Designers Hold

Power in Creating
Equitable Futures
With Jahan Mantin & Boyuan Gao

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 + Who we are

+ What we believe

+ Intro to Inkblot Design™

+ Dope BIPOC designers!

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 Who The Hell Are We?

Boyuan Gao | Co-Founder

Jahan Mantin | Co-Founder

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 We’re a BIPOC owned
and operated company
that provides
transformational
learning through

Inkblot Design™

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 INKubator

We Incubate
BIPOC creators and
their equitable projects

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 Equity Leadership

We support c-suite
leaders with mindsets and
practices for co-design

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 Inkblot Design™
Resources

We build digital
co-design learning tools
and content for everyone

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 Equitable Design
IS
Co-Design
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 From For to With

Human Centered Design Co-Design

Design For Design With

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 All people are designers.
No matter your role, title or upbringing,
we are constantly designing all of the time.

For BIPOC and misrepresented people,

things are constantly being designed
around us - or at best - for us,
but rarely with us.
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 Who Is A Designer?

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 Inkblot Design™

A Framework to Radically
Transform The Mindsets,
1. Who Are 3. Who Do You
Practices And Experiences You? Design With?
Of How You Design
Through Three lenses:
2. What Are You
Designing?

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CORE QUESTION

How do your various

identities influence your
1. Who The Hell approach to how you

Are You design?

How do the identities within

your team influence and
impact your design
decisions together?

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CORE QUESTION

Is what you’re designing

3. What Will You addressing a root cause?

Design
What’s the worst case
scenario, and on whom?

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CORE QUESTION

Who might you be excluding?

3. Who Will You

Design With How are you centering
misrepresented people as
leaders in the design
process?

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 Eda + Geneva (SOW)
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 Who Is A Designer?

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