{"id":441,"date":"2016-09-15T04:16:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T04:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designinnovationmanagement.com\/2019\/?page_id=441"},"modified":"2018-10-31T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T16:16:13","slug":"track-2-c","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/designinnovationmanagement.com\/2019\/track-2-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Track 2.c\tGender of\/in design practice and profession"},"content":{"rendered":"

*P\u0131nar Kaygan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
\nLeah Armstrong, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
\nKatarina Serulus, KU Leuven, Belgium
\nKaisu Savola, Aalto University, Finland
\n*contact:\u00a0pkaygan@metu.edu.tr<\/a><\/p>\n

Social constructionist feminist research of the last decades has shown that if we look closely enough we can see that artifacts are gendered by design. Some artifacts are gendered explicitly through their direct association with the traditional binary of women or men users; while gender is inscribed into others in more subtle ways through the normative conceptions regarding (1) their use contexts (public\/private), (2) gender symbols and myths (strong\/weak, rational\/emotional, dirty\/clean, adventurous\/safe etc.) and (3) relationship with technology. This dualistic view serves as a useful strategy in design and marketing to create new segments to expand the market. Yet artifacts shaped by this view embody, represent and reproduce asymmetries in gender power relations.
\nThese asymmetries also find form in the professional work cultures and power dynamics of design practice. Gender dynamics are both seen and unseen; played out in the everyday interactions of the design office or studio and in the public performance of the designer\u2019s role for client or public audiences. As such, implicitly and explicitly, gender roles have the capacity to enable or inhibit the role of designer as an agent for social change.
\nThis track seeks to open up a new avenue for feminist scholarship and trans\/gender research in design innovation by exploring the relationship between design and gender and its implications for design as both practice and profession. We invite papers addressing the questions including but not exclusive to:
\n\u2022 What is the relationship between gender and design practice and how is this changing in contemporary design culture?
\n\u2022 How and to what extent can designers act as agents of change by formulating gender inequalities in terms of design problems?
\n\u2022 Are there any design methodologies and tools that encourage inclusive and gender-sensitive design practices?
\n\u2022 How can contemporary post-colonial theory and trans\/gender research generate new approaches?
\n\u2022 What insights can gender and design histories bring to contemporary research?
\n\u2022 How can design educators better contribute to creating an awareness in young designers to design for a more egalitarian world for people with various gender identities?<\/p>\n

Indicative References<\/strong><\/p>\n

Armstrong, Leah (2012) \u2018Portraits: Women Designers\u2019, A digital resource, University of Brighton Design Archives. http:\/\/arts.brighton.ac.uk\/collections\/design-archives\/resources\/women-designers<\/p>\n

Kaygan, Harun, P\u0131nar Kaygan, and \u00d6z\u00fcmcan Demir (2017) A pen that \u2018looks like a CEO in a business suit\u2019: Gendering the fountain pen. Journal of Gender Studies. doi: 10.1080\/09589236.2017.1409105<\/p>\n

Kaygan, P\u0131nar (2016) Gender, technology, and the designer\u2019s work: A feminist review. Design and Culture, 8(2): 235-252. DOI: 10.1080\/17547075.2016.1172862<\/p>\n

Rossi, Catharine (2009) \u2018Furniture, feminism and the feminine: Women designers in post-war Italy, 1945-1970\u2019. Journal of Design History, 22(3): 243\u2013257. doi:10.1093\/jdh\/epp022<\/p>\n

Schultz, Tristan, Danah Abdulla, Ahmed Ansari, Ece Canl\u0131, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Matthew Kiem, Luiza Prado de O. Martins and Pedro J.S. Vieira de Oliveira (eds.) (2018) Special Issue: Decolonising Design. Design and Culture, 10(1): 1-6. doi:10.1080\/17547075.2018.1434367<\/p>\n

van der Velden, Maja and Christina M\u00f6rtberg (2012) Between Need and Desire: Exploring Strategies for Gendering Design. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 37(6): 663-683. doi: 10.1177\/0162243911401632<\/p>\n

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*P\u0131nar Kaygan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Leah Armstrong, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria Katarina Serulus, KU Leuven, Belgium Kaisu Savola, Aalto University, Finland *contact:\u00a0pkaygan@metu.edu.tr Social constructionist feminist research of the last decades has shown that if we look closely enough we can see that artifacts are gendered by design. Some artifacts are gendered… Track 2.c\tGender of\/in design practice and profession<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-441","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designinnovationmanagement.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designinnovationmanagement.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designinnovationmanagement.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designinnovationmanagement.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designinnovationmanagement.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/designinnovationmanagement.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designinnovationmanagement.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}