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Alternative Design Scholarship (Summary ///// Synthesizing Design…

- - - - Early accessibility designers identified the physical abilities/needs of people bound to wheelchairs and walkers, but they failed to account for their psychological needs. Buildings with backdoor entry ramps, for example, may provide access for those in wheelchairs, but they additionally marginalize wheelchair users by separating them from “normal”
        people who enter through the front.
- - - - Designing “with nature” is one strategy for coping with uncertainties (designing human systems to work in conjunction with natural systems)
    - - What does sustainability mean?
        
        In the rush to the next sustainable project or "green washing" some difficult questions simply go unasked
- - - - Feminist design scholarship emphasizes the importance of this challenge
        
        They show how gendered power relations become embedded in mate-rial objects, and then how social-material relations reinforce and legitimate sexist practice
        
        Microwave oven Designed for women? To cook or to heat up? "Technology is gendered. We collectively gender it, of course; but, in turn, it individually genders us"
    - - Addressing margin-alization through design requires changes not only to immediate design practices, but also to the governing mentalities that underlie those practices
- - - - Papanek: "Quality, new concepts, and an understanding of the limits of mass production could mean designing for the majority of the world’s people".