Hosted by Mark Bergin - Founder at Design Exec Club & BETTER FUTURE
Guests:
William Knight - Director at The Renew Consultancy / Co-founder at Design Dialogue / European Associate at BETTER FUTURE
Loïc Sattler - Experience Design Director, Germany at Futurice
David Constantine - Founder & Director at Motivation Charitable Trust at IBM
Katy Ghahremani - Partner at Make Architects
Resources:
What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru - Tom Simonite, Wired Magazine, August 6th 2021
Harry West Better Future Spotlight - Design Exec Club, March 5th 2021
Gillian Armstrong: I used to think, 'I did it, why can't all the other women?' - James Robert Douglas, The Guardian, August 30th, 2016 - "There won’t be equality until there are as many mediocre women directors as there are mediocre men" - Gillian Armstrong
Quotes:
Will:
As an industry, we do not really talk about equity (0:58:35)
Loïc:
Equity is so closely associated with diversity, inclusion and accessibility (0:13:16)
David:
The “tradesman’s entrance” still exists (0:29:10)
Katy:
Until we are a diverse and equitable industry, we are not going to truly create diverse and equitable design solution (0:56:17)
Mark:
Equity starts at a community level... if we wait for governments to establish equity, we will see no advancement (0:39:06)
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