Research and Ramblings

Amidst the chaos of bad business, from unethical technology implementation which impacts climate refugees, job displacements, echo chambers, disinformation campaigns and doom scrolling, the search for truth and passion projects prevails. Designerd delves into the human experience of life at this shifting point in time. Where every word we choose to share online is like a piece of your soul that you know could be crawled, scraped and repackaged without your consent. But does it matter? If we are to truly transform our spaces into the world we wish to live in, we need to nurture and celebrate creative intelligence, while sharing perspectives and solutions from real-life-lived experience as well as from proven, tested research. At Designerd we are committed to creating environments of creativity, respect, truth, openness and collaboration in all aspects of our work. To uphold these values and promote the advancement of knowledge we have established the following policy: Creative Empowerment and Community upliftment Policy (Respect for Data, Creative Work and Open Design).

Creative Empowerment and Community upliftment Policy

MEDIUM ARTICLES BY DESIGNERD

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Imagineering the Education System. 

Imagine a world without school as we know it. School the institution creating a production line of employees. As system which asks you to…

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Cooperative vs Competitive Economic Models

Why is there poverty in a society that can obviously produce wealth?

Did you know that the monopoly game we play today, isn’t used as intended? 

 
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Logo for DX: School of Thought

Our non-profit arm, XEDRI, runs School of Thought amongst other programmes. Research programmes running since 2019. In these past few years between 8 students and 1 coach, we have completed 81 briefs across 47 design skillsets, for 12 different brands. 

 
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RSS Stories by Chesway Theway on Medium
  • The Art of the Interview Brief: How to Land Your Dream Job March 10, 2024
    The Art of the Interview Brief:How to Land Your Dream Job(2024 edition)………Gotcha! Made you look….Welcome to 2024, the theatre of professional advancement… where hackathons, multi-stage interviews with psychometric, IQ tests and interview briefs rule. Presenting the latest corporate magic trick:Channel the creative spirit and exploit into free labour. — — Tadaa… enter the interview brief!What is a girl to do, […]
  • Essential Insights for Women in Male-Dominated Spaces December 25, 2023
    Image source: Human and Dall-e (loosely based on the author’s digital illustration style) — disclaimer: article written by human authorSurviving CorporateAre you tired of being overlooked in a male-dominated work environment? Ever felt muted in meetings or seen your ideas echoed by male colleagues to greater acclaim? Looking back on 2023, I’ve learnt valuable lessons from both my […]
  • The Dark side of the Digital Economy-Plight of the Platform Worker — The independent contractor lie April 20, 2023
    The Dark side of the Digital Economy-Plight of the Platform Worker — The independent contractor lieContractor experience gone wrong through authoritarian algorithmic digital management in this absurd neoliberal worldIf you’re unaware of some of the business models of current delivery or lift apps, and how these companies make their money: Bolt business model: offers franchising services, e-scooter […]

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