Dis/re-orienting design through norm-critical gender lenses: an educational case in Turkey.

ABSTRACT: Design, as a practice of developing solutions beyond products, and increasingly services and policies, inevitably poses an impact on gender (in)equality which remains largely unrecognized by design practitioners. This paper advocates the urgent need for adopting gender lenses in design education for sustainable cultural transformation through proper recognition of the complexity of any societal and cultural issue, power relations and inequalities, and introduces an initial attempt through a graduate-level educational design project. Throughout the project, students critically reflected on existing orientations in designing to develop norm-critical gender lenses, contained the resultant disorientation emerging from the contrast between their critical approaches and local contexts, and explo

SUBMITTER: Yetis EO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11007197 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature