Field Notes on Design Activism: 7

Marc Miller, Pierre Bélanger, Menna Agha and Jess Myers, Melody R. Stein, Azzurra Cox, Karen Kubey, Quilian Riano, Antje Steinmuller, Susannah Drake, Chat Travieso, Billy Fleming, Gabriel Díaz Montemayor, Brett Milligan

Scholars and practitioners share perspectives on the demands for change across the design disciplines. How are designers responding to the wicked problems that define our time — climate crisis, structural racism, unaffordable housing, rapid technological shifts? To the campaigns to decolonize curricula, to make schools and offices more equitable, ethical, and diverse?

The seventh and final installment of a narrative survey in which educators and practitioners share perspectives on the intensifying demands for change across design pedagogy and practice.

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  • Field Notes on Design Activism: 6

    Emanuel Admassu, Janette Kim, Danielle Rivera, Carla Jackson Bell, Neeraj Bhatia, Ana María León, Brent Sturlaugson, Lilian Chee, Marc Neveu, Sharon Haar

  • Field Notes on Design Activism: 5

    Ife Vanable, Alison B. Hirsch, Akel Ismail Kahera, Rossana Hu, Robert Kirkbride, Philip Ursprung, Annmarie Adams, Iman Ansari, Erin E. Moore, Susan Piedmont-Palladino, Zannah Mae Matson

  • Field Notes on Design Activism: 4

    WAI Architecture Think Tank, Hubert Murray, Hugh Campbell, Faiza Moatasim, Frederick Steiner, Sony Devabhaktuni, Diane Jones Allen, Hélène Frichot, Gideon Fink Shapiro, Sonja Dümpelmann, Lori Brown, Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, Federico Garcia Lammers

  • Field Notes on Design Activism: 3

    Gabrielle Esperdy, Naomi Stead and Liz Brogden, Gabriel Cuéllar, Joyce Hwang, David Heymann, Sharon Egretta Sutton, Monxo López, Fadi Masoud and Hanna E. Morris, Johan Pries, CL Bohannon, Rob Holmes, Thaïsa Way

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Field Notes: Pandemic Teaching

Educators from design and art schools around the globe share their perspectives on the challenges posed by the shift to online instruction in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Fishermen at bridge, upstate NY.

Reservoir: Nature, Culture, Infrastructure

The reservoirs of upstate New York exemplify the social compact that undergirds ambitious public infrastructure. This four-part series tells the stories of these engineering feats, all the while exploring the divisions between city and country and wealth and poverty.

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