How graphic designers can run a 'radically expansive', unequivocally feminist organisation

I see it as a duty of designers to work towards dismantling systems based on unbalanced power dynamics. It's therefore also important to be conscious of how those same power dynamics might influence your work. The B-Corp movement is a great example of practising that consciousness.

This case study gripped me because it looks at what can happen when a design collective’s first priority is the way they organise.

(The Women’s Center for Creative Work) advocates for a radically expansive understanding of both feminism and creative practice, collectivity and ownership. Anchoring that radical, idealistic mission is a real, concrete dedication to and understanding of that less-glamorous side of grassroots organizing: systems, processes, planning and logistics.

Organisational structures and hierarchies, the distribution of power and the recognition given to certain kinds of labour all shape the way we work. In the context of ‘innovation’ – of businesses, organisations and groups making and doing in novel ways – this article is a great place to start thinking about how the way a group organises supports a particular kind of making and doing.