{"product_id":"feminist-designer-isbn-9780262553018","title":"Feminist Designer","description":"\u003cb\u003eA bold and timely collection that brings feminist theory and critical thinking to life through vital, approachable design methods and practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeminist Designer \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together a constellation of voices and perspectives to examine the intersection of design and feminist theory. For decades, the feminist refrain within design has hinged on the representation and inclusion of women in the field. This collection, edited by Alison Place, however, is a call to move beyond this narrow application. Feminist design is not just about \u003ci\u003ewho\u003c\/i\u003e does design—it is about \u003ci\u003ehow \u003c\/i\u003ewe do design and \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c\/i\u003e. Feminist frameworks for design activism are now more relevant than ever, as they emphasize collaborative processes that aim to disrupt and dismantle power hierarchies while centering feminist ways of knowing and doing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first book in nearly three decades to address such practices in design, \u003ci\u003eFeminist Designer\u003c\/i\u003e contains essays, case studies, and dialogues by 43 contributors from 16 different countries. It engages a wide variety of design disciplines, from graphic design to disability design to algorithmic design, and explores key feminist themes, such as power, knowledge, care, plurality, liberation, and community. Through diverse, sometimes conflicting, intersectional perspectives, this book contributes new design methods informed by a multiplicity of feminisms that confront design’s patriarchal origins while ushering in new pathways for making critical and meaningful change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJennifer Armbrust, Dina Benbrahim, Madeline Avram Blount, Elizabeth Byrd, Benedetta Crippa, Alexandra Crosby, Laura Devendorf, Rachael Dietkus, Ashley K. Eberhart, Griselda Flesler, Aimi Hamraie, Gaby Hernández, Alexis Hope, Jeff Kasper, Ellen Kellogg, Aasawari Kulkarni, Eden Laurin, Una Lee, Andrew Mallinson, Claudia Marina, Victor G. Martinez, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Margaret Middleton, Maryam Mustafa, Becky Nasadowski, Maya Ober, Nina Paim, Elizabeth Pérez, Heather Snyder Quinn, Cami Rincón, Jenn Roberts, Velvet A. Johnson Ross, In-ah Shin, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Ayako Takase, Attia Taylor, Rebecca Tegtmeyer, Aggie Toppins, Ilaria Vanni, Joana Varon, Manon Vergerio, Mandy Harris Williams, Sarah WilliamsPreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1: POWER\u003cbr\u003eOn power by Alison Place\u003cbr\u003eOn calling yourself a designer Essay by Claudia Marina\u003cbr\u003eOn smuggling feminism into design institutions Dialogue with Griselda Flesler\u003cbr\u003eOn the contradictions of feminist branding Essay by Aggie Toppins\u003cbr\u003eOn fighting the typatriarchy Dialogue with Aasawari Kulkarni\u003cbr\u003e50 questions for every designer Essay by Jennifer Armbrust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 2: KNOWLEDGE\u003cbr\u003eOn knowledge by Alison Place\u003cbr\u003eOn feminist design that is beyond W.E.I.R.D. Essay by Maryam Mustafa\u003cbr\u003eOn mother-centered design Case study by Elizabeth Pérez\u003cbr\u003eOn critical frameworks for disability design Dialogue with Aimi Hamraie\u003cbr\u003eOn female entrepreneurship and visual storytelling Case study and visual essay by Gaby Hernández\u003cbr\u003eOn feminist technology for housing justice Case study by Ashley K. Eberhart, Elizabeth Byrd, Madeline Avram Blount, Manon Vergerio, Velvet A. Johnson Ross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3: CARE\u003cbr\u003eOn care by Alison Place\u003cbr\u003eOn intergenerational maternal healing Dialogue with Eden Laurin and Ellen Kellogg\u003cbr\u003eOn designing with authenticity over perfection Case study by Rebecca Tegtmeyer\u003cbr\u003eOn embodying vulnerability through design Case study by Jeff Kasper\u003cbr\u003eOn trauma informed design Dialogue with Rachael Dietkus\u003cbr\u003eOn the self-optimization of care Case study by Laura Devendorf\u003cbr\u003eOn health and healing in marginalized communities Case study by Attia Taylor\u003cbr\u003eOn counter-mapping and co-designing with more-than-humans Case study Alexandra Crosby and Ilaria Vanni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 4: PLURALITY\u003cbr\u003eOn plurality by Alison Place\u003cbr\u003eOn design pedagogy and empty pluralism Essay by Becky Nasadowski\u003cbr\u003eOn