Anne Massey in conversation with Kitt Santos, the 2024 Design Writing Prize Winner

Guest judge Prof. Anne Massey in conversation with the 2024 DWP winner Kitt Santos, Designer and graduate of the Master of Design Futures programme at RMIT University, Melbourne, about their winning paper "Examining design orientations through Indigenous Filipino strengths' perspective".

This paper explores how design has historically been shaped by Western politics and frameworks, influencing products and services across diverse contexts, and offers an alternative design approach grounded in Indigenous Filipino values, emphasizing human dignity, collective strength, and inclusion while encouraging designers to embrace plurality and diverse experiences.

This paper was published in the text Entanglements of Designing Social Innovation in the Asia-Pacific

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