International Womxn’s Week 2022
Program Design
Strategy
Program Design
Strategy
As Co-Chairs of Womxn in Design, a student-led group at Harvard GSD committed to advancing gender equity across campus, we organized a week long series of events for International Womxn’s Week in collaboration with Women's Law Association (WLA) at the Harvard Law school. Our shared theme for IWW 2022 was “Access”.
This was central to both WiD and WLA’s values of moving away from a society that prioritizes selected groups while marginalizing others. We also defined access as “the right or opportunity to use or benefit from something,” which illuminated the future work that is needed to tackle issues of accessibility, race, gender, class, and so much more in the context of design and the legal system.
This was central to both WiD and WLA’s values of moving away from a society that prioritizes selected groups while marginalizing others. We also defined access as “the right or opportunity to use or benefit from something,” which illuminated the future work that is needed to tackle issues of accessibility, race, gender, class, and so much more in the context of design and the legal system.
Areti Kotsoni, Snow Xu, Tara Bassi (Co Chairs of Womxn in Design 2022-23 left to right)
We define “Access” in two ways. The first definition of the word—“a means of approaching or entering a place”—reflects the physicality of access.
Exhibition at Frances Loeb Library
Work by keynote speaker Nitasha Dhillon