The Radical Inclusive Attitudes (RIA) is a new concept and a collective of design researchers.
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The Radical Inclusive Attitudes (RIA) is a new concept and a collective of design researchers.
As a concept, it has been developed in parallel with the DesIA research project. It explores what radical inclusive attitudes are and how they are needed to create conditions for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in complex contexts such as those related to immigration, gender-based violence, and poverty.
The RIA as a collective was formed during a design research conference where the principal investigator of the DesIA project presented some research works on the Design for Inclusive Attitudes (DxIA) approach. A workshop developed at this conference, and the discourses that emerged from the conference meetings, allowed the shaping of the RIA collective. As a consequence, the RIA design researchers started working on this concept by positioning the RIA concept in a scientific framework. The intermediate result is a paper titled “Radical Inclusive Attitudes: The Challenge of Doing, Undoing, and Redoing the World-in-the-Making” which is going to be presented at the Cumulus 2024 Conference in Budapest (May 15-17).
The authors of the paper are the main components of the RIA collective.
The Radical Inclusive Attitudes (RIA) is a new concept and a collective of design researchers.
As a concept, it has been developed in parallel with the DesIA research project. It explores what radical inclusive attitudes are and how they are needed to create conditions for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in complex contexts such as those related to immigration, gender-based violence, and poverty.
The RIA as a collective was formed during a design research conference where the principal investigator of the DesIA project presented some research works on the Design for Inclusive Attitudes (DxIA) approach. A workshop developed at this conference, and the discourses that emerged from the conference meetings, allowed the shaping of the RIA collective. As a consequence, the RIA design researchers started working on this concept by positioning the RIA concept in a scientific framework. The intermediate result is a paper titled “Radical Inclusive Attitudes: The Challenge of Doing, Undoing, and Redoing the World-in-the-Making” which is going to be presented at the Cumulus 2024 Conference in Budapest (May 15-17).
The authors of the paper are the main components of the RIA collective.
Daniele Busciantella-Ricci is an Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) at the Department of Architecture at the University of Florence, he works on the Research Through Co-design for inclusive services and social innovation. Also, he is exploring the Design for Inclusive Attitudes approach.
Luis Soares, PhD in Science and Technology Studies, holds a prestigious role at the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh. He contributes expertise to collaborative research on Generative AI and IoT device lifecycles, aiming to improve urban environments, and IoT repairability, and foster a fairer, sustainable society.
Lakshmi Srinivasan, an Assistant Professor of Design at BITS Design School, Mumbai, is a design educator, spatial practitioner, and architect. Her research interests and passion centre around developing interdisciplinary approaches in design pedagogy and the spatial dimensions of inclusion.
Anne H. Berry, an Associate Professor at Cleveland State University, is co-creator of Ongoing Matter: Democracy, Design, and the Mueller Report and managing editor of The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression, and Reflection.
Mike de Kreek is a Senior Researcher at the Civic Interaction Design research group at the AUAS Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries. As an action researcher, he focuses on collaborative learning processes between diverse community stakeholders fuelled by creative methods.
TITLE | RADICAL INCLUSIVE ATTITUDES: THE CHALLENGE OF DOING, UNDOING, AND REDOING THE WORLD-IN-THE-MAKING.
Authors:
Daniele Busciantella-Ricci, Luis Soares, Lakshmi Srinivasan, Mike de
Kreek, Anne H. Berry
ABSTRACT | Social complexities have increased in the aftermath of global phenomena such as the migrant crisis, intensifying socio-economic inequities, racial discrimination, and backlash against the universal rights of minority groups. These are challenging how designers respond to social issues. Human-centred policies and socially inclusive design methods, gravitating towards designer-centred perspectives, fall short of encompassing systemic, intersectional, and transdisciplinary perspectives and limit possibilities for action. Consequently, we are calling for a paradigm shift from the centralisation of power held by design processes to situation-centred approaches (which we define as design-uncentred) that prioritise local communities, strategies, movements, and activism. Responding, we introduce the Radical Inclusive Attitudes (RIA) concept, a cultural design framework to challenge conventional thinking about inclusive design in favour of critical, collaborative, transdisciplinary strategies that can best address complexity.
Findings from the Designing for Inclusive Attitudes (DxIA) project illustrate what the Radical Inclusive Attitude (RIA) concept is (or aims to be). RIA was developed from a triangulation analysis of resources such as insights from (i) a co-design workshop run at an international design conference, (ii) a situational analysis of an immigrant hospitality model case study, and (iii) a thematic analysis of data collected via virtual workshops with an international collective of design researchers. We are introducing a novel approach to navigate and explore social complexities while creatively acting in the situation. Conclusions highlight relevant implications of the RIA design framework for the third and voluntary sectors and policymakers and foster the decolonisation of the design process.
KEYWORDS | RADICAL INCLUSIVE ATTITUDES, SYSTEMIC THINKING, RADICAL DESIGN CULTURE, INTERSECTIONALITY, SITUATION-CENTRED DESIGN
Destination: Cumulus Budapest 2024 Conference
The paper has been presented at the Cumulus 2024 Conference in Budapest by Daniele and Lakshmi within the track Ways of Living Together.
