This Class Isn't Designed For Me: Recognizing Ableist Trends In Design Education, And Redesigning For An Inclusive And Sustainable Future
<|reference_start|>This Class Isn't Designed For Me: Recognizing Ableist Trends In Design Education, And Redesigning For An Inclusive And Sustainable Future: Traditional and currently-prevalent pedagogies of design perpetuate ableist and exclusionary notions of what it means to be a designer. In this paper, we trace such historically exclusionary norms of design education, and highlight modern-day instances from our own experiences as design educators in such epistemologies. Towards imagining a more inclusive and sustainable future of design education, we present three case studies from our own experience as design educators in redesigning course experiences for blind and low-vision (BLV), deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students, and students with other disabilities. In documenting successful and unsuccessful practices, we imagine what a pedagogy of care in design education would look like.<|reference_end|>
@article{ghosh2024this,
    title={This Class Isn't Designed For Me: Recognizing Ableist Trends In Design
  Education, And Redesigning For An Inclusive And Sustainable Future},
    author={Sourojit Ghosh, Sarah Coppola},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.15402},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.21606/drs.2024.1070.},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.15402},
    primaryClass={cs.CY}
}