Posts tagged equity
Discovering what matters to communities when researching mental health
Discovering what matters to communities when researching mental health

This Mental Health Awareness Week we’re exploring our role as researchers and designers in projects that centre mental health and wellbeing for young people.  We are particularly curious about how we establish the right conditions for exploring these issues with our partners in the work – and how we can best share our lessons with others.

In this blog, we focus on three areas that have become especially important to us at Dartington:

  • the beginning of the projects and our own standpoint as we begin,

  • the process of establishing strong relationships that can hold complexity and trust, and

  • the sustainability and impact of our shared work on mental health. 

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News, ReflectionBLOGequity, Learning, mental health, research, Design, Catherine-rose, alice, Rachel Lily, Alice Hewson
One year on – sharing learning from our anti-racism work
One year on – sharing learning from our anti-racism work

In the summer of 2021, Dartington Service Design Lab published a position paper: ‘Embedding an anti-racist approach in research and design’. This included our initial assessment of some of the ways in which racism manifests in research and design and a summary of some actions and commitments that we, organisationally, undertook.

One of these commitments was to share reflections and learning on this journey, and progress against actions. This blog is one such way of doing this.

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NewsBLOGAnti-racism, equity, diversity, inclusion, Learning, Anti-racist approach