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#Living Archives
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“Anthropology Is a Way of Being”
Farah Hallaba on bridging academia and community through participatory research.
#Living Archives
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“Stretching the Meaning of Public Space”
Nadia Mounier on documenting Cairo, gender politics, and the tensions of image-making in a changing Egypt.
#Designing Resistance
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“Democracy in Iran Will Arrive Through Women”
Feminist activist Shirin Ebadi discusses why the women-led protests in Iran may herald the regime change.
#Designing Resistance
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“Anger is my Motto”
Tereza Bettinardi on design publishing, open education, and the micro-politics of daily practice.
#Living Archives
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“Please Say More”
Bec Wonders on the Vancouver Women’s Library, the legacy of feminist archives, and the complex history of female conflict.
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#Feminist Curricula
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“Teach What You Need to Learn”
A conversation about the Swedish Master program critically addressing visual standards and promoting “norm creativity.”
#Vulnerable Observers
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Imaginations of Care
Curator Keyna Eleison making a case for expanding knowledges.
#Politics of Display
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The Interlocality of Typography
A conversation with Yu Jiwon about the suggestions of typographic diversity in society and culture.
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#Politics of Display
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Design Without Design
Reflections from a transdisciplinary workshop for exhibition making and unmaking at the heart of the Dhaka Art Summit.
#Feminist Curricula
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Learning from the Vernacular
A conversation with Clara Balaguer on the copyother, ethical piracy, and trolling graphic design.
#Living Archives
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Queer Dreams of an A.I.
A conversation with Lucas LaRochelle on counter-mapping, artificial intelligence, and queer relationality.
#Complaint Collective
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Glowing Red Letters
How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form.
#Feminist Curricula
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Disrupting Design with Capital “D”
Designer and educator Ramon Tejada on embracing your own voice, asking uncomfortable questions and making spaces in design education.
#Vulnerable Observers
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Soul Consuming
Researcher and designer Ann Kern talks about the difficulties of 2020, the toll of doing political design projects, and how she learned to say “No.”
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#Vulnerable Observers
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Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way
A conversation with (some members of) Decolonising Design, a group founded in 2016 by eight design researchers, artists, and activists, stemming from the Global South.
#Earthshaking
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A Bridge Between Many Worlds
Industrial designer Iskander Guetta talks about learning from Marrakech, Bangalore, and beyond.
#Feminist Findings
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“Every Book We Do is Special”
Urvashi Butalia on co-founding India’s first feminist press.
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