Individualizing: The Liberatory Design Thinking Project
摘要
This chapter suggests the Liberatory Design Thinking Project, a class project that seeks to create concrete solutions for immediate problems by interviewing people whose lives are affected by the problems. The project was designed with two post-unit thinking goals; (1) to urge students to apply cultural relativism in any context, without the unit thinking of culture—what I call “individualized relativism”—and (2) to avoid using preconceived categories to understand interviewees and fellow student groupmates, instead thinking of them in individualized ways. This project yielded an interesting result with the insight that categories, when used as merely “hinting” at one aspect of an individual, can help deepen the understanding of that individual. This offers an approach for using categories without defaulting to unit thinking. With this focus on individuals seen holistically as having multiple subject positions, one of which is highlighted in a given context, this chapter suggests “individualizing” as a post-unit thinking pedagogy.