They can define the problems they want and create the solutions to solve those problems. The most rich and powerful have the time and space to create the worlds that they want, using the tools that they want. New words like metaverse and Web3 have gained more and more currency lately and they are following similar generational patterns of storytelling. We need to acknowledge the edges of our collective and personal traumas, and walk together to mend, heal, and come back to ourselves.īut how do we do that healing work when it feels like everything is moving so fast, when moving faster, being more productive, doing more, and accumulating more seems to be the ethic of the day. Problems can be defined as phenomena that threaten the range of motion, imagination, and flexibility of a body. There is only then one problem in equity work from our perspective. And when we all have the time and space to think differently at scale, when our private bodies have the time and space to break stories that no longer serve us and write new ones, we allow the Public Body to emerge unbounded and free. We also know that when bodies are healed and are able to move differently, they think differently. We know that when we do our work better, we create spaces for our community members to do their work better. We are excited to join a legacy of techniques that are both traditional and emerging in order to explore how they can help us do our work better. We are releasing an updated version of the equityXdesign framework that you all will have the first look at before the public, and will spend the next chapter of our work helping others design innovations that heal and scale equity. To this end, the priority of healing is now centered in our equity design work.
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I am no doctor, but it does not take a medical professional to know that the ideas of brokenness come from broken bodies. Think for a second about how well you think, dream, and imagine when you are suffering from constant stress, pain, and anxiety. A body's ideas are only as healthy as the body itself. But where is it? How do we respond? What do we design?Īt 228 Accelerator, we believe a new world is possible and that our own healing is not just “nice to have,” but a requirement. Fighting against it creates more oppositional relationships. Fighting against it makes us exhausted and weary. Disintegration, Separation, and Dysregulation are core design features and are core pillars in this current version. The sovereignty of our bodies is under siege, as are the stories we can tell and discuss in school. We spend more on health care than most developing nations, yet have lower life expectancies. This current version of the world is tearing us apart, both privately and publicly. Much is at stake, especially since it feels like the world that we are left with has left us behind and left us out. For 228 Accelerator’s first Design to Heal: Virtual Conference, it is my humble intention that we emerge as a learning community that allows itself to learn together, work together, and design together.
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