Design + Dance | Designing Fat Liberation

At a Glance
Designing Fat Liberation was the first course that I took at Stanford’s d.school. After taking this class, I now have a better understanding of societal and institutional anti-fat bias, the connection between anti-fatness and anti-blackness, the limits of body positivity, and the intersectionality between fat liberation and the feminist, LGBTQ, and racial justice movements.
As a final project, we were challenged to design a solution to the prompt:
How might we advance Fat Liberation within the Stanford community?
Your task: Build a tool, object or experience to help Stanford community members advance their relationship with Fat Liberation. Your users may include:
Students
Faculty
Staff
Alumni
Because of my dance background, I tried to formulate a solution through dance – an artistic and collaborative medium that is inherently connected to the understanding of the human body.
My Role
Design
Dance
Professors
Nariman Gathers
Megan D’Alessio
Date
late May – early June 2021
2 weeks