Mapping a Collective Futurity

Florence Okoye | @FINOkoye

@FINOkoye

@FINOkoye

Clarity is...

Clarity is... scarce

Florence Okoye

Name:

UX Designer

Class:

Chaotic Good(???)

Alignment: 

@FINOkoye

@FINOkoye

How we work is crucial to understand why we're making what we make

How we work is crucial to understand why we're making what we make

How we work is crucial to understand why we're making what we make

How we work is crucial to understand why we're making what we make

@FINOkoye

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@FINOkoye

@FINOkoye

@FINOkoye

@FINOkoye

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Designing for advocacy, not inclusion

Designing for advocacy, not inclusion

Designing for advocacy, not inclusion

@FINOkoye

@FINOkoye

@FINOkoye

  1. Clarify who is present

  2. Clarify your values (real or speculative!)

  3. Map out what those values mean respective to who is present

@FINOkoye

"How can we design in a system that requires people to want what they don't want?"

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"How can you design in a context where projects are done on basis of budget rather than human needs?"

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"How can you design with communities who don't trust you*?"

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*and have good reason not to

@FINOkoye

Co-opting the radical isn't just 'uncool'

it makes things materially worse

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So here goes...

@FINOkoye

@FINOkoye

It's almost impossible to advocate for others, if you can't advocate for yourself.

It's almost impossible to advocate for others, if you can't advocate for yourself.

Thank you!

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