Relational design and the contradiction of oppression
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The document discusses relational design as a means to confront and counteract oppression through creative practices. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the relationships between humans and objects, advocating for long-term, liberating design interactions that challenge centralizing patterns tied to systemic oppression. The text outlines initiatives from the Design & Oppression Network aimed at fostering discussions and projects that reflect on oppression and promote resistance within the design community.
Relational design and the contradiction of oppression
- 1. Relational design and the contradiction of oppression Frederick van Amstel @fredvanamstel Industrial Design Academic Department UTFPR, Brasil fredvanamstel.com
- 2. What can we do with relational design against oppression and in favor of the liberation of the oppressed?
- 3. Static object Performatic object Graphic Design Industrial Design Interaction Design Experience Design
- 4. Relational Design means losing the object to gain the field.
- 6. information experience interaction relation seconds hours months years lasts lasts lasts lasts Relational Design implies a temporal expansion of the design field towards long-term projects.
- 7. a RELATION between things a thing… another thing…
- 8. Multilateral relations between humans and things.
- 9. Unilateral relations shaped by centralizing patterns
- 10. User-centered design reproduces centralizing patterns of anthropocentrism, capitalism, colonialism, sexism, whiteness, and more.
- 11. Centralizing patterns accumulate tensions between opposing forces in space, harboring contradictions of space. Centralization Homogenization Marginalization Differentiation
- 12. Contradictions of space originate from contradictions of body ≠
- 13. Oppressor Historically privileged social groups Oppressed Historically underprivileged social groups underestimation exclusion dehumanization reaction resistance conscientization The contradiction of oppression is ontological and aesthetic. aesthetic interactions
- 14. Aesthetic interactions promoted by the design of the oppressor.
- 15. Is it possible to promote liberating aesthetic interactions by design?
- 16. The Design & Oppression network was founded in 2020 to stimulate liberating aesthetic interactions in the design field.
- 17. The network organizes debates about authors who fought against oppression.
- 18. 1. First liberating interaction: to see myself as an oppressed.
- 19. Theater-Forum about the precariousness of designer work presented to USP students (2020). Artificial Intelligence that distributes client demands through the digital work platform Precarious designer working for a digital platform Precarious designer who sees himself as an entrepreneur
- 20. 2. Second liberating interaction: to see myself as an oppressor.
- 21. The Rainbow of Desire workshop to examine the oppressors that live inside us, the cops in our heads (2021).
- 22. 3. Third liberating interaction: subvert your privileges and share them with the fight for liberation.
- 23. Books with concrete stories of oppression written and designed by UTFPR students. S a S a Cab ça d Cab ça d Ba a a Ba a a RELA OS REAIS FALA O !!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! Lorem ipsum !"#$# A an a u n n u fala Opressão CRISTIANARA SILVA MAIKON BELEMER Arthur Correa Giovanna Possas Leticia Floriani Kaiara Batista Manual ANT MACHISTA I I 1 1 NO Bruna Moreira Miquelão Giulia Goldoni Gieler Isabela Braun da Silveira Nataly Milena Pivovar CONFESSIONÁRIO RELATOS DE CASA Organiza ão: Ana Carolina Miranda Anna Luiza Chaves Beatriz Hamilko Helena Godoy O LI DO O IM
- 24. ... there are more steps, but on this path of relational design, as the poet Antonio Machado would say, "there is no path, the path is made by walking."
- 25. Thanks! Frederick van Amstel @fredvanamstel Industrial Design Academic Department UTFPR, Brasil fredvanamstel.com