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Awareness & Inclusivity of Gender in Design Education
Final Master Project | M2.2 | 2020
Sensitive topics like non-binary gender identities are becoming increasingly more prevalent in society. However, design is still far away from being fully inclusive, and designers are lacking the knowledge, awareness, and guidance on these relevant topics to enact positive change. This project aims to create more knowledge, awareness, and inclusivity on non- binary aspect and implications in design and design education, in order to eventually see positive change in society as well.

To create this knowledge and awareness, a platform was created that introduces students to the topic of non-binary gender identities. Moreover, the platform provides students with a set of guidelines to implement the obtained knowledge and awareness, and also provides them with additional literature for further reading into the subject. Students were asked to fill in a questionnaire after experiencing the platform in order to determine the success of the project. Afterwards, a thematic analysis method was used to analyse the data from the questionnaire. Results suggest that the platform was successful in its ability to provide students with the knowledge, awareness and guidance they need to create more inclusive designs. This paves the way for the future development of the platform, and more inclusivity in design and society.

This project concludes with several ways of growing the existing platform in the future, and emphasises that designers in an educational setting should obtain increased non-binary, genderqueer and genderless knowledge, awareness, and guidance to increase inclusiveness in design and society.
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