Welcome Open Repositories 2018 attendees! We’re glad you’re interested in the Design for Diversity project.

 

About Design for Diversity

 

The Design for Diversity project, supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, focuses on the ways in which information systems embody and reinforce cultural norms, asking how we can design systems that account for diverse cultural materials and ways of knowing. As part of this project we are building a collaborative pedagogical toolkit to encourage inclusive and ethical practices in information sciences and system design. It will include an expanding set of materials including sample assignments, curricular modules, suggested readings, and case studies, and the Digital Library Federation will eventually host the Toolkit as a growing community-driven resource.

 

About the Toolkit Format

 

We chose a teaching and learning toolkit format because it:

  • ● Serves as a concrete intervention for wide circulation
  • ● Involves users as active learners rather than passive readers
  • ● Provides immediate resources to current practitioners plus prompts for education of future practitioners
  • ● Teaches a problem as a research question, prompting a critical design approach rather than listing specific recommendations that quickly become obsolete

Features of our toolkit will include:

  • ● Modular, adaptable, study paths
  • ● Readings on and examples of existing work, theoretical and practical
  • ● Real-world case studies as design provocations to exemplify or problematize theoretical concerns

For more information:

 

Participate

 

 

Propose a Case Study

 

 

Attend the Review Forum

 

● Register to attend the August 2018 review forum

 

Teach with the Toolkit

 

● Sign up to help us test the Toolkit in your classroom or workplace (starting January 2019)

 

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