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Slide deck from my keynote presentation at the Global Fashion Conference in Madrid, November 15, 2012. DEED: Development through Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and Design is a research initiative at The New School that brings together students and faculty from design, management, and development. Faculty prepare teams of students on campus for international fieldwork during which they collaborate with artisans in emerging economies and local professional designers to support sustainable income-generating opportunities through craft-based services or products. This presentation will use examples from DEED's collaborations to discuss how design can be used as a vehicle for development, and how the empowerment of both the artisans as well as the university's students, are key to its successes.

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Empowerment by Designhttp://deed.parsons.edu

Cynthia LawsonAssociate Provost, Distributed and Global EducationParsons The New School for Design

LawsonC@newschool.eduTwitter: @cynthialawson

Global Fashion ConferenceMadrid - November 15, 2012

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Sombrero aguadeño“Panama Hat”

Artesanías de CaldasAguadas, Colombia

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

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Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Empowerment by Design

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Empowerment by Design

“increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals and communities.”

UNESCO glossary

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Empowerment by Design

...of students

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Empowerment by Design

...of students

...of faculty

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Empowerment by Design

...of students

...of faculty

...of artisans

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Empowerment by Design

...of students

...of faculty

...of artisans}horizontal hierarchies

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Empowerment by Design

...of products

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Empowerment by Design

...of products...of services

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Empowerment by Design

...of products...of services...of systems

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Empowerment by Design

...of products...of services...of systems{

designthinking

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Empowerment by Design

...of products...of services...of systems{

designthinking+community-engaged design

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

small-scale social and economic development

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

small-scale social and economic development

A new model for aid and development (anti large NGO)

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

empowerment of artisans

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

empowerment of artisans

leaders and learning

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

social entrepreneurs

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

social entrepreneurs

non-dependent relationshipsto generate income

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

designers

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

designers

not just makers

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

DESIGNERS+ARTISANS

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

MADE by

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

MADE byvs.DESIGNED by

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Top of the “food chain”?

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Top of the “food chain”?

The designer

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

WHAT

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Multi-disciplinary teams of students and faculty work with groups of artisans and professional designers in emerging economies to support the artisans in income-generating craft-based services and products.

Via small-scale collaborations, we seek to promote sustainable development through empowerment, entrepreneurship, and design.

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Multi-disciplinary teams of students and faculty work with groups of artisans and professional designers in emerging economies to support the artisans in income-generating craft-based services and products.

Via small-scale collaborations, we seek to promote sustainable development through empowerment, entrepreneurship, and design.

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Multi-disciplinary teams of students and faculty work with groups of artisans and professional designers in emerging economies to support the artisans in income-generating craft-based services and products.

Via small-scale collaborations, we seek to promote sustainable development through empowerment, entrepreneurship, and design.

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Multi-disciplinary teams of students and faculty work with groups of artisans and professional designers in emerging economies to support the artisans in income-generating craft-based services and products.

Via small-scale collaborations, we seek to promote sustainable development through empowerment, entrepreneurship, and design.

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Multi-disciplinary teams of students and faculty work with groups of artisans and professional designers in emerging economies to support the artisans in income-generating craft-based services and products.

Via small-scale collaborations, we seek to promote sustainable development through empowerment, entrepreneurship, and design.

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Multi-disciplinary teams of students and faculty work with groups of artisans and professional designers in emerging economies to support the artisans in income-generating craft-based services and products.

Via small-scale collaborations, we seek to promote sustainable development through empowerment, entrepreneurship, and design.

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Multi-disciplinary teams of students and faculty work with groups of artisans and professional designers in emerging economies to support the artisans in income-generating craft-based services and products.

Via small-scale collaborations, we seek to promote sustainable development through empowerment, entrepreneurship, and design.

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Meaningful immersive fieldwork learning opportunities for our students.

Students as teachers, as “experts” and as agents of change.

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Meaningful immersive fieldwork learning opportunities for our students.

Students as teachers, as “experts” and as agents of change.

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

“Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers. The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.”

Freire, Paulo. 2005. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum.

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Rule #1: No monetary exchange

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Rule #2: No promises made

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Rule #3: No gossip

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Rule #4: Always keep in mind why you are here

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Rule #5: Move between observer and observed

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Rule #6: Help

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Rule #6: Help

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Sombrero aguadeño“Panama Hat”

Artesanías de CaldasAguadas, Colombia

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

“We’ve been told we can’t, but perhaps if someone taught us how...”

Artisan in Aguadas, Colombia

Cynthia Lawson Empowerment by Design Parsons The New School for Design

Empowerment by Designhttp://deed.parsons.edu

Cynthia LawsonAssociate Provost, Distributed and Global EducationParsons The New School for Design

LawsonC@newschool.eduTwitter: @cynthialawson

Global Fashion ConferenceMadrid - November 15, 2012

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