Community Design For Leaders: Moving Beyond Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) to Power, Belonging and Interdependence (PBI)

Community Design is a community-generated design framework from the 1960s and ’70s that has made a resurgence in the last several years. Unlike Human-Centered Design, Community Design provides a path to shift not only who is doing the work but what the work is and how it is done.

Leaders will leave with:

Knowledge: A deep understanding of the role of design in private and public sector mission-driven work and what it means for your leadership practice
Resources: Models, templates, tools and tactics to shift to a framework of power, belonging and inclusion
Community: New relationships and a virtual community of support, scholarship and practice

This intensive is facilitated by Sloan Leo (they/them), the Founder & CEO of FLOX Studio Inc. and faculty in the MFA Design for Social Innovation (DSI) program. For more information on FLOX Studio and Sloan Leo, check them out here. For more information about MFA DSI check them out here.

All profits from this course will be used to support MFA DSI’s new Equity in Design Scholarship Fund. We created the scholarship to address intersectional inequalities in design and promote equitable opportunities starting with our own student community. This will be our first time offering the scholarship, which will grant $10,000 to an incoming student each year. We seek to grow and iterate on this initiative to create pathways in design to support and sustain diverse, creative leaders.

For questions, please contact dsiinfo@sva.edu.

Information Session

Community Design for Leaders Information Session

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