challenging power through visual form Dialogue with Benedetta Crippa\u003cbr\u003eOn centering trans voices in design Case study by Cami Rincón and Andrew Mallinson\u003cbr\u003eOn feminine exhibition design Essay by Margaret Middleton\u003cbr\u003eOn matriarchal design education Dialogue with Ayako Takase and Heather Snyder Quinn\u003cbr\u003eOn design histories woven in patriarchy Essay by Dina Benbrahim \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 5: LIBERATION\u003cbr\u003eOn liberation by Alison Place\u003cbr\u003eOn creating spaces for Black women to heal, dream and innovate Dialogue with Jenn Roberts\u003cbr\u003eOn feminist hackathons Case study by Alexis Hope\u003cbr\u003eOn envisioning alternative transfeminist futures Case study by Joana Varon\u003cbr\u003eOn staying with the trouble of future technologies Essay by Marie Louis Juul Søndergaard\u003cbr\u003eOn building consentful technology Case study by Una Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 6: COMMUNITY\u003cbr\u003eOn community by Alison Place\u003cbr\u003eOn community as a process of working towards Dialogue with Sarah Williams and Mandy Harris Williams\u003cbr\u003eOn making code accessible and inclusive Case study by Lauren Lee McCarthy\u003cbr\u003eOn building a flexible and borderless feminist community Case study by In-ah Shin\u003cbr\u003eOn being a male feminist designer: a path of understanding Essay by Victor G. Martinez\u003cbr\u003eOn the futures(s) of feminist design Dialogue with Maya Ober and Nina Paim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecommended Readings\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cb\u003eIncluded in Fast Company's \"5 essential design books to read this fall\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"What is the relationship between feminist theory and design practice? This is the question that frames the essays, conversations, and case studies that designer and educator Alison Place has put together here. Moving beyond narrow questions of representation and inclusion, \u003ci\u003eFeminist Designer\u003c\/i\u003e instead asks \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e we design and \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c\/i\u003e. In a work of theory that is also accessible, Place and her contributors make the case that feminist theory—and feminism more generally—provides an opportunity to interrogate the role of power, knowledge, care, community, and more in the designed systems and artifacts that surround us.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFast Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The book looks at all these mediations through a feminist lens, asking that designers, and anyone engaged with design (which is all of us) be alert to the implicit bias in our designed world, and its entanglement in power structures and oppressive systems. The book, which includes work from 43 contributors across 16 countries, answers how to make design socially beneficial, looking at graphic, interior, exhibition, AI, product, disability, and design education, demanding an examination of the ways designed objects and systems reinforce or undermine oppression. The book is divided into six thematic chapters: power, knowledge, care, plurality, liberation, and community.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“This book will be an invaluable resource for design educators and practitioners, challenging what we thought we knew while opening new possibilities for being and designing”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Metropolis \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A joyful explosion of feminist design perspectives. Women and nonbinary designers—Black, Indigenous, white, queer, disabled, mothers, and aunties—are reclaiming ‘innovation’ from patriarchy and demanding space for pleasure, care, community, and collective liberation. A must-read for designers of all genders.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Catherine D'Ignazio, Associate Professor and Director of the Data + Feminism Lab, MIT; coauthor of \u003ci\u003eData Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“In this groundbreaking book, Place challenges us to reimagine design and its role in feminism, social justice, capitalism, and our own lives. This book is a pivotal point in the way we will study, conceive, and practice design.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Robin Landa, Distinguished Professor, Michael Graves College, Kean University\u003c\/b\u003eAlison Place is a designer, educator, and researcher who practices feminism through design. 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