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Education • Issue 019
Enhancing Learning Spaces with Environmental Graphics
Creating Memorable Spaces that Reflect the Community
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Community • Issue 018
Plato’s Cage
Power is the ability to define reality and have others respond to it as if it is their own. – Dr. Wade Nobles
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Community • Issue 018
How Can I Help?
Shanti and Stephanie discuss mutual aid's historical and current purpose: to support communities when other systems fail.
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Community • Issue 018
Design Activism
On February 9, 2021, Niki Franco moderated a conversation with Ivy Climacosa, Dustin Gibson, Annika Hansteen-Izora, and Liz Ogbu around the new protest movements that have arisen in reaction to the ongoing scourge of police brutality in the United States. As designers and activists, the participants were invited to talk about their own creative practices, including, according to Franco, “The relationship between artists, designers, and folks on the ground.” Together, the group addressed the various crises people of color experience in this country, including, “the spatial dynamics that contribute to racism, classism, anti-homelessness, ableism,” and more.
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Community • Issue 018
Abolish the Cop Inside Your (Designer’s) Head
American policing has always faced crises: of legitimacy, of efficacy, of budgeting, of racist discrimination, and of heinous violence. Over the last year, radical calls to defund, disarm, and disband police departments drowned out the historically widely-accepted explanations of these crises. Black women have always led these calls, but in 2020 much of the U.S. public heard them for the first time.
