Just presented on @pivot2021conf panel replete with meaningful discussions on epistemologies of the Global South.
One should always remember that we all have so many stories to share!
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Prof. Immony Men, Co-chair of the Pivot 2021 Conference. He is an artist, educator, community-based researcher, and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University.
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Dr. Renata Marques Leitão, Chair of the Pivot 2021 Conference. She is a Brazilian/Canadian social justice-focused design researcher and Co-Chair of the Pluriversal Design SIG of the Design Research Society (DRS).
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Member of the Pivot 2021 Conference organizing committee, Pawel Pokutycki. Interaction designer, researcher and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague and Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Member of the Pivot 2021 Conference organizing committee, Sucharita Beniwal. She is a designer-educator from the global south. She locates her teaching and research practice within the larger discourse of democratization of design.
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Member of the Pivot 2021 Conference organizing committee, Nicholas B. Torretta. Nicholas is a Brazilian artist with a focus on decolonial efforts in relational and improvisational practices in music, arts and design.
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Member of the Pivot 2021 Conference organizing committee, Michele Washington. She is a facilitator and maker, who works on various cultural and community-based projects.
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By Tools, we refer to not only artifacts but also to services, symbols, rules, institutions, policies, pedagogies, systems, environments, and so on. Tools constitute aspects of social life that we create to (re)shape the tangible reality.
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We will showcase ideas and initiatives from urban racialized minorities to Indigenous peoples from several countries and designers and scholars who are working towards alternative futures and societal transformation.
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