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Envisioning sustainable and equitable futures for our
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Weekend innovation Design Jams where we delve into ethical design practices full of interesting challenges, inspiring subject matter experts and lots of opportunity to learn with others.
Design Jams are facilitated experiences that walk participants through a design process aimed at generating ideas and approaches around real-world challenges. Since complex issues require multiple perspectives, design jams are a great way of gathering people from different backgrounds to co-create together.
Designers, creatives and anyone else who is interested in how to bring ethics into the design process.
How we present ourselves and the world on the internet can take many forms. From our username and profile picture on social media platforms to the emojis we use when we text our friends and our dating profile bio. We express ourselves differently in different mediums, but how we present ourselves is both enabled and limited by how the technology is designed. While using video in online calls helps create trust it radically increases energy consumption. How come 41% of UK baby names are flagged as typos? Even with Apple’s attempt to represent disabilities broader there are still many underrepresented groups.
Digital representation also evokes questions of who profits from these representations? Big Tech companies say they want to save languages from dying out, but then claim ownership of and privatize that data collected from the community (data colonialism). Fashion brands are using AI models to “supplement” their brand’s representation of diverse models.
What could the future of digital representation look like?
With increased costs of living and the commercialization of public spaces, the third place* is disappearing for many, especially young people, creating a lack of places to connect with others and increasing loneliness. The pandemic completely removed third places for many, highlighting the need for social gathering places to hangout as a welcome escape from home for some. And even though it’s been argued that social media and online forums have become the new third places, digital interactions have failed to replace the need to connect on an emotional level in the physical world. An example is single people in Spain who are seeking romantic partnerships in supermarkets by using a fruit-based code.
Research has also shown the direct correlation between income equality, access to green spaces and life expectancy. We are also seeing an increase of surveillance in private and public spaces, which can have effects on behavior and create opportunities for invasion of privacy. What happens when your first or second place is not safe or does not exist? How can third places meet the needs of those most marginalized? And what does it mean for the individual as well as the civil society when we lose spaces to converge with people from all different walks of life?
How could we revitalize third places in Stockholm?
As a group we came together with the common interest to design for social good and the feeling that Stockholm lacked a community of practice where technology and design could be looked at critically using the latest methods in sustainable and equitable design space.
