Transformative Research Toolkit
The Transformative Research Toolkit provides strategies and resources for community-driven research, emphasizing participatory action, cultural knowledge, and empowerment to address social justice issues and promote inclusion and belonging.
belonging.berkeley.eduResistance must work to transform the conditions that created the need for that resistance in the first place.
Process and solution should be driven by the community;
who gets to participate in and control design processes,
Kurt Lewin, the founder of action research, is quoted as saying, “You cannot understand a system until you try to change it.”1
Developing power is about winning power, with the goal not merely being heard, of making the case, but of winning power to transform the world, not to merely tinker round its edges.
In the pursuit of utility and significance, design can include making something new, but it can also include unmaking the world as it is, or perhaps remaking it, with parts and systems alike.
rethink extractive design processes and to replace them with approaches that produce community ownership, profit, credit, and visibility.