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Designing for dignity, safety and belonging with Diletta Legowo
The Feeling Designer
51 minutes
4 weeks ago
Designing for dignity, safety and belonging with Diletta Legowo
Designer and facilitator Diletta Legowo joins Jessica Watson to unpack how to design for “home”, the conditions that help people feel safe, dignified and empowered, across multicultural, power-aware collaborations. We explore facilitating yourself first, meeting people where they are, and why naming power and positionality matters. Bonus! Rituals that keep facilitators present (walks, yoga, meditation, retreats), and a provocation for designers to choose creation over consumption.
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References in this episode:
❤️🔥 Nongkrong Festival — Indonesian diaspora, identity, roots & routes
❤️🔥 The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
❤️🔥 Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (capabilities & human freedoms)
❤️🔥 Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities (ten central human capabilities)
❤️🔥 The Systems School / School of System Change — power & systems courses
❤️🔥 Emma Blomkamp / New Know How — co-design resources
❤️🔥 adrienne maree brown — Pleasure Activism
00:00 Welcome, Country acknowledgment, and the arc of the episode
02:00 The wiggly path: from fine art to social innovation
09:00 Home as a design lens: freedom, dignity, and outcomes
15:00 Making co-design culturally safe: meet people where they are and facilitate thyself
21:00 Joy, suffering, and the inner work that ripples through systems
26:00 Challenging the industry: hustle, Western defaults, and owning positionality
31:00 Designing for emergence: practical tactics and the power of cross-silo connection
40:00 What makes workshops work: start with deep understanding
41:00 Rituals, embodiment, and resilience: how she sustains her practice
45:30 Whole selves and authentic safety: beyond token gestures
48:30 Designers’ responsibility, creation over consumption, and a compassionate call-in
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