empowerment by design
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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.TRANSCRIPT
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Empowerment by Designhttp://deed.parsons.edu
Cynthia LawsonAssociate Provost, Distributed and Global EducationParsons The New School for Design
[email protected]: @cynthialawson
Global Fashion ConferenceMadrid - November 15, 2012
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Sombrero aguadeño“Panama Hat”
Artesanías de CaldasAguadas, Colombia
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Empowerment by Design
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Empowerment by Design
“increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals and communities.”
UNESCO glossary
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Empowerment by Design
...of students
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Empowerment by Design
...of students
...of faculty
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Empowerment by Design
...of students
...of faculty
...of artisans
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Empowerment by Design
...of students
...of faculty
...of artisans}horizontal hierarchies
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Empowerment by Design
...of products
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Empowerment by Design
...of products...of services
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Empowerment by Design
...of products...of services...of systems
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Empowerment by Design
...of products...of services...of systems{
designthinking
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Empowerment by Design
...of products...of services...of systems{
designthinking+community-engaged design
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small-scale social and economic development
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small-scale social and economic development
A new model for aid and development (anti large NGO)
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empowerment of artisans
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empowerment of artisans
leaders and learning
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social entrepreneurs
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social entrepreneurs
non-dependent relationshipsto generate income
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designers
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designers
not just makers
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DESIGNERS+ARTISANS
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MADE by
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MADE byvs.DESIGNED by
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Top of the “food chain”?
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Top of the “food chain”?
The designer
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WHAT
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Meaningful immersive fieldwork learning opportunities for our students.
Students as teachers, as “experts” and as agents of change.
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Meaningful immersive fieldwork learning opportunities for our students.
Students as teachers, as “experts” and as agents of change.
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“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.
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Rule #1: No monetary exchange
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Rule #2: No promises made
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Rule #3: No gossip
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Rule #4: Always keep in mind why you are here
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Rule #5: Move between observer and observed
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Rule #6: Help
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Rule #6: Help
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Sombrero aguadeño“Panama Hat”
Artesanías de CaldasAguadas, Colombia
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“We’ve been told we can’t, but perhaps if someone taught us how...”
Artisan in Aguadas, Colombia
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Empowerment by Designhttp://deed.parsons.edu
Cynthia LawsonAssociate Provost, Distributed and Global EducationParsons The New School for Design
[email protected]: @cynthialawson
Global Fashion ConferenceMadrid - November 15, 2012