Learning Café: A Community-Engaged Scholarship Series with Ananda M. Marin, PhD.

Join us for our monthly Learning Café series highlighting the community engaged work of our faculty and graduate students. Listen, learn and engage with the work of our school.

Featuring Ananda M. Marin, PhD., Vice Chair of Graduate Education; Associate Professor of Social Research Methodology

In this Learning Café, I narrate my history with a range of efforts from community-based design research projects with Indigenous communities to a co-design project with improvisational performers, highlighting how participatory design research can be a method for worldmaking. Reflecting on more than a decade of work, I address how kinship, place, and relationality shaped my own engagement in community-based research and played a role in designing for individual and collective well-being. In addition, I highlight how designing for equity is deeply connected to practices for questioning and reflecting on the “with whom,” “where,” and “toward what ends” of teaching and learning (Philip, Bang, & Jackson, 2018; Vossoughi, Marin, & Bang, 2024).