Designing Towards an Antiracist University

DESINST 225: Personal Reflection

I came into this class, Designing Toward an AntiRacist Stanford, with some experience using and applying design thinking to problem areas or ecosystems. This class definitely pushed me out of my comfort zone — from our ice-breakers, role playing activities, and various…

Our Journey to creating a Stanford Class: An Anti-Racist Guide to Research

Feelings change, people change, and so can institutions.

On the first day of class for Designing Toward an AntiRacist Stanford, we did an exercise that imagined life in 2050. The “ideal” life in 2050 was a life of equality, peace, and flawlessness.

How I decided to take a course and why we should have more of this kind

We talk about racism and find design solutions

I took a class ‘Designing Towards an Anti-racist Stanford’ in Fall 2021. As I’m a postdoc, I did not…

New Approach to Design Thinking

The Designing Toward… class provided a very unique opportunity to use a design thinking approach to two very different facets- a prototype, which is standard in the d.school, but also a conversation. The ideation, hypothesizing, building, and learning phases were similar in…

Developing Community Agreements for Anti-Racist Universities

Overview

Reflections on my student experience

As one of less than 1% of Indigenous doctoral students at Stanford, I was familiar with many of the themes and topics we addressed throughout this course. From microaggressions to feeling as though you had to represent all experiences and views of the communities…