As co-design becomes increasingly adopted in new contexts with varying constraints and expectations, practitioners engaging in socially focused design often grapple with tensions. These tensions arise from balancing the need for short-term deliverables against the desire to create meaningful and sustainable social impacts. Understanding our personal orientations and beliefs regarding these tensions is crucial due to their potential real-world impacts and implications for future possibilities.
If you are committed to designing with, rather than for, this invitation is for you. Together, participants will embark on a collective journey to explore emergence, relationality, and long-term thinking. This session offers a range of experiences and provocations to help us imagine new ways of engaging in co-design. We will also examine what it requires of each participant to shift our perceptions of time and pacing within our design practices.
For DIA Accredited Designers, attendance at this event is worth 1 informal CPD Point.
Participants
Leander Kreltszheim
Leander Kreltszheim is a social designer with over 20 years’ practicing in the social justice and higher education spaces. She’s motivated by that heavy feeling in her chest when things just seem unfair, and she knows that the alternatives could be better for all. Relationships, care and fun are at the heart of her practice. She is currently having a ball completing her PhD at Monash University. Her research maintains that safer and more effective ways of ‘designing with’ are possible, but are founded upon a radical shifting of our worldviews around ‘time’ in the design process. She’s currently pondering: how we slow down to develop trust, ensure we are led by care, make decisions that value the input of our intuition, learn from First Nations approaches and knowledges, engage inclusive tools for imagining preferable futures, and consider how future generations might provide a voice for the decisions we make today.
Alli Edwards
Alli Edwards’ design practice strives to challenge the false dichotomy between work and play in order to create different ways of being and learning together. Her doctoral research at Monash University investigated the co-facilitation of materials in design workshops and explored what becomes possible when co-design tools are re-framed as co-design toys. In her current work with the Centre for Public Impact she continues embracing more playful and relational ways of being together as she holds space for learning partners to re-imagine government and navigate adaptive challenges.
As co-design becomes increasingly adopted in new contexts with varying constraints and expectations, practitioners engaging in socially focused design often grapple with tensions. These tensions arise from balancing the need for short-term deliverables against the desire to create meaningful and sustainable social impacts. Understanding our personal orientations and beliefs regarding these tensions is crucial due to their potential real-world impacts and implications for future possibilities.
If you are committed to designing with, rather than for, this invitation is for you. Together, participants will embark on a collective journey to explore emergence, relationality, and long-term thinking. This session offers a range of experiences and provocations to help us imagine new ways of engaging in co-design. We will also examine what it requires of each participant to shift our perceptions of time and pacing within our design practices.
For DIA Accredited Designers, attendance at this event is worth 1 informal CPD Point.
Participants
Leander Kreltszheim
Leander Kreltszheim is a social designer with over 20 years’ practicing in the social justice and higher education spaces. She’s motivated by that heavy feeling in her chest when things just seem unfair, and she knows that the alternatives could be better for all. Relationships, care and fun are at the heart of her practice. She is currently having a ball completing her PhD at Monash University. Her research maintains that safer and more effective ways of ‘designing with’ are possible, but are founded upon a radical shifting of our worldviews around ‘time’ in the design process. She’s currently pondering: how we slow down to develop trust, ensure we are led by care, make decisions that value the input of our intuition, learn from First Nations approaches and knowledges, engage inclusive tools for imagining preferable futures, and consider how future generations might provide a voice for the decisions we make today.
Alli Edwards
Alli Edwards’ design practice strives to challenge the false dichotomy between work and play in order to create different ways of being and learning together. Her doctoral research at Monash University investigated the co-facilitation of materials in design workshops and explored what becomes possible when co-design tools are re-framed as co-design toys. In her current work with the Centre for Public Impact she continues embracing more playful and relational ways of being together as she holds space for learning partners to re-imagine government and navigate adaptive challenges.
