Education Symposium & Sessions | 4 | 2-2:30 pm, Saturday | Gomes

Breakout Title:
Design to Live: Inclusive Design in the Majority World
RICARDO GOMES, IDSA

This session will outline a research project that is dedicated to developing and making accessible the late UCLA industrial design Professor Nathan Shapira’s archive, professional and scholarly works. A segment of Professor Shapira’s archive is housed in the Design and Industry Department at San Francisco State University. The research addresses the three topics that design education, practice and community development must encompass in order to facilitate the responsible development of our future society in the 21st Century: design for the majority, inclusive design and sustainability. These topics constitute three converging principles that formulate the framework of “Design for Living and Social Responsibility.” The project research seeks to reconstitute and reconnect the efforts and dynamic interests in the design community today with the “Design for the Majority” legacy that was established through ICSID and these great individuals at UCLA and the University of Nairobi. In this respect the learning outcomes from the research and session will seek to support a design retrospective, renaissance and resurgent call for “Design to Live in Our Emerging Global Societies in the Majority World!”

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