Designing with Bias and Privilege?

TY - GEN

T1 - Designing with Bias and Privilege?

AU - Søndergaard, Marie Louise Juul

AU - Hansen, Lone Koefoed

PY - 2017/6

Y1 - 2017/6

N2 - Focusing on the relation between design and power requires us to understand the designer’s role and position. Based on an understanding of design as ideological and political, we focus on the designer’s position from an intersectional feminist perspective. We present two design objects that aim to critically intervene into agency and power structures, and we analyse how the designer’s position impacts this intervention. With this case, we demonstrate how a simple argument – that what you design is always influenced by your (lack of) privilege – becomes complex when understood in the concrete design practice. The paper contributes with a critical reflection on how a designer is always part of a construction of power and privilege.

AB - Focusing on the relation between design and power requires us to understand the designer’s role and position. Based on an understanding of design as ideological and political, we focus on the designer’s position from an intersectional feminist perspective. We present two design objects that aim to critically intervene into agency and power structures, and we analyse how the designer’s position impacts this intervention. With this case, we demonstrate how a simple argument – that what you design is always influenced by your (lack of) privilege – becomes complex when understood in the concrete design practice. The paper contributes with a critical reflection on how a designer is always part of a construction of power and privilege.

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 1

EP - 8

BT - Nordes 2017

PB - Nordes

T2 - Nordes 2017

Y2 - 15 June 2017 through 17 June 2017

ER -