Hello Distributed Design community,
The aim of the Distributed Design Impact Charter Pledge is to invite you (and your organisations!) to demonstrate your willingness to act towards reducing the footprint of our project whereby increasing our positive impact on our future-making practices.
By joining this pledge, you engage in our collective action to raise awareness of social and environmental sustainability. To collectively serve as a catalyst in promoting best practices in fair, inclusive and sustainable project management, help us to fulfil our Distributed Design Impact Charter Goals by joining the Pledge through the application form here.
Our best wishes,
Distributed Design Platform Team at Fab Lab Barcelona
How to Design to Distribute?
As a community, we are continuously open to reflecting on our work ethos. Our design approaches and choices are informed by our immediate (social & environmental) context, behaviours and principle of actions. The principle of action in organising, engagement, and equity work refers to the importance of making progress and accomplishing something of value to the community.
Our work emphasises designs that attempt to contribute with economies of scale, caring about the relationship between the scale of use of “things” and a properly chosen combination of all productive factors. Thus, having a holistic view of the design practice.
We engage with thought-provoking questions and bring them to our collective attention as a platform. Together we have the potential to put forward responses to challenging questions. And, more importantly, these interactions help to educate ourselves to generate new behaviours. We are embracing diversity and contextualising our struggles, advocating for mutual understanding and empathy in nuanced circumstances.
Some of the current pressing questions from the Distributed Design Platform community in general :
- If Distributed Design Platform has started benefiting mostly European communities, how to expand up and connect beyond the EU?
- How to keep promoting diversity, and intersectionality?
- How to increase cultural accessibility, which includes embracing local knowledge and different forms of communications and languages?
- How to support Creatives affected by injustice?
- How to support rebalancing power-over, i.e. in conflict zones?
- How to engage with policy making from the bottom-up, considering local contexts for the design briefing.
- How to engage with local, national, governmental action for making a positive impact on inclusive policy making?
- How to sustain distributed design projects with environmental, social and financial sustainability?
- How to create a design that embraces people’s emotions?
- How to promote design practices which are inclusive and needs-driven?
As a group that is committed to experiment (“old” and new) ways to address relevant questions related to “design to distribute”, following Kate Raworth’s ideas, and contributing to an economy that should be designed to thrive, not to grow.
