With, not For

Well, it should, and Dr Elaine Laforteza has been studying the effects when a persons' name is either ignored or continually mispronounced. She explains why pronouncing names matters and, more importantly, gives practical tips on how to help people pronounce your name correctly.    For more on Say My Name, visit: https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/multicultural-womens-network/say-my-name  

Having a parasitic relationship can be a good thing, just look at the benefits of a strangler fig on a tree. So says Tyson Yunkaporta, author and academic, who looks at western society through an indigenous lens and discusses truth-telling, wrong-story, yarning, pump and dump schemes, and the why some are hoping for the ‘rapture'. Oh, and the big takeaway, don't wrestle with pigs! Listen and learn why.    Tyson Yunkaporta's two books, 'Sand Talk' and 'Right Story, Wrong Story', are available from Booktopia.com.au. 

Listen to how Arcadis' Experience Designer, Paul Conder, uses agile principles to rapidly test and validate his design work, bringing deep customer insights to target the needs of the market. Paul believes the more inclusion is demonstrated to be viable, to design with everyone and not for, the more inclusive design will become the norm with Industry and government. Resources: https://www.arcadis.com/en Amazon.com.au : victor papanek The Effortless Experience by Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman, Rick DeLisi: 9781591845812 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Designing a watch for people who are vision impaired, or blind, is challenging, since talking timepieces are intrusive and not everyone reads Braille. There's only one answer. Get vision impaired and blind people to design with you, and you'll create Eone's Bradley timepiece, which is practical, fashionable, a great fidget toy, and a perfect example of designing for everyone. Brand Manager, Daniel Ly, chatted with Manisha Amin about the timepiece and what inclusive design really means. In 2017 Eone founder, Hyungsoo Kim, gave a TED Talk explaining why he wanted to make a watch for the vision impaired and blind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E6rfzPFb6M  

With over 30 years' experience, Arina Aoina challenges the concept of what a refuge is, and can be, and is committed to increasing the overall wellbeing and safety of individuals, families, and communities. Arina also has a unique approach to inter-agency relationships to address hidden biases and get the best outcomes. 

While Christine Fraser loves her golf, she recognises golf needs to be more inclusive. It should be accessible to anyone who wants to play. As a course designer, Christine is on a mission to make this happen. Listen to Christine talk about how golf can be more inclusive and how she has broken barriers to be one of a handful of female designers. Even if you don't care about golf, Christine has a lot to say about acceptance and inclusion. There's something for everyone. St Andrews Golf Course - https://standrews.com/homepage/ Christine Fraser -  https://www.christinefraserdesign.com/about    

How do we harness AI for good? How can we make it accessible and valuable for as many people as possible? A panel of industry experts, including Dona Sarkar from Microsoft, tackled these pivotal questions in a special online seminar recorded Tuesday, 27 June. Have a listen to what the future may bring on our two-part special podcast.

How do we harness AI for good? How can we make it accessible and valuable for as many people as possible? A panel of industry experts, including Dona Sarkar from Microsoft, tackled these pivotal questions in a special online seminar recorded Tuesday, 27 June. Have a listen to what the future may bring on our two-part special podcast.   

What's the point in agitating to change the present, if bigotry is being embedded into our futures? Journalist Tracey Spicer chats about her new book, Man Made, delving into the AI melee, uncovering the inequities and exclusions, but also what can be done to change the future for the better. Tracey's book: https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Man-Made/Tracey-Spicer/9781761106378

How different is a young person's view to urban planning, and what needs to change within the process for it to be truly inclusive? Former Urban Planner and Associate Professor at Sydney University, Deena Ridenour, tackles these and other questions on With, Not For.     

Did you know the ‘job interview' is redundant, and leadership courses are following outdated perceptions? Hear what Nadya Powell, CEO and founder of Utopia, has to say about why today's businesses must change, and what Nadya and her fellow activists are doing to challenge businesses in the name of inclusion.

