Multispecies Design Cards

This set of design cards was developed as part of a year-long faculty fellowship from the Center for Teaching and Learning at Pratt Institute. My project was, broadly, about design justice and associated concepts. Throughout a series of surveys and interviews with design students and faculty, I explored this term and its use in both education and practice. As the project evolved, I began to focus it around environmental justice, with an emphasis on multispecies ways of thinking and designing. The end result was a set of design cards (pictured below) that work as a tool for developing ideas for sustainable and environmentally just concepts. The cards work similarly to tarot cards, in that you can draw different cards, create spreads, and work with an associated set of questions that guide the use of the cards. These cards have been used in my Animals & Experience Design class, as well as in my own creative work. Additionally, they were distributed to several hundred participants at the 2023 HASTAC Conference.