Carl DiSalvo discusses how design can impact real communities | Humanistic Design Speaker Series 

This session was recorded on April 12, 2023.
For the last of the spring 2023 semester's Humanistic Design Speaker Series, Carl DiSalvo shares his new book, Design as Democratic Inquiry. This book discusses a series of projects grounded in collaborations with communities and institutions. In these collaborations, Carl explores the potentials and limitations of design to participate in democracy through what he calls design experiments in civics. In particular, Carl explores how, as engaged designers, we might contribute to the work of communities and institutions who explore alternative civic imaginaries, which keep our democracies vibrant. This requires rethinking the stories we tell about design, how we practice design, and how we theorize design. Rather than repeating the heroic tales of innovation, Carl argues for embracing design as fragile, contingent, partial, and compromised: designing becomes a way to care for our collective futures together.
The Humanistic Design Speaker Series brings up-and-coming scholars from outside to our campus to discuss their efforts in humanistic design. They highlight how broad, yet deep domain expertise can be brought together through design to enhance the human condition.
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