PRIMER 2020 - Building a Future of Global equity

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Building a Future of Global equity

A consortium of designers, anthropologists, behavioral economists and global health experts led by Sonder Collective, and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, immersed themselves in the lives of some of the most vulnerable populations in the world to orient the field of global health toward a deeper understanding of social and environmental vulnerability. The project, called Pathways, has as its primary goal to create new inputs into the field of global health’s long term thinking by going beyond biomedical or tech-driven solutions. To achieve this, we have used creative design methods, anthropological research and data science to iterate and create artefacts that will help health system actors at all levels speculate on the future of community well-being and design interventions that are more intentionally equitably and future oriented. Co-designing and speculating on potential futures with stakeholders in the field was a fundamental aspect of our project approach, but it was not without challenges.

For our talk we will delve into how we adapted our methods and reflect on some of the assumptions we sometimes make when we approach users, humans, collaborators, or interlocutors. In addition to our in-field considerations, we will discuss how our outputs need to simultaneously help predict micro futures for concrete interventions locally, as well as animate macro discussions at the global level about what a future world could look like and how to responsibly intervene in and participate in creating it. In delivering tools and artifacts at these different levels, we have faced questions such as who gets to imagine and manifest interventions that can support equity? As well as concretely how can we portray the complexity of the daily lived experience at a household and community level while engaging with the more abstract societal, systemic and ideological shifts taking place?

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