Designing Gender

Sarah Elsie Baker is Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow at Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests are focused on design and social inequality, specifically in relation to user experience and design futures. She teaches design research and methods, as well as courses exploring gender and design.

• AcknowledgementsPreface1. Gender, Feminism and ThingsIntroduction: The Complexities of Sex and GenderDefining GenderFeminism and Systems of OppressionGendered Things/Gendered ProcessesDesigning Intersectional Gender JusticeCase Study: Gender Swapping, Karin Ehrnberger, StockholmInterview: Lindsey Brinkworth, Senior Researcher, Magic+Might, ChicagoActivity 1: Gender JournalActivity 2: Norm Discussion Cards2. Women, Craft, and TechnologyIntroduction: Questioning Design (His)storiesCraft as Feminist ResistanceFeminist Redesigns and DIY AestheticsCyberfeminism and Gender HackingCase Study: Buen Vivir-Centric Design, Diana Albarrán González, Mexico/AotearoaInterview: Cornelia Sollfrank, Artist and Researcher, BerlinActivity 1: Pick a Theme/Make a ZineActivity 2: Hack It Game3. Women and Design as ProfessionIntroduction: Gender in the Design IndustriesWomen and the Professionalisation of DesignDesign Knowledge and the Making of the ProfessionalMasculinities at Work in Design CulturesAddressing Inequality in the WorkplaceChallenging Gender Norms in Professional Design PracticeCase Study: Designers Speak (Up) Catherine Griffith, Aotearoa New Zealand Interview: In-ah Shin, Graphic Designer, Feminist Designer Social Club. SeoulActivity 1: Situational Knowledge MapActivity 2: Listening Positionality Exercise4. Making Gender Inequality VisibleIntroduction: Gender Justice as a Global IssueData, Power and InvisibilityDesign and the Gender Data Gap Feminist Counter-data and Queering AI Visualising Inequality Case Study: Visualizing Gender-based Violence, Nepal Interview: Brindaalakshmi K, Thematic Lead, Point of View, Chennai Activity 1: Queering Algorithms Activity 2: Gendered Life Data Drawing 5. Feminist Design Futures Introduction: Design and the Future Speculative Futures and Design Fictions Speculative Design and Inequality Feminist Visions of the Future Futuring Tools and Approaches to Time Speculative Design and Gender Case Study: Freak Science, Mary Maggic, Vienna Interview: Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Artist and Researcher, Brazil/Germany Activity 1: Participatory Futures Tool Activity 2: Speculating with the Past 6. Non-Binary Design and Sustainable Practice Introduction: Feminism and Ecological Crisis Towards Non-Binary Design More-Than-Human Entanglement, Post-nature and Queer Ecology Indigenous Worldviews, Design and Becoming-With Unmaking Design Practice Case Study: Lehuauakea, New Mexico, US and Papa’ikou, Hawaii Interview: Sixto-Juan Zavala, Designer and Illustrator, Texas/London Activity 1: Mapping Entanglements Activity 2: Feral Experiments

Integrates theory and case studies backed by useful exercises that that will improve the (design) world in tangible ways for all