Coffee Farms as Design Labs: Manifesting Equity x Design Principles in Practice
New forms of co-design, as a mechanism for collaboration with historically marginalized communities, continue to emerge. From short academic experiences to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, these programs attempt to highlight the value and importance of co-design in reducing equity...
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| author | Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pedro Chong Lu Ming, Rubez |
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| description | New forms of co-design, as a mechanism for collaboration with historically marginalized communities, continue to emerge. From short academic experiences to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, these programs attempt to highlight the value and importance of co-design in reducing equity gaps, producing relevant outcomes, and broadening participation across stakeholders. In doing so, these initiatives run at risk of reproducing a variety of challenges related to power, ethics, and gender among others, therefore requiring continuous examination and experimentation to address such issues. In this paper, we analyze the implementation of an interdisciplinary course in design carried out at two coffee farms in rural Colombia. Using the EquityXDesign framework, we critically analyze how the course approaches these known challenges in community-based design, and discuss modifications to the framework towards more inclusive and equity-driven design. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1277862025-02-06T18:44:50Z Coffee Farms as Design Labs: Manifesting Equity x Design Principles in Practice Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pedro Chong Lu Ming, Rubez Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Civic Media co-design participatory design equity coffee New forms of co-design, as a mechanism for collaboration with historically marginalized communities, continue to emerge. From short academic experiences to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, these programs attempt to highlight the value and importance of co-design in reducing equity gaps, producing relevant outcomes, and broadening participation across stakeholders. In doing so, these initiatives run at risk of reproducing a variety of challenges related to power, ethics, and gender among others, therefore requiring continuous examination and experimentation to address such issues. In this paper, we analyze the implementation of an interdisciplinary course in design carried out at two coffee farms in rural Colombia. Using the EquityXDesign framework, we critically analyze how the course approaches these known challenges in community-based design, and discuss modifications to the framework towards more inclusive and equity-driven design. 2020-10-01T15:29:09Z 2020-10-01T15:29:09Z 2020-08-11 Article 2398-3132 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127786 en_US Volume 1; Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ application/pdf Design Research Society |
| spellingShingle | co-design participatory design equity coffee Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pedro Chong Lu Ming, Rubez Coffee Farms as Design Labs: Manifesting Equity x Design Principles in Practice |
| title | Coffee Farms as Design Labs: Manifesting Equity x Design Principles in Practice |
| title_full | Coffee Farms as Design Labs: Manifesting Equity x Design Principles in Practice |
| title_fullStr | Coffee Farms as Design Labs: Manifesting Equity x Design Principles in Practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coffee Farms as Design Labs: Manifesting Equity x Design Principles in Practice |
| title_short | Coffee Farms as Design Labs: Manifesting Equity x Design Principles in Practice |
| title_sort | coffee farms as design labs manifesting equity x design principles in practice |
| topic | co-design participatory design equity coffee |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127786 |
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