印刷 Insatsu。
The ableism of events.
Coming to you from the Shinagawa Kinko’s where I was prepping for tomorrow and grabbing some backup prints. A lot goes into presenting and facilitating, so shout out to every person that does this on the reg. On their own.
Prep squad.
Dongle!
Clicker!
Room arrangement!
Printouts in case tech goes wrong!
Japanese translations of everything!
Cards!
Audio versions of cards!
Captions!
QR codes!
Figma slides!
Backup PDFs in case something else goes wrong!
Tickets for friends!
Practice!
Practice again!
Getting ready for a workshop is totally exciting but the prep is no joke. It’s also making me really think about the barriers to workshops in general. It’s not about showing up and delivering a solid argument or provocation, it’s about a million different assumptions that go into the experience of that hour.
The actual rehearsing and delivery seem almost secondary.
Question: What would make the experience a little less based in ableism? How can we prep rooms better for diverse participants and facilitators? How can stuff like captioning, sign language, table heights, and space considerations be a part of the set-up? How can we re-imagine the expectations that come with conferences for speakers and facilitators?
Going into two days of a conference to find some answers.
House of Cards.
Speaking of re-imagining, in tomorrow’s workshop, we’ll be using cards to evaluate images. And one set has audio stickers that recite the card content.
Here’s a little sneak peek of that.
There’s something quite nice about bringing in analog tools to help evaluate all the AI things. I took an amazing workshop with the folks at Design Thinking Japan last December who have made the coolest set of cards to help work through AI design issues. But an even more important takeaway was that working together just makes everything better.
Hoping that’s the vibe of the room tomorrow.
And with that, officially sending Disabling AI to print.
