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  1. Making work visible in the theater of service design

    Making work visible in the theater of service design

    Capitalist service design is grounded on a theater metaphor that guides service designers to make work invisible, away from customer scrutiny and public accountability. In this way, service design contributes to hiding the extreme work exploitation that digital service workers undergo, generating a situation where workers can only reclaim their visibility through striking. If service […] - Feb 24, 2023
  2. Design, Oppression, and Liberation 2

    Design, Oppression, and Liberation 2

    Van Amstel, F. M. C., Gonzatto, R. F., & Noel, L.-A. (2023). Introduction to Diseña 22: Design, Oppression, and Liberation (2nd issue). Diseña, (22), Intro. https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.22.Intro - Feb 13, 2023
  3. Expressing the positionality of the design body

    Expressing the positionality of the design body

    Trial lecture for the Associate Professor of Design and Visual Communications position at the University of Florida, United States of America, 2023. Paulo Freire was a Brazilian educator who, in the 1960s, developed a highly efficient method for enabling illiterate people to learn to read by introducing political topics into literacy education. He was persecuted, […] - Feb 3, 2023