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Design Justice in Practice
with Anushka Jajodia
What can an equity-centered co-design process look like? How can it be implemented as planned?
Anushka, a Baltimore-based participatory design researcher, designer, and facilitator will share insights and learnings from her recent co-design project.
This session will delve into the intersection of creativity and health. Explore Anushka’s journey through health-related and/or other design projects, uncovering the creative processes that brought them to life. We'll also discuss the core values that guide her work. The session will include a small facilitated, 10-minute activity designed to ignite your own creative spark for well-being and creativity.
About Anushka:
Anushka is a designer, facilitator, gatherer, artist, drummer, and oracle card reader. She practices participatory design research and storytelling through visual design and illustration to support the well-being of older adults and their families, and foster community ownership. She collaborates with a team of researchers, clinicians, and public health experts. Building relationships takes time and intention, especially when the system prioritizes inequities, speed and burnout. Through grounding questions and a strengths-based approach, she fosters collaborative spaces – from design workshops to community music jams – nurturing connections with diverse communities on a deep level. She’s determined to learn, participate in, and support collective efforts toward caste abolition that originate from South Asia. She has worked with non-profits focusing on youth mentorship, gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability in India in the past.
She's experimenting and co-designing the Design Justice Network Playground, a virtual haven within the Design Justice Network (DJN) to explore design philosophies and frameworks with a 15-member global cohort through monthly sessions. We engage in collective prototyping, fostering dialogue with fellow designers and feedback to cultivate transformative ideas and shared learning experiences.