It had to happen eventually — we’re redesigning our website. This is the first in a mini-series of posts that will provide a peek inside our redesign process. Starting at the end: Evaluate and iterate When we launched our current website in 2016, our primary goals were to describe what our co-design process looks […]
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As we write this, cases of COVID-19 are increasing exponentially in many places around the world. In response, organizations, schools, and businesses are closing down their physical offices and urging staff to find ways to work from home to minimize the risk of exposure. Early this week, our team met to reflect on what we’ve […]
Nisa Homes’ event poster for their International Women’s Day event – We Rise by Lifting Each Other. Members of And Also Too wear many hats. Outside of the studio, production manager Zahra Agjee is a visual artist whose work deals with issues of identity, representation, and the self. She is also the founder of The […]
Recently, we submitted HairStory — Rooted: A Firm Foundation for the Future of Black Youth in Ontario’s Systems of Care to the So(cial) Good Design Awards for consideration. Although we believe competitions like these have been instrumental in shining a light on design that is happening in the social impact / social justice space, we […]
A lot has happened since we released the Building Consentful Tech zine in 2017! The zine, which offers up a framework of what consent looks like in digital spaces, has been cited in numerous publications, used as a resource in community programs and trainings around digital safety, and has inspired a prototype of reversible consent. […]
Last fall, we worked with Our Data Bodies to design a facilitation guide for people who want to transform their communities through popular education about our digital data. The Digital Defence Playbook gets people to think about ways tech affects their communities rather than trying to teach people the intricacies of how it works. In […]
One of the struggles I’ve encountered in advocating for consentful tech is the lack of real-world case studies I can point to as examples. So it’s been an exciting journey the last couple months to work with the Design Justice Network (DJN) web team on baking consent into the redesign of the DJN website. […]
This summer we worked with Mimi Onuoha and Diana Nucera (a.k.a. Mother Cyborg) to design “A People’s Guide to AI” — a popular education zine about artificial intelligence. For me, just hearing the words “artificial intelligence” was intimidating, as I knew little about the subject. However, when I heard we would be working with Mimi […]
Taking place in Detroit, the Allied Media Conference (AMC) is an annual gathering of probably the most inspiring humans you will get a chance to meet. The conference brings together people who are using media-based strategies in social movement organizing (technology, design, film, art, music, anything you can think of really!) for four days of […]
Photo from a recent Feathers of Hope: Culture Identity and Belonging advisory meeting, where young people worked on co-designing a graphic novel that will educate other children and youth about their rights. Feathers of Hope is one of several community development initiatives of the Ontario Child Advocate. And Also Too is deeply disappointed by the […]