Lesley-Ann Melanie Noel
Design Education
Lesley-Ann Noel, the author of Design Social Change, is a designer, researcher, and educator who practices design through critical and anti-hegemonic lenses with a focus on equity, social justice, and the experience of those who are often excluded from design research. Dr Lesley-Ann Noel’s research interests are centered around those who would traditionally be excluded from community-led research, design-based learning, and design thinking. She practices primarily in the areas of social innovation, education, and public health. In her research, Lesley-Ann highlights the work of designers outside of Europe and North America and promotes critical awareness by introducing critical theory concepts and vocabulary into the industry. Lesley-Ann has a BA in Industrial Design from the Universidade Federal do Paraná, in Curitiba, Brazil. She also has a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago and earned her PhD in Design from North Carolina State University in 2018. She has been awarded honorary doctorates for service to the field of design by the University of the Arts London (2023) and the Pacific Northwest College of Art (2021). She is an active member of the Design Research Society and a co-editor of ‘The Black Experience in Design’. She is the Dean of Design at OCAD University (Aug 2024). Before OCAD-U, she taught at North Carolina State University, Tulane University, Stanford University, and the University of the West Indies.
Works (24)
Updated: October 21st, 2024 11:45
2024 article
Correction: Improving the Engagement of Underrepresented People in Health Research Through Equity-Centered Design Thinking: Qualitative Study and Process Evaluation for the Development of the Grounding Health Research in Design Toolkit (Preprint)
Bazzano, A. N., Noel, L.-A., Patel, T., Dominique, C. C., Haywood, C., Moore, S., … Davis, P. A. (2024, March 14).
open access via formative.jmir.org (publisher PDF)
Source: ORCID
Added: April 8, 2024
2024 article
Improving the Engagement of Underrepresented People in Health Research Through Equity-Centered Design Thinking: Qualitative Study and Process Evaluation for the Development of the Grounding Health Research in Design Toolkit (vol 7, e43101, 2023)
JMIR FORMATIVE RESEARCH, Vol. 8.
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: April 8, 2024
2024 journal article
Repairing the Harm of Digital Design Using a Trauma-informed Approach
Revista Diseña.
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: March 8, 2024
2023 article
AN EMANCIPATORY RESEARCH PRIMER FOR DESIGNERS
ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO DESIGN RESEARCH, 2 EDITION, pp. 177–188.
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 18, 2023
2023 journal article
Improving the Engagement of Underrepresented People in Health Research Through Equity-Centered Design Thinking: Qualitative Study and Process Evaluation for the Development of the Grounding Health Research in Design Toolkit
JMIR FORMATIVE RESEARCH, 7.
author keywords: health equity; patient participation; health behavior; universal design; human-centered design; COVID-19
TL;DR:
This study aimed to assess the use of equity-centered design thinking (EDT) for engaging community members in research prioritization related to COVID-19 and provided an alternative to traditional top-down models.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: July 3, 2023
2023 journal article
Introduction to Diseña 22: Design, Oppression, and Liberation (2nd issue)
Revista Diseña.
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2023 journal article
Pluriversal Futures for Design Education
SHE JI-THE JOURNAL OF DESIGN ECONOMICS AND INNOVATION, 9(2), 179–196.
author keywords: Pluriverse; Pluriversal design; Ontological design; Relationality; Lived experience; Decolonizing design
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 25, 2024
2023 journal article
Redesigning the field
Arcos Design.
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2023 conference paper
Teaching & Learning Positionality in HCI education: reflecting on our identities as educators and facilitating the discussion in the classroom
Ader, L. G. M., Taylor, J. L., Storni, C., & Noel, L.-A. (2023, April 28). Teaching & Learning Positionality in HCI education: reflecting on our identities as educators and facilitating the discussion in the classroom.
TL;DR:
During this Masterclass, tools and methods that can be used for teaching and learning activities about positionality are presented, facilitating a discussion about the challenges that are common both to T&L and interaction design, such as ethics, privacy, stereotypes and stigmatization.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2022 article
Designing New Futures for Design Education
Noel, L.-A. (2022, July 27). DESIGN AND CULTURE, Vol. 7.
author keywords: future of design education; visual thinking; pluriversality; pan-African design; Global South; twenty-first-century skills
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 6, 2022
2022 journal article
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2022 journal article
Dreaming Outside the Boxes that Hold Me In: Speculation and Design Thinking as Tools for Hope and Liberation against Oppression
JOURNAL OF FUTURES STUDIES, 26(3), 70–82.
author keywords: Design Thinking; Future Scenarios; Critical Pedagogy; Critical Utopian Action Research; Critical Utopian Design Thinking
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 11, 2022
2022 article
Improving the Engagement of Underrepresented People in Health Research Through Equity-Centered Design Thinking: Qualitative Study and Process Evaluation for the Development of the Grounding Health Research in Design Toolkit (Preprint)
Bazzano, A. N., Noel, L.-A., Patel, T., Dominique, C. C., Haywood, C., Moore, S., … Davis, P. A. (2022, September 30).
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2022 journal article
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: November 14, 2022
2022 conference paper
Where do we go from here? Rethinking the design studio after the Covid-19 pandemic
Proceedings of DRS.
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2021 conference paper
Encountering development in social design education
LearnxDesign 2021: Engaging with challenges in design education.
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2021 conference paper
Track 03: Alternative problem framing in design education
LearnxDesign 2021: Engaging with challenges in design education.
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2020 conference paper
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2020 conference paper
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2020 chapter
Developing Thinking Skills in a 4th Grade Design Studio in Trinidad and Tobago
In Stagnancy Issues and Change Initiatives for Global Education in the Digital Age (pp. 15–39).
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: October 13, 2022
2020 conference paper
Envisioning a pluriversal design education
Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers.
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2018 conference paper
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2016 conference paper
Promoting an emancipatory research paradigm in Design Education and Practice
DRS2016: Future-Focused Thinking.
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
2016 conference paper
Using Design Thinking to create a new education paradigm for elementary level children for higher student engagement and success
DRS2016: Future-Focused Thinking.
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2024
Employment
Updated: October 21st, 2024 10:40
2024 - present
OCAD University Toronto, CA
Faculty of Design
2021 - 2024
North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Assistant Professor
College of Design
2019 - 2021
Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Professor of Practice, Associate Director of Design Thinking
The School of Architecture
2018 - 2019
Stanford University Stanford, CA, US
Oceans Design Teaching Fellow
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
Education
Updated: October 21st, 2024 10:46
2015 - 2018
North Carolina State University Raleigh, US
Phd Design
College of Design
2010 - 2013
University of the West Indies Saint Augustine, TT
Masters in Business Administration
Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business
1993 - 1998
Universidade Federal do Paraná Curitiba, BR
Bacharelado em Desenho Industrial
Desenho Industrial
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