Design and Economics Session Grid

Informal meet and greet. Opportunity to learn more about who is working on design and economics research. We will create a bulletin board to map shared interests and possible collaborations, and to stay in touch after the un-conference. All welcome.

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Part of the Design and Economics unconference running 8th-22nd April 2021 (see https://designandeconomics.com for more).

As somebody who wound up doing Economics and Econometrics at University, and then fell into various other practices over time (research, strategy, design, futures... etc), I have always reflected on what it was that Economic taught me that proved useful in these more adjacent fields.

This session will use a Miro Board as a map, wandering around and making connections between the knowledge and practices which people will generally pick up in economics degree, and how those relate to other 'visual fields'. From representations to simulations, assumptions to ideologies, modelling to wondering, it's a session that promises no answers  and lots of questions about the questions. 

But then this is Economics, and it was ever thus...

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85949487513

Meeting ID: 859 4948 7513

Individual link to session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/11/mapping-the-territory-the-visual-fields-of-economics-and-design-hosted-by-john-v-willshire/

Session Description: This discussion intends to explore how digital design practices embody specific economic ideas, possibly inadequate for ecological transition policies. A first track proposes to analyse how the concept of resources, presumably inherited by classic and neoclassic economics, is understood in digital design. The second track explores how the dismissal of externalities in economics can also apply to digital design tools and methods. Then, the online discussion will open up on the possible futures of digital design with other business models (doughnut economics, degrowth, ...)

Register for access: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUocuupqT0qGNShc7yKeLKNZc4lHNgv2a4i

Individual link to session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/11/resources-and-externalities-in-digital-design-hosted-by-gauthier-roussilhe/

If you work on digital services, you probably know the term 'technical debt'. But what about design, research, product, data and service debt – are they all things too?

Two designers working in government will attempt to link the debt we create on services and the looming spectre of failure demand that causes it and is nourished by it. How can we start using debt to our advantage as a service design tool?

We don't have the answers, but we're hoping to start a conversation.

Zoom call: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84057449120?pwd=RDg4emUwZFd3YS92Rllib3liZWlYdz09

 Meeting ID: 840 5744 9120

Passcode: 243797

Individual link to session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/11/making-debt-pay-in-public-sector-service-design-hosted-by-dan-howarth-vicky-teinaki/

Session Description: Informal meet and greet. Opportunity to learn more about who is working on design and economics research. We will create a bulletin board to map shared interests and possible collaborations, and to stay in touch after the un-conference. All welcome.

Register for access: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtdOGorDIrE91bQjmJiIWIlAhBhYgLAxlG

Session Description: Solidarity economy is an approach for developing fair community exchanges and human development within capitalist societies, working as a semi-detached alternative economic circuit based on the principles of self-management. This talk summarizes the experience of the speaker in designing a self-management platform for solidarity economy circuits in Brazil, guided by the Latin-American ideal of liberation from oppression.

About the speaker http://fredvanamstel.com

Join the call:
https://meet.jit.si/DesigningforLiberation
password: solidarity

Individual link to session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/11/designing-for-liberation-in-solidarity-economy-circuits-hosted-by-frederick-van-amstel/

Ainu Mosir is the world of the Ainu people, recognized as indigenous by the Japanese government. By the means of cultural revitalization through legislation and social movements, Ainu creatives have slowly but steadily flourished in recent years. This presentation discusses the perspective of Ainu peoples regarding the living planet, the preservation of their own culture and the influence that this worldview has on their interactive design. Based on the study of interactive projects created with Ainu peoples, the importance of their collaboration in the creative process and in the projects sustainability is exposed.

Join the Zoom call: https://zoom.us/j/96725704301?pwd=ZXlYcVBKaTEyWkZiUFlIUHpxRHFWQT09

Meeting ID: 967 2570 4301
Passcode: LwbV52

Individual link to session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/11/pluriversal-design-perspectives-from-ainu-mosir-hosted-by-xanat-vargas-meza/

This is a discussion about how we as designers might think about about capturing the value of what we create as designers, and what our participants create with us.

Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87398614305?pwd=MFQ5QjI1RDFjNHhVWm56NVg1bFJidz09

Meeting ID: 873 9861 4305
Passcode: 521933

Individual link to session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/11/how-designers-get-to-become-economic-agents-and-can-bring-that-agency-into-community-and-change-hosted-by-gill-wildman/

Join Brigitte Borja de Mozota and Steinar Valade-Amland, the authors of the book Design. A Business Case – Thinking, Leading and Managing by Design for a discussion around the business case for design excellence in organizations. Read more about the session here: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/09/design-a-business-case-thinking-leading-and-managing-by-design/

Register using this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsdO-gqT0sHNNXtRXKIu6HVBnI0JRIBm34

The circular economy (CE) is a buzzword, presented as a set of approaches to minimize the negative impacts of resource exploitation —in extraction and waste. However, little is said about the distribution and access of resources in a CE, or better said economical aspect of it. Stahel (2019) proposes a circular industrial economy based on services for abundance, where scarcity is eliminated by maintaining stocks of material resources in a high value (products) or in low value forms (molecules) within the economy (exchange system). The role of maintaining the value is given to firms that own the stocks and provide access to users through fee-based schemes (commercial services). The Ellen MacArthur foundation, as a forerunner of a certain CE, has supported their claims on the opportunities for profit maximization through value capture in services. Several authors have already criticized these claims as they could lead to inequalities in access.
CE has easily entered the discourse in design, as a technical and apolitical approach to materials, where it is rarely questioned.
In this session, I want to discuss with others about CE as more than profit maximization opportunities (or value capture), on its implications for equitable and just resource access and distribution, particularly the implications for designers.
Drop in and bring your position about CE.

