Dear Heidi,
Indeed ¨C you highlight a good point ¨C from a UK perspective, sadly we (women and/or carers) seemed to have returned to the era of ¡°moral goodness¡± and forcing women into ¡°dependency¡± again as the inequalities of this pandemic and systemic failures of support for parent/carers (and in particular PGR¡¯s) make it almost impossible to write journal papers, let alone volunteer on a journals; both have become positions of privilege.
When the ratio of women in Design, in the UK, is at 22% compared to 78% white male (and 13% BAME) pre-pandemic, one can only imagine how badly this figures sit post-covid unless there is some urgent attention to the matter of finding solutions that enable pluri-perspective journal editing (volunteering or otherwise) and a design futurity with multiple and non-western perspectives.
For now, I just hope for a day job and to see more activism and inclusion ¨C I remain positive that it starts with conversations like these to build awareness.
Britta
REFs:
https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/news-opinion/does-design-have-diversity-issue
https://linktr.ee/PandemicPGR
From: PhD-Design <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, 29 March 2021 at 18:12
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Give our journals the support they deserve
Dear Gabriele,
Your point might be interpreted as support for a universal basic income, freeing people to do whatever they feel is most important with their time. That would be a situation where everyone gets money, and no one tracks accounting.
Recall that since around 1750 it is mainly men's work that has been considered worthy of pay (and prestige), while women's work like child care is equated with moral goodness (Beecher and Stowe, 1869), and "leisure" (Forty, 1983, 99-100). In the 1800s, the US census considered housewives to be productive workers, but in 1900 re-classified them as "dependents" (Folbre, 1991, 463).
A basic income would not be charity, because some estimates find that costs in paying it would be balanced by savings in health care (Canadian physicians, 2015), plus long term benefits in child education (Bryden, 2021). Recall that child care is not a personal indulgence, but rather the thing that ensures a future supply of workers for industry (Strasser, 1982, 201).
In terms of design scholarship, one might hope for an increase in journal volunteering if people believe design is a worthy cause, and no longer have to hold down a day job to pay the rent.
Heidi
Beecher, C., & Stowe, B.H. (1869). The American Woman's Home. New York NY: J. B. Ford & Co.
Folbre, N. (Spring 1991). The unproductive housewife: Her evolution in nineteenth-century theory. Signs, 16(3), 465-484.
Forty, A. (1986). Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750. London, UK: Thames and Hudson.
Strasser, S. (1982). Never Done: A History of American Housework. New York, NY: Pantheon Books.
Canadian physicians in support of a basic income:
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/bicn/pages/151/attachments/original/1439928444/Ontario_physicians_letter_to_Hon__Eric_Hoskins_(FINAL_August_17_2015).pdf?1439928444
Bryden, J. (13 March, 2021). Liberal MPs. grass roots to push for universal basic income at party convention. CTV News. Liberal MPs, grassroots to push for universal basic income at party convention
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On Sunday, March 28, 2021, 03:40:33 p.m. EDT, Gabriele Ferri <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear Ken,
Your reply is substantial as usual. I'm afraid, however, that you've read too much into my idea, which is more a side-connection (or, perhaps, a wish) rather than a concrete feasible proposal for the short term. I am aware that most journals aren't organized as coops, collectives, or DisCOs. I am saying, instead, that I'm attracted by the idea of an organization where some tasks are pro-bono, some tasks are paid, and there's an accurate accounting that tracks all this and compensates for social inequality. This makes the idea of unpaid, voluntary labor more fair IMO.
But that's just a dot on the horizon to aim for (perhaps), not something that everyone should be doing tomorrow
Cheers
G:
Gabriele Ferri, Ph.D.
Head of program, Master Digital Design
Senior researcher, Civic Interaction Design
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
www.gabrieleferri.com<https://www.gabrieleferri.com<http://www.gabrieleferri.com%3chttps:/www.gabrieleferri.com>>
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From: PhD-Design <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2021 19:05
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Give our journals the support they deserve
Dear Gabriele,
How would the DISCO cooperative model offer any help to academic publishing? None of the current journals is published by a cooperative. Cooperative organisations work on a different model than the model used by any academic publishing firm.
To create a publishing cooperative would require capital investments from the coop members to function. And it would need a revenue stream if it were to pay anyone.
Generating a revenue stream would require sales outside the cooperative. This is the how farmer¡¯s cooperatives generate income. That¡¯s how food cooperatives work, buying food from producers and wholesalers, then selling it to customers including coop members. Utility cooperatives, banking cooperatives, and others generate revenue in some way to reduce the cost of services, pay employees, and function in an ethical manner. To create a cooperative academic publishing firm would likely require sales revenue. To pay anyone would require a revenue stream ¡ª this, in turn, means creating a journal that could compete effectively with current journals.
Compare this with such successful new publishing models as Open Humanities Press. They succeed because they are all volunteer operations. Open Book Publishers offers a slightly different model, with a combination of funding sources, but only for books, not journals.
Another model requires fees from members. This is the case in housing cooperatives, where members buy a unit and then pay annual fees to support the costs of financing and managing the cooperative. To apply this to journal publishing would mean that many members of the cooperative would actually pay to work on the journal, rather than simply volunteering.
There may be new ways to undertake academic publishing, but it requires careful thought and planning. I can¡¯t see how the DISCO model offers a way forward.
The organisations that publish excellent journals today are not cooperatives, and they are not likely to change their business model. For-profit journal publishers such as Taylor and Francis (Design and Culture) aren¡¯t going to shift to not-for-profit coops, and non-profit publishers such as The MIT Press (Design Issues) or the University of Cincinnati (Visible Language) aren¡¯t going to hand their journals over to a coop when the journals already work perfectly well.
My point in posting yesterday is that there are excellent journals at work today. They¡¯ve survived and managed to succeed. The best journals in our field have established an extraordinary record of long-term accomplishment.
If we wish these journals to continue, we¡¯ve got to respect the fact that they function now ¡ª they all depend on unpaid, volunteer labor, and this is not likely to change.
If someone can create a new model for academic publishing that pays the people who work now as volunteers, it will be worth considering. Until such a model exists, I repeat my earlier comment:
If we want journals, we must give our journals the support they deserve. If we want excellent journals such as Design and Culture to flourish, we¡¯ve all got to pitch in. Remuneration is not the point. Building the field is the point.
Yours,
Ken
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