#liberatorydesign

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller  

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Social Justice Superhero for the taking and trying. 50 zines were dropped off Brett Hart M.S., one of OUSD’s Grab & Go locations. If this is your spot or naighborhood, please take one for each of your students at home ages 11-24. I’ll try to have more for next Tuesday. This unit was orginally designed for middle school students in 2014 to use design practices to locate their inner social justice super hero. It has recently been revised, designed with a particular “user” in mind: those at the margins of doing equity/social justice Work--white boys ages 11-24. After deep empathy work with this demographic, this new version emerged with a goal of inviting their equity-centered creative courage to see themselves as agents for liberating change. We at DSX feel all might benefit from trying it too. If you try it, please send feedback so it/we can improve! If you have a printer, make some! Share them with a friend or neighbor or even drop some off at your local school. The PDF can be found under Tools on the website. #liberatorydesign #socialjusticesuperhero #dsxoak #x-shapedhumans (at Harte Bret Middle School) https://www.instagram.com/p/B968babheu9/?igshid=owido3faf4mv

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DSX would like to offer the Social Justice Superhero Project. It was designed for 11-24 year-olds to help see themselves self as change-agents in their world. This project invites them to develop Liberatory Design Mindsets to explore their superpowers, emotions, beliefs, community, creativity, and leadership in relationship with their world in order to build a strong sense of purpose in designing for equity. (Foldable ‘zine HERE). If a printer is not available to you please contact DSX and we will send you some or you can use the link to draw your own ‘zine with paper and pen!

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Forget about T-shaped people. We need X-shaped people. 

In 2010, Tim Brown, the co-founder of IDEO, proposed the idea of a T-shaped person: someone with both depth and breadth of skills. What makes a T-shaped person special is empathy. But our world of ever-increasing complexity calls for people who bring more than empathy and more than knowledge. In this thought-provoking talk, David Clifford offers a new model to build embodied, purposeful, self-aware, ethical, creative people.  This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Who Should You Follow in Equity Design?

On building a community of revolutionaries.

Yes!

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#liberatorydesign + Maker Mindset + Computer Science = exciting learning partnership with Caliber Public School and #dsxoak Today, Systemic Equity Designer @corrhui and David listen for needs with AP Michelle from Beta campus in Richmond, CA. So fun! https://www.instagram.com/p/BnuK3oAlyNt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rd10td6axa43

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Equity + Inclusion Drive Bassett High School + Design School X Project

Segment 1: Bassett High School Principal Gabriel Fernandez and Design School X (DSX) founder and executive director David Clifford have begun a learning partnership that seeks to redesign high school so that it is more centered on student equity and inclusion. Fernandez and Clifford discuss the formative steps they are taking at the classroom level

Exciting learning partnership happening!

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Teachers at @BassettUSD bias toward experimentation and design for joy and invitation of student voice on the first day back to school. Just last week they were practicing #liberatorydesign for the first time, and now...Dang! Thank you @BHS_Director Gabriel Fernandez for modeling creative courage.