Bringing Systemic Design in the Educational Practice: The Case of Gender Equality in an Academic Context

Jacoby, Alexis; Ael, Kristel Van

doi:10.1017/pds.2021.58

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“…Few approaches are more effective in transforming mental models and behaviours than education [63], which allows the questioning and the construction of knowledge. No instrument is more effective in joining educational practice and critical thinking than social design [64]. This design area, which is dedicated to embracing human challenges, has gained attention in recent years because of its capacity to connect multiple actors and its tools to engage people in transformation.…”

Section: Social Design: the Genesis Of Social Change By Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Development Goals and Gender Equality: A Social Design Approach on Gender-Based Violence

Lima,

Guedes

2024

Sustainability

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Gender equality is a central human aspect of the Sustainable Development Goals. Among its multiple and complex issues, this research highlights gender-based violence as a domain that affects women’s empowerment and the guarantees of an effective equality on numerous levels. To address such a complex structure, which perpetuates inequalities between men and women, generating multiple effects and jeopardising social changes, social design can provide contributions on cultural and social levels. To achieve social systemic changes, one needs to activate profound cultural transformations. Thus, how can we change culture without rejecting the need to empower women and promote equality? The Montréal Design Declaration (2017) recognised social design’s potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), to contribute to global challenges, and to accept a calling for stakeholders’ integration and agency promotion. This review explores how social design can provide contributions with regard to SDG5 and gender-based violence, presenting relevant domains that actively contribute to cultural transformation to address interventions in this systemic phenomenon.

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Section: Social Design: the Genesis Of Social Change By Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Development Goals and Gender Equality: A Social Design Approach on Gender-Based Violence

Lima,

Guedes

2024

Sustainability

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“…This could be because they approach analysis in the same way as traditional problems. An alternative could be a system mapping approach (Jacoby & Van Ael, 2021), where three phases are defined: framing the system, listening to the system, and understanding the system. This is a better fit for complexity analysis, but clearly not an established model in the design agency world.…”

Section: Complexity and Design Processmentioning

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The changing role of designers in transition processes

Moons,

Noëth,

Gruyters

et al. 2023

Connectivity and Creativity in Times of Conflict

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In the last twenty years, design research and design practice have mutually influenced each other in rethinking the role of design in an increasingly complex world. New areas, for example, service design, systemic design, and transition design have emerged out of this research-practice interaction. With the rise of these new fields, designers have developed new skills, new responsibilities, a different sense of agency, and, sometimes, a new mindset. This is especially the case for transition design, a field that deals with design processes over longer periods of time and that requires close collaboration with multiple other disciplines, exposing the need to reflect on the role and agency of the designer. In this research, ten design practitioners in the Flemish design agency landscape were interviewed to gain a deeper insight into the skills and mindset designers need today and in the future. During these interviews, the time was taken to thoroughly discuss agency in the design process, the changing relationship between client and service provider, and the concept and consequences of transdisciplinarity. This resulted in an overview of the changing characteristics of design and designers regarding their soft and design skills, their role & ethics when dealing with complexity, the business model of design agencies and changes in the design process and team. With the insights from this research, we invite design education researchers to reflect on design education addressing our complex world. Besides training designers how to design, they could teach them about the world in which design exists and is implemented. Additionally, the results could motivate service providers to rethink the composition of their teams, their relationship with the clients, and their business strategy, so they will be fully prepared to navigate through the rapid transitions of our current and future world.

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Bringing Systemic Design in the Educational Practice: The Case of Gender Equality in an Academic Context

Cited by 2 publications

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Sustainable Development Goals and Gender Equality: A Social Design Approach on Gender-Based Violence

Sustainable Development Goals and Gender Equality: A Social Design Approach on Gender-Based Violence

The changing role of designers in transition processes

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