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MEDIATED PUBLICS FOR INCLUSION

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Mediated publics for inclusion are spaces that are open up participation to all. As a case study, I created Crafting Access to empower communications access for deaf and hard of hearing students in workplace, it’s impact, and what this might mean for design.My research into communications access began with the question of communications in collaboration. Informed by research on innovative environments and the link to social interactions within communities of collaborators.Where the sparks for innovation are found in these spaces isn’t the primary tasks, but in the side or social conversations. Inability to access social conversation has consequences for career satisfaction for deaf and hard of hearing, but also anyone with a barriers to social communications from gender to language. These barriers isolate workers and, in the case of the deaf and hard of hearing, create especially high numbers of un- or underemployed and reliant on public assistance, some of which can be traced to workplace discomfort.For those that stay in the workforce, advancement and achievement can be out of reach as social conversation is associated with career advancement.

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  • MEDIATEDPUBLICS FOR INCLUSION

  • CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR EDWARDS

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  • Our biggest creative breakthroughs come when people learn from, compete with, and collaborate with other people. Richard Florida

  • SOCIALTASK

  • CASE STUDY: SMALL & IN FLUX

    DECLINE IN DHH YOUTH

    POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION

    NOT IN LABOR FORCE

    16.5%4.3%26%

    Holt, Judith, Sue Hotto, and Kevin Cole. DEMOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Third Edition, 1994. Research Support & International Affa. Gallaudet University, 21 Mar. 2012. Web. 29 Apr. 2015. .

    Allen, Thomas E. Who Are the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students Leaving High School and Entering Postsecondary Education? Research Support & International AffairsG. Gallaudet University, 05 Dec. 2011. Web. 29 Apr. 2015. .

  • 75%CASE STUDY: MAINSTREAMED

  • WORKER COWORKER

    BOSSSENNETTSSOCIAL TRIANGLE

    Sennett, Richard. Together: The rituals, pleasures and politics of cooperation. Yale University Press, 2012.

  • DEAF/HH ALLIES

    CAREER NAVIGATORSMODIFIED SOCIAL TRIANGLE

  • APPLY

    JOB LEADS

    INTERVIEW

    INSIDE CONTACTS

    TRAIN

    MEETING COLLEAGUES

    WORK

    COLLAB- ORATION

    PROMOTION

    WORK- RELATED GOSSIP

    SUPERVISE

    EMPLOYEE SENTIMENT

    CAREER STAGES

    HIRING WORKING ADVANCING

    SOCIAL NEEDS

    SELF DEFINITION

    DISCLOSURE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

    NOTES & TIMELINE

    IDENTIFYING ALLIES

    CONVERSATION FRAMEWORK

  • CAREER SERVICESWORKBOOKSCAREER BOOKS

  • SCORE ASSOCIATION(nonprofit)

    COMMUNITIES OF RECOVERY(positive deviance)

    WALK [YOUR CITY]

    (tactile urbanism)

  • ZINES

    (hand made, open distribution)

  • TOOLS AND STRATEGIES FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING IN THE WORKPLACE

  • HACKa strategy or technique adopted in

    order to manage ones daily activities

    CRAFTan activity involving skill

  • INDVIDUAL ASSESSMENT INTERDEPENDENCE

    GUIDED DISCUSSIONFINDING ALLIES RULES OF ENGAGEMENTDEFINE & DISCLOSE

  • It's very interesting and useful when we discussed and share experiences together. I learned something new from others like

    how to deal with an interview.

  • ASSUMPTION

    ACTIVITIES

    OBJECTIVES

    Social systems turn impairments into disabilities. Access to social communications requires social tools.

    Web & social media

    Online communities

    Free & paid work-books

    Low-costworkshops

    Paid 1-on-1 coaching

    Develop free-to-paid framework that supports interdependent accessibility.

    Individual empowerment System interdependence

    Facilitating 1-on-1 and group interactions

    Distributing workbook and framework online

    Impacting career services tools

    Develop workshop distribution channel

    Job coaching and intersecting with

    career consultants

    Make use of emerging behavior change tech

    Relieve anxiety over access challenges through pre-planning

    Support conversations allies and impaired

    Increasing agency and job satisfaction for DHH in their careers.

    INTENDED SHORT TERM

    OUTCOMES

    INTENDED LONG TERM OUTCOMES

    ASSUMPTION

    THEORY OF CHANGE

  • WORKSHOPS

  • ONE-ON-ONE COACHING

  • CAREER SERVICES

  • ONLINE

  • CRAFT HACK

    PRESENT

  • Nobody goes for a walk without having something that supports that walk, something outside of ourselves. Judith Butler

    Examined Life: Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor. Dir. Astra Taylor. Perf. Slavoj Zizek, Cornel West, Peter Singer, Judith Butler, and Kwame Anthony Appiah. Zeitgeist Films, 2008. YouTube. Google, 6 Oct. 2010. Web. 26 Nov. 2014. .

  • MEDIATEDPUBLICS FOR INCLUSION

    THANK YOU

    @craftingaccess