Positioning your identity through mapping and playing
We propose a decolonising workshop to deeply understand and reflect on our identity by creating a “Social Identity Map” and an explicit positionality towards different global and community concerns, like climate change, gender and decolonisation.
This workshop is divided into two parts. The first part will be using a reflective tool called Social Identity Map developed by Danielle Jacobson and Nida Mustafa which guides the participants to recognize their ‘social location’ through different tiers of identity. This will help us understand and reflect on your positionality and privilege.
The second part will be on reflecting how this social identity and way of being shapes how you think and the way you connect with others and the world. We will use a typical Mexican board game called Loteria, the job of this game is to openly express your ideas based on your social identity within global issues – ex. archetypes and elements in the Loteria that will give you an opportunity to reflect on diverse topics.
This workshop will make us think about the theme of this year MDW “Design the world you want.” This project might explore sensitive topics such as race, class and gender, therefore recording will not be permitted.
Participants
Carlos Vazquez is a Latin American UX designer working in the intersection between technology and social issues, like decolonization and gender studies. His practice is centred around the written word while producing work that encompasses workshops, digital & print creations. In 2019 Carlos received a masters degree from Monash University in Advanced Design Studies and has been collaborating with different higher education universities in Mexico.
Desiree Ibinarriaga, Mexican-Indigenous woman, with Chamula (Mayan), Nahuatl (Aztec) and Euskaldunak (Basque) heritage. She is a collaborative and social design maker and thinker, lecturer at Monash Art, Design and Architecture, Coordinator for Indigenous Higher Degrees by Research being part of Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab. Desiree is a passionate designer, researcher, educator and traveller. She has over 14 years of experience in the design field, across diverse disciplines, such as furniture, interior, social, decolonising and Indigenous design. Desiree’s work focuses on Indigenous peoples’ building of capacity and better ways of partnership and communication between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people through design, by recognising the relationality between people and environment while acknowledging the world as a unit. Her teaching practice encourages students to develop understanding of Indigenous methodologies and their own cultural identity through a collaborative design practice.
This event is part of Melbourne Design Week 2022, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV.
Photos from the event
Event Details
- Date:
- 23 March 2022 at 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Venue:
- Victorian Pride Centre
- Register here:
- https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/positioning-your-identity-through-mapping-and-playing-tickets-229145128247
- Categories:
- Design
Description
We propose a decolonising workshop to deeply understand and reflect on our identity by creating a “Social Identity Map” and an explicit positionality towards different global and community concerns, like climate change, gender and decolonisation.
This workshop is divided into two parts. The first part will be using a reflective tool called Social Identity Map developed by Danielle Jacobson and Nida Mustafa which guides the participants to recognize their ‘social location’ through different tiers of identity. This will help us understand and reflect on your positionality and privilege.
The second part will be on reflecting how this social identity and way of being shapes how you think and the way you connect with others and the world. We will use a typical Mexican board game called Loteria, the job of this game is to openly express your ideas based on your social identity within global issues – ex. archetypes and elements in the Loteria that will give you an opportunity to reflect on diverse topics.
This workshop will make us think about the theme of this year MDW “Design the world you want.” This project might explore sensitive topics such as race, class and gender, therefore recording will not be permitted.
Participants
Carlos Vazquez is a Latin American UX designer working in the intersection between technology and social issues, like decolonization and gender studies. His practice is centred around the written word while producing work that encompasses workshops, digital & print creations. In 2019 Carlos received a masters degree from Monash University in Advanced Design Studies and has been collaborating with different higher education universities in Mexico.
Desiree Ibinarriaga, Mexican-Indigenous woman, with Chamula (Mayan), Nahuatl (Aztec) and Euskaldunak (Basque) heritage. She is a collaborative and social design maker and thinker, lecturer at Monash Art, Design and Architecture, Coordinator for Indigenous Higher Degrees by Research being part of Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab. Desiree is a passionate designer, researcher, educator and traveller. She has over 14 years of experience in the design field, across diverse disciplines, such as furniture, interior, social, decolonising and Indigenous design. Desiree’s work focuses on Indigenous peoples’ building of capacity and better ways of partnership and communication between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people through design, by recognising the relationality between people and environment while acknowledging the world as a unit. Her teaching practice encourages students to develop understanding of Indigenous methodologies and their own cultural identity through a collaborative design practice.
This event is part of Melbourne Design Week 2022, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV.
Photos from the event