SydDT #86: World Interaction Design Day 2023: Ethics, Equity, +Responsibility

We've teamed up with our friends from IxDA Sydney to put on a meetup for World Interaction Design Day 2023: Ethics, Equity, +Responsibility. This is IxDA's annual event where we come together as a united global community to show how interaction design improves the human condition.

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This year’s theme encompasses areas such as ethics in design, designing for accessibility, inclusive and responsible design, and anti-capitalist design. It focuses on the need to consider design’s impact on society and to create work that is equitable and responsible, all in service of advancing IxDA’s mission: improving the human condition by advancing the practice of Interaction Design.

Ben Pecotich from Dynamic4 will be talking about Regenerative Design & Innovation… for Happier Communities. The purpose of his talk is to help people who design, build, launch, and run product, service, and business ideas - and lead these teams - to design for regeneration, be financially successful, and increase our wellbeing while we do it.

Sara Cave and Will Farrier from WAVE will lead an activity on the importance of ethics, equity, and responsibility in design - drawing on Will’s reflections on how to put people first in community care settings.

SPEAKER
Ben Pecotich
Design & Innovation Director, Dynamic4
Ben Pecotich is a designer, coach, and the founder of Dynamic4 - a social enterprise and B Corp focused on design and innovation for happier communities. He plays at the place where design, regenerative innovation, and wellbeing meet... and spends his time coaching leaders to solve problems that matter in more empathic and innovative ways to create great outcomes for people and our planet while being financially successful and increasing their wellbeing.

Since starting in financial services in 1993, he's been focused on taking a human-centred approach to designing and leading strategic change in Australia, NZ, the UK, and Europe. He co-founded his first startup in 1994, and has been working on startups and social enterprises ever since.

Ben's also the author of Solve Problems That Matter: Design, Build & Launch Your Social Enterprise Idea, co-founder of the Sydney Design Thinking meetup, and was a founding board member of the Social Enterprise Council of NSW & ACT (SECNA).

EVENT SPONSORS
Thanks to Wave Design for sponsoring this event.