Some generative questions:
1. What does a CE imply for equitable and just access to resources?
2. What are the social benefits of a CE? Who gets them?
3. What role would design, and designers play in different CEs?
4. What is to be negotiated and what should be put forward by designers?
Reference
Stahel, W. R. (2019). The circular economy: A user's guide. Routledge.

Register for the Zoom call: https://NTNU.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwodeuvqDkuGtIaAjkjFgQqE8bH3_zoa_rN

Individual link to session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/11/questioning-just-and-equitable-resource-access-in-circular-economies-hosted-by-isaac-ortega-alvarado/

Note: This session will take place in English and Japanese.

The Ainu are one of the indigenous groups that live in Japan. This session will present a brief summary of Ainu Design (particularly textile design), current applications and the links of indigenous design with society and the environment in the Japanese context.

Signing Up (how will people join your session? You can add this detail later by editing the event in your calendar or we can do it for you):
Join the zoom call with the following link: https://zoom.us/j/98978147597?pwd=TWZvQWpTd29IQ1ZFM1RITmdWcEgrQT09

Meeting ID: 989 7814 7597
Passcode: 7Vszb0

Individual link to session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/11/ainu-design-hosted-by-maki-sekine-xanat-vargas-meza/

What would it be like if the rituals and practices of our everyday bank card transactions, were more significant? What if we could design for understanding, and have interactions that lead to a deeper understanding of our places in personal, national and global economies?

In The Hermetic Bank Card, we’ll consider how bank cards - of all types - could figure more positively and prominently in the fabric of our economic lives. We’ll explore how the form, function, identity and meaning of the card has been shaped over time, and imagine their magical potential, in a re-imagined economy?

Register for the zoom call: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwude6hqzoiHtWO43ZZKH9_uEUgTKD9AREy

Individual link to session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/19/the-hermetic-bank-card-hosted-by-james-richards/

Session Description: We've been engaging as a design collective in several fronts with the non-speculative community led cooperative housing movement in Catalonia, designing services, learning platforms, facilitating multistakeholder collaboration and so on. Beyond design interventions, we're seeing how a nuanced understanding of the political economy of the contexts we intervene is key for an impactful practice.

Join the session: https://meet.jit.si/holon-deunconference

Individual link to session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/11/design-housing-transitions-and-the-social-and-solidarity-economy-hosted-by-adria-garcia-i-mateu/

Following the discussion at D&E on 16th Apr, the opportunity to discuss the four theses and how might we take action?

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUld-qqrT0sGtRDUTSqiwq5k3HDh_A7mNTa
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

With experience from working in over 40 countries, Tommy Hutchinson, founder of i-genius sets out a Manifesto on how social innovation needs to change if it is to remain relevant in a changing world.

Register for Zoom call: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcuuorTsuGdXlXXxlKITv9a9y5ohbRKA3

Link to individual session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/21/beyond-tinkering-the-future-of-social-innovation-hosted-by-tommy-hutchinson/

Design can be a way to reason with space by making abstract thought visible. Economic spaces offer different types of abstract spaces to be reasoned with through visualisation. I'll explore how visual forms of knowledge relate to different kinds of economics space and consider a few ways to explore those relationships further.

Signing Up: https://thoughtworks.zoom.us/my/stuartcurran

Link to individual session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/12/spatial-reasoning-and-economic-space-hosted-by-stuart-curran/

This session looks at the potential for economics to be incorporated in design education. Based on our experiences as designers, researchers, educators and students, we will discuss questions such as: How is economics currently reflected in design education, if at all? What subjects and skills related to economics are important for design students to learn? What would the economics-savvy design graduate of the future look like? What super powers would they have? Participants are welcome to contribute new questions and help us answer them.

We are based in the Department of Design at Aalto University, Finland. Elise Hodson is a post-doctoral researcher in design economies and formerly chair of a design school in Canada. Delphine Rumo recently defended her thesis in the Creative Sustainability master’s program and is interested in degrowth and healthy circular economies. André Helgestad is a student in the Creative Sustainability master’s program in design. He has a background in economics and is a founding member of Rethinking Economics in Finland.

Register for the Zoom call: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElcuGsqjwoE9PkNNWfJ8Zv12seGf22--4W

Link to individual session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/21/design-education-economics-hosted-by-elise-hodson/

This talk will interrogate the socio-material "taken-for-grantedness" of the framing of the New Economy, focusing on the dualistic embededdness of the 'constitutional trio' of sustainability: economics, society, ecology, and their variations. The session will develop the concept of 'frame backlash' based on historical examples, and use this concept to develop a response to this taken-for-grantedness.

The session is based on ongoing work being conducted by the team at Counter-Framing Design: https://counter-frames.org/

Counter-Framing Design is a meta-design research project whose goal is to interrogate dominant frames within the sustainability field in order to develop new structural approaches for co-sustainment and social change.

Register for the Zoom call: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrd-2qqDIvGtAf9IhWK_p0z3gYnDNUbpys

Link to individual session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/19/counter-framing-the-new-economy-hosted-by-sharon-prendeville/

Trust is a staple when it comes to value exchange. Whether conscious or not, it is trust in a system that allows us to participate. In healthcare, we want to preserve or return to our vitality and health, with our taxes we want government to provide appropriate services, from Amazon we expect instant delivery and immediate customer service, etc. Trust fails when such expectations are not met. This session will explore trust as a basis of relationship between systems and people and how design, in times of behavioural economics, attention economy and customer obsession, can play a role for meaningful exchange.

Register for the Zoom call: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pf-6uqjIsH9MeGqNY94XqtZzBdwWfJflC

Link to individual session description: https://designandeconomics.com/2021/04/19/the-failure-of-trust-in-designing-our-systems-hosted-by-julia-petretta/