Can designers change systemic oppression?
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Oppression is systemic as it is reproduced across social groups, generating complex patterns of domination. By their token, designers reproduce oppression when they try to save the oppressed from oppression through system thinking or any innovative approach. To change systemic oppression, designers may better think and make things with the oppressed, by the oppressed, for the oppressed. This talk was part of the Royal College of Art Symposium on Design and Systemic Change, organized by Product Design students.
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Can designers change systemic oppression?
- 1. Can designers change systemic oppression? Frederick van Amstel @fredvanamstel Laboratory of Design against Oppression (LADO), UTFPR www.fredvanamstel.com
- 2. What is oppression? Why is it systemic? What can designers do?
- 3. HUMAN BEING BEING MORE BEING MORE BEING MORE BEING MORE Frantz Fanon Álvaro Vieira Pinto Paulo Freire Augusto Boal The ontological vocation of human beings is to become more, to develop further.
- 4. LESS-THAN HUMAN BEING BEING LESS BEING LESS BEING LESS BEING LESS Oppression is a social relation that curtails this ontological vocation.
- 5. Oppressed humans are classified into social groups • Human • Men • Colonizers • White • Citizens • Able • Designers • Less-than-human • Women • Indigenous • Black • Immigrants • Disabled • Users
- 6. OPPRESSED (less-than-human) BEING LESS OPPRESSOR (human) BEING MORE As a group, the oppressed are made to believe that they lack something that the oppressor have to exchange.
- 7. OPPRESSED (less-than-human) BEING LESS OPPRESSOR (human) BEING MORE The exchange is unequal. Hence, the oppressor becomes more human than the oppressed and defines the standard for being human.
- 8. Humanizing standards are defined, among other ways, through how humans (and less-than-humans) design their world (images generated by craiyon.com).
- 9. Why is oppression systemic?
- 10. BEING LESS BEING LESS BEING MORE The oppressed often act similarly to the oppressor in another social relation to regain the stolen humanity. Oppression is systemic as it is reproduced across social groups, generating complex patterns of domination. OPPRESSED BEING MORE OPPRESSED IN ONE RELATION, OPPRESSOR IN ANOTHER.
- 11. Example: Anger Transference (Richard Sargent, 1954).
- 12. The oppressed live at the intersection of several oppressive relations. BEING LESS BEING LESS BEING LESS BEING LESS BEING MORE BEING MORE BEING MORE BEING MORE OPPRESSED Kimberlé Crenshaw Patricia Hill Collins bell hooks Angela Davis
- 14. OPPRESSED (less-than-human) BEING LESS OPPRESSOR (human) BEING MORE Oppression can only be countered if the oppressed reject the oppressor’s standard and become more for their own sake.
- 15. What can designers do for the oppressed?
- 16. Take a look at these classifications once again • Human • Men • Colonizers • White • Citizens • Able • Designers • Less-than-human • Women • Indigenous • Black • Immigrants • Disabled • Users
- 17. Designers are already systemically oppressing users if they design for them.
- 19. There is not much you can do against oppression on the oppressor’s side. You need to side with the oppressed to fight oppression.
- 20. Design workers are oppressed, not because they are designers but because they are workers. Women designers are oppressed, not because they are designers, but because they are women and workers. …
- 21. Designers should join the oppressed as an oppressed, not as an almighty deusigner that can save them.
- 22. Example: Uniperifa collective joined LADO students to plan community actions in Condomínio Iguaçu III (Oct 2022).
- 23. We identified several sustainability issues that required an increased sense of community, which was damaged by systemic oppression. We decided to focus on the community center then.
- 24. Design students joined Uniperifa collective to renovate Iguaçú’s community center, making things that are not usually associated with design work (Nov 2022).
- 25. To change systemic oppression, designers can design and make things with the oppressed, by the oppressed, for the oppressed.
- 26. Obrigado! Thank you! Frederick van Amstel @fredvanamstel Laboratory of Design against Oppression (LADO), UTFPR www.fredvanamstel.com