EP 11: Emancipatory Design | Lesley-Ann Noel

Meet Lesley-Ann Noel. She's a Professor of Design and her research practice is guided by an emancipatory philosophy. Lesley introduces design to nontraditional audiences and has presented her work all over the world: Trinidad, Tobago, Jamaica, Brazil, Germany, and France. Originally from Trinidad, she moved to Brazil to study Industrial Design and earned her PhD at North Carolina State University. Bon and Lesley talk about conducting design research during a pandemic, confronting biases through emancipatory design, and the challenges Lesley has faced being a black female designer.