort zone...It means not taking risks with our professional reputations... Business as usual is the dominant response in the face of complex challenges...

Zaid Hassan in The Social Labs Revolution

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I’ve struggled to think of what the best format is for my random professional/ experimental/ vaguely artistic thoughts on my post-disciplinary studies and this is a Tumblr attempt.