The United Nations pledged to remove all obstacles to gender equality and the empowerment and advancement of women. Today, 25-years later, only a handful of businesses have achieved the UN's goal. Sandra D'Souza, CEO and founder of Ellect, has developed a model to encourage and reward all size businesses to bridge the gender gap and achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion. Sandra chats about what inspired her and the processes on With, Not For. For more on Sandra and Ellect check out the website: https://www.ellect.biz/

While a picture can say more than words, it doesn't always reflect the truth. In this podcast we speak to Kate Rourke, Asia-Pacific Head of Creative Insights for Getty Images about what Getty's is doing to debias our view of the world. Kate also explains how we can use Getty's resources to promote a more inclusive society, exhibiting diversity and challenging stereotypes.   Getty Images' resources:   iStock and iStock's Visual GPS platform - https://www.istockphoto.com/  and https://www.istockphoto.com/visual-gps/insights  Getty Images' Visual GPS Creative Insights includes a wealth of resources for businesses looking to make their internal and external visual communications more inclusive – https://creativeinsights.gettyimages.com/en 

In this day and age, it is shocking to learn 75 percent of LGBTQ+ young people are being bullied, and 59.1 percent contemplate suicide as the answer to their problems.    Lara Husselbee, Experience Designer, Board Director and co-President of Wear it Purple talks about the issues facing queer young people, what an Experience Design is and how it promotes inclusion, and what it means to be an ‘active' ally.   Link to the Wear it Purple website: https://www.wearitpurple.org/  

What's the 'special sauce' in design thinking to solve the environmental impact of 50 million pigs and 250 million chickens, and other complex, multilayered problems the world is facing?   Listen to Prof Kees Dorst explain how a transdisciplinary approach to problems, lead by design thinking, is resulting in sustainable solutions to answer social, environmental and business problems.   Link to Kees' book: https://www.bookdepository.com/author/Kees-Dorst   Centre for Inclusive Design Website: https://centreforinclusivedesign.org.au/   Centre for Inclusive Design LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/cfid  

Our guest on this episode of With, not, For is author, podcaster, producer and storyteller, Rojé Augustin. Rojé is a native New York based in Sydney. In this conversation Rojé and Manisha talk candidly about racism, it's cost to the workforce and what we can do about it.  Find more of Rojés' writing on the costs of racism in her ABC article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-03/racism-costing-the-australian-economy-billions/100252786 Listen to her exploration of the relationship between creatives and their workspaces on her podcast The Right Space: https://therightspace-show.squarespace.com/introduction

In this episode, Manisha Amin speaks with professional funny person Madeleine Stewart. Madeleine is an award-winning comedian, writer, producer, life-long disability advocate and creator behind Crips and Creeps: Sydney's first accessible comedy club.

In this episode, Manisha Amin speaks to Jan Golembieski. Jan is a world leader in researching architectural design psychology, with a focus on the relationship between experiences and the neurological mechanisms that cause them. Jan is an internationally recognised keynote speaker, has completed his PhD, and now runs his own practice - Psychological Design.  Find out more about Psychological Design, or connect with Jan on LinkedIn Visit the Centre for Inclusive Design website Connect with Dr Manisha Amin on LinkedIn, and follow CfID on LinkedIn

This month we speak with Melinda Briana Epler, a TED speaker, diversity and inclusion advocate, and, being CEO of Change Catalyst, Melinda is a leader building inclusion innovation across the globe. She has also released a book, How to Be an Ally, actions you can take for a stronger, happier workplace. Hear Melinda talk about her book and the practical steps we can take to be a better ally.

In this episode, Manisha Amin speaks with activist and model, Angel Dixon, and Lead Researcher, Kelsey Chapman about their work on The Dignity Project, a community-building project aiming to uncover the meaning of dignity for people with disabilities or impairments.

This episode we speak with Alison Page, a Walbanga and Wadi Wadi woman, film maker, storyteller and architect, about how to include traditional cultures into future designs

Steph Sands, Head of Diversity and Inclusion for Australian and New Zealand with Capgemini, and award-winning ABC journalist and documentary maker, Mon Shafter, look back at how much has changed for LGBTQ+ groups across the western world, the effects on workplace, media influence, and what still needs to change for a more inclusive society. 

In this month's episode of With, not For, we speak to David Dylan Thomas, the Author of Design for Cognitive Bias. David's work focuses on the intersection of bias, design, and social justice. His work in content strategy focuses on how it can mitigate bias (or use it for good) and help people talk to each other more clearly and treat each other more equitably. Episode transcript available here.  In this episode, Manisha and David discuss:  Operationalising the mitigation of cognitive bias Removing bias from the hiring process  Preventing assimilation in workplaces An Avengers analogy to understand diverse hiring  Setting goals to achieve real change  The limitations of GDP - what about Gross Domestic Happiness?  Design education and learning ethics ----more---- Visit the Centre for Inclusive Design website.  Connect with Dr Manisha Amin on LinkedIn, and follow CfID on LinkedIn. 

Pinar Guvenc is a partner at SOUR, a human-centric architecture firm. Pinar is an amazing advocate for Inclusive Design and shares with us some incredible examples of true collaborative design and her experience being a woman the male dominated industry that is architecture.  Episode transcript available here.