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Increasing Black Representation in the Type Community Now
The Society of Typographic Aficionados is holding a Virtual Town Hall on Saturday, July 18th to listen, take advice, and make changes in order to increase Black representation at TypeCon.
See the full announcement for details.
SoTA Virtual Town Hall
Originally posted on SoTA & TypeCon.
A Virtual Town Hall
Saturday, July 18th, 1:00 pm PST / 4:00 pm EST
SOTA is holding a Town Hall because we know and recognize that Black Lives Matter, and we are open and here to listen, take advice, and make changes in order to increase Black representation at TypeCon. Working together, we are in a position to foster a much needed paradigm shift in our community.
We understand the work involved because we set out to improve our processes toward inclusivity several years ago. We were successful then, and we can build upon that success. Along the way, we learned that sustainable change requires constant vigilance and everyone’s participation. Everyone who attends TypeCon is a contributor; we can’t do it alone.
We know we might make mistakes during the process, but this cause is worth the effort. Start the path with us at the Town Hall.
To RSVP and receive the meeting ID and password, email us:
Much of this Town Hall will include SOTA/TypeCon asking you what can be done, changed, and created to improve Black representation. Your voice matters; if there are specific questions you’d like to see addressed or suggestions that should be added to the conversation, please email them by Tuesday, July 14th. The Town Hall will be spent discussing these suggestions and questions.
First Global Action Design Event
Have you noticed the changes seen in people since COVID-19 started?
If you have, you are not alone.
Design Versus COVID-19, featuring Robin Krieglstein of Live Neuron Labs
Have you noticed the changes seen in people since COVID-19 started?
If you have, you are not alone.
Some people who you work with today are not the same people you worked with a month ago. They now have completely new and unfamiliar constraints mentally, physically, emotionally, socially, materially and temporally.
Join us for a global, online Action Design Network event and learn how to better meet the needs of your audience, your team, your loved ones, and yourself in these strange times.
We'll also look at the challenges and opportunities of designing for COVID-19 mitigation behaviors like social distancing.
Our speaker, Robin Krieglstein, is the CEO of Live Neuron Labs, a behavioral consultancy that has been assisting clients in dealing with the COVID-19 crises. He will be sharing insights from their work.
This virtual meetup will include interactive and social components to help you learn and engage. It will also leverage Krieglstein's "Hero Design Framework", a systematic, science-based approach to designing to improve how people feel, think and act.
Register for the event
This will be a free, live event, and we will have limited spots open.
Please follow this link to register and ensure your spot.
About Our Speaker
Robin Krieglstein
Robin has been pioneering the application of science & media techniques to design large-scale positive behavior change programs for over two decades. He has designed dozens of behavior change solutions for leading brands including Amazon, UnderArmour, American Heart Association, LG, Spectrum Health, Kaiser, United Healthcare, Oracle, Walmart, and the American Medical Association. In addition, he was a guest researcher at the Stanford Behavior Design Lab with Dr. BJ Fogg.
About Our Sponsor
Live Neuron Labs
Live Neuron Labs is driven by a life-long mission to dramatically impact society’s grand challenges through targeted large-scale behavior change projects. To maximize our impact, we consult, train, speak, provide learning resources & develop powerful models. They are a team of seasoned veterans with decades at the front-lines of Behavioral Design & Gamification, where emerging science has been applied artfully to large-scale positive behavior change projects. Through our robust tool-set, we efficiently guide you in leveraging diverse science, design & media techniques to maximize positive behavior change on large-scale products, programs & services.
Action Design Network
About Action Design
We sit at the intersection of behavioral economics, design, and psychology for advocacy and positive change. We focus on exposing our members to cutting-edge tools, research, and practitioners in each of these areas so they can apply the latest learning in action design in their respective fields.
Want to learn more about these fields? Check out our resource list.
We explore anything that allows us to make large-scale, positive impact on people's behavior. We discuss the emerging efforts of many industries to improve the behaviors of people through products, services, programs, and policy.
Whether the goal is to help people save more money, get in shape, cut down on electricity usage, or learn a new language, the idea is the same: How can we use research in behavioral economics, psychology, and design to explicitly improve human behaviors, as well as improving overall engagement in any product, service, or program, or policy?
We touch many different subjects: persuasive technology, choice architecture, emotional design, cognitive design, positive psychology, marketing, gameful design, game thinking, copywriting, funnel-optimization, social work, persuasive psychology, behaviorism, cognitive behavioral therapy, and many other related topics.
Our methods include presentations, discussions, screenings, guest speakers, hack-a-thons, and more.
We’re part of the greater Action Design Network, a non-profit organization with groups across the US, Canada, and the UK with over 10,000 members and counting.
Reminder about registration
This will be a free, live event, and we will have limited spots open.
Typecon's Statement: Black Lives Matter
Making decisions that benefit everyone in the SOTA and TypeCon community is of the utmost importance to us. Black Lives Matter challenges us to do more for our Black and marginalized members….
Making decisions that benefit everyone in the SOTA and TypeCon community is of the utmost importance to us. Black Lives Matter challenges us to do more for our Black and marginalized members. We’re examining how our organization can not only stand by our commitment to inclusivity but also use our platform to confront the lack of diversity in our field. As part of these efforts, we’re hosting a town hall discussion in the near future to start this conversation.
Please join us in building a path forward and doing this work together.
Follow TypeCon for updates about the town hall and continued efforts. See original post (TypeCon).
