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Design Changemakers Library: Co-Design Experiment

We are a collective of values-driven designers and creators building a free, open-source library on designing for positive change. Join us in our co-design experiment by contributing your skills/time or funds to support us.

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Co-Design Project Launch!

We've just launched our project and have put out a public invitation for co-designers to join in and support the project. ...
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Published on March 21, 2024 by Sandra Camacho

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Read our Initial Experiment  Overview on Notion.
Read our Experiment Overview on Medium.


Who Are We?
We are twenty person group of volunteers. We don’t have any funding or many resources but are hoping to harness the power of co-design to bring this vision to life. We’ll have to make realistic tradeoffs along the way in line with the resources at our disposal (not just in terms of time and skills but also physical, mental and emotional well-being).

  • Sandra Camacho (She/Her) is an inclusive & equitable design educator and strategist and founder of Design Changemakers and the Inclusive Design Jam. After her recent health crisis, she was inspired to create this project to better bridge equity approaches with community collaboration. 
  • kon syrokostas (He/Him) is a Software Engineer and Trauma Recovery Coach. He graciously raised his hand to be the first contributor on the team
    More co-designers to be added soon. 

Our Vision for the Library 
We envision building a library that is a portal to a multiplicity of perspectives, learnings, approaches, people and communities on designing for positive change. 
Ideally, it will be: 
  • Free.
  • Open-source.
  • Built by the community for the community.
  • Interactive and dynamic.
  • Thoughtfully curated and categorized.
  • Regularly updated.
  • Searchable and personalizable.
  • Designed with inclusion, accessibility and equity at heart.

Our Goals  
  • Make the universe of resources on designing for positive change easier to access and navigate through thoughtful curation, categorization and personalization
  • Surface a diversity of perspectives and lived experiences, with a central focus on those from historically marginalized groups
  • Honor the individuals who have brought these resources to life
  • Make code, process and learnings transparently accessible to wider community of creators, designers and developers

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