
Resources and Extension - Module 2: Connection
Video: Belonging without Othering
💡Click the play button below to start the video – Belonging without Othering: The Story of our Future | Bioneers 2023 by John A. Powell.1
Website: Liberatory Design
Explore the Liberatory Design website on mindsets and modes to design for equity.2
“Liberatory Design is a creative problem-solving approach and practice that centers equity and supports us to design for liberation. It is made up of mindsets and modes. Mindsets invoke stances and values to ground and focus our design practice, and modes provide process guidance for our design practice. Liberatory Design generates self-awareness to liberate designers from habits that perpetuate inequity…”2
Using Cooperative Learning Groups Effectively
Visit the Setting up and facilitating group work: Using cooperative learning groups effectively website from Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching.3

Source: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/
Throughout the website, you will find a cooperative learning guide that includes:
- Powell, J. (2023, April 25). Belonging without othering: The story of our future-Bioneers 2023 [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/aQjRab1Kbto.
- Anaissie, T., Cary, V., Clifford, D., Malarkey, T. & Wise, S. (2021). Liberatory Design. http://www.liberatorydesign.com.
- Brame, C.J. & Biel, R. (2015). Setting up and facilitating group work. https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/setting-up-and-facilitating-group-work-using-cooperative-learning-groups-effectively/.