Designers play an important role in how we experience the world and who gets to participate. At times, inclusive design can feel daunting. Inclusion covers many different lenses, from disability and accessibility to working against bias in algorithms. There’s much to learn. Enter Welcomed by Design: the show where we talk about the many ways to move towards a more inclusive future. 

Full podcast available on Spotify and LibSyn. URL for Spotfiy: https://open.spotify.com/show/2fiqvtqdyyZfpGATtPLpgl
Join us to hear from people working as advocates, practitioners, and researchers and learn how we can make every mind and body feel more welcomed by design.

Cover art description:
Open door emerging from sound waves. The door is giving off a path of light. On that path, text reads “welcomed by design” [end of description]
(Cover art illustrated by Lynn Priestley)

Meet the team:
Host: Lynn Priestley
Sound design: Clare Sheedy
Producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick

We are creating a resource library full of tools and readings that will be useful in getting started with inclusive design. This library will include content specific to episodes, like written transcripts of the episodes and readings or tools mentioned during conversations with guests.

Link to resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e

Welcomed by Design

Join us to learn from authors, researchers, designers, advocates, and practitioners across a range of fields. Together, we’ll find out how we can make the future of design more accessible and inclusive. This is Welcomed by Design.

Cover art description:
Open door emerging from sound waves. The door is giving off a path of light. On that path, text reads “welcomed by design” [end of description]
(Cover art illustrated by Lynn Priestley)
Meet the team:
Host: Lynn Priestley, Sound design: Clare Sheedy, Producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick

Link to transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ll-VR9YXlyMpknklRyYHOGddIjPn4BQ6AZ96fy7M-RE/edit

For more information... 
about the idea of "average" users discussed in the trailer, check out issue one of the “Body Language” zine which explores the idea of “normal” and “average”. 
Link to the zine: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xFaw83qEkF0jaNRRqlncgKnJ52XjGqNOKi9glFwZsg8/edit

You'll notice the above link leads you to a Google doc. We are creating a resource library full of tools and readings that will be useful in getting started with inclusive design. This library will include content specific to episodes, like written transcripts of the episodes and readings.
 
Link to resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e

Readings referenced in trailer:
Dolmage, Jay. (2008). Mapping composition: Inviting disability in the front door. In Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson & Brenda Jo Brueggemann (Eds.), Disability and the Teaching of Writing (pp. 14-27). Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's Press.

Sound credits:
Confectionery by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), Flatlands by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), Algea Fields by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

Welcomed By Design : Trailer

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