Hosted by Mark Bergin - Founder & CEO of The Design Exec Club and BETTER FUTURE
Panelists:
Aqilah Amran - Architectural Designer at align interior architecture & design
India Mitchell - Associate Architect at k20 Architecture
Lucy Swift - Craft Curator at Cluster London
Stéphane Nguyen Phan - Operations Management Trainee at Bostik Australia / Communications & Platforms Manager at AIESEC Alumni Asia Pacific
Victoria Ayo - Product Designer at Spotify
Vivian Nguyen - Freelance Illustrator
References:
Quotes:
Aqilah
Let's have that uncomfortable conversation about equity and inclusion because that's the only way we can get things off the chest and start solving our problems. 1:00:54
India
If you're trying to fit a person into a box, especially in the design world, you're not going to have that much success. 0:14:00
Lucy
The most important thing we're doing right now is acknowledging the issues that currently stand with inclusion, diversity, and equity. 0:51:55
Stéphane
[Organisations] try to integrate people into the organization, instead of trying to include them. 0:11:15
Victoria
There is no real equity without self-reflection, and that self-reflection is in itself a privilege. 0:16:27
As designers, and architects, we can design things to meet the surface level needs, but we also need those anthropological thinkers to interrogate and attack the systems at play on a larger level. 0:33:00
Vivian
It's okay to be in a grey zone and say “I don't have all the answers”. Accept ... and then seek them out. 0:58:56
Mark
If we don't actually have inclusion, we don't allow people's minds to expand, then we're not going to be able to actually understand who they are and what they do. 0:18:56