Voice from comminity design experts

I am now working with community, getting inspirations from the community. I think we all did. Now in the post-pendemic era, this experience is so real to me. For example, when I am doing interventions for my project, I can feel that people have strong will to become a responsible part of the society by respecting me, by expressing their ideas and feelings with pacient, by smiling.

Therefore, we are in new realm of creativity. We are not just “producers” and “consumers”, “students and tutors”. Moreover, It emphasis on empathy, on proactiveness, and on balance.

Who Needs To Change?

“Innovation and progression, both ideas are fundamentally built on the premises of linear movement of perpetual growth. In reality, the ways that technology and culture evolve are often recursive and circular”

Taeyoon Choi, School of Poetic Computation

Reconcile Contradictions

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to who is actually in the arena, whose face is married by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if they fail, at least fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Becoming—with

“Chthulucene is an era made up of ongoing multispecies stories and practices of becoming—with in times that remain at stake, in precious times, in which the world is not finished and sky has not fallen yet.”

Nonna Haraway

Equity-based community design

“Because good intentions are not enough. We have to hold ourselves accountable to the impact that we are having in our lives and other lives in our communities. But understand that human centered approaches are not enough because un fortunately, a lot of human centered efforts look at community members as “users”, “beneficiaries” and “research subject”, opposed to being co-designers and co-workers.”

Antionette Carroll