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Deem Symposium: What Does It Mean to Design for Dignity? (2024)
“What does it mean to design for dignity?”
This spring at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, we asked the presenters of Deem’s second symposium what it means to design for dignity. Here’s what they shared with us.
We invite you to listen, reflect, and think on this question with us. What does it mean to you to design for dignity? Let us know in the comments section.
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Video shot and edited by Brian Crawford
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A Magic Show: Imagining Possibilities with Nicole Cardoza
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Nicole Cardoza (she/her) is a magician and storyteller. As a performer, Nicole shares her perspective on stage magic, the history and future of Black magicians, and encourages us to find the magic inherent in us all. She’s collaborated with brands including Google, Patreon, and Soho House. She’s toured the country and performed at universities, exclusive venues, for corporations and private eve...
Presentation: Gaming for the Future with Ami Mehta
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How can video games inspire positive change in a world facing uncertain futures? Creative technologist, artist, and educator Ami Mehta explores how game design, storytelling, and social impact can intersect to address issues across representation, climate change, cultural preservation, and community collaboration. Timestamps: Introduction 00:06 Presentation 01:30 This spring, Deem presents its ...
Conversation: Healing Modalities with Rachel Cargle, Andrea Yarbrough, Jezz Chung, Marguerite Wynter
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Writer, entrepreneur, and philanthropic innovator Rachel Cargle, multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator Andrea Yarbrough, and multidisciplinary artist and author Jezz Chung speak on designing for and through healing, and the vital modalities of restoration and transformation, with moderation from curator and arts administrator Marguerite Wynter. Timestamps: Panelist Introductions 00:00...
Endnote: Decolonizing Design with Dr. Dori Tunstall
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In her talk, “Decolonizing Design: Designing for Liberatory Joy,” Dr. Dori Tunstall closes the day by addressing two aspects of decolonizing design: putting Indigenous first and dismantling the racist bias in the European modernist project in design. Timestamps: Introduction 00:00 Endnote 01:36 This spring, Deem presents its second live symposium: Designing for Dignity 02: A Convening of Possib...
Presentation: Interdisciplinarity & Community Building with Ciera Alyse McKissick
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Independent curator, gallerist, and space-shifter Ciera Alyse McKissick shares how she has built platforms, connections, and partnerships that center the needs of artists and communities. Expanding on the intersections of interdisciplinary art practices, journalism, and public engagement, she illustrates how her various projects have helped shape the ways that audiences interact with, view, and...
Keynote: Designing Rest as a Practice with Tricia Hersey
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Tricia Hersey-the visionary founder of The Nap Ministry, an organization that uplifts rest as a form of resistance-shares an immersive daydreaming activation while exploring the power of designing rest as a practice of love, liberation, and community care. Timestamps: Opening Remarks from Daniel Atkinson 00:15 Opening Remarks from Nu Goteh 02:43 Keynote Speaker Introduction 08:23 Keynote with T...
Conversation: Ontologies of Beauty with Norman Teague, Cheryl S. Durst and Marquise Stillwell
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Artist and designer Norman Teague and International Interior Design Association Executive Vice President and CEO Cheryl S. Durst exchange ideas around ontologies of beauty within the design industry, and how to build practical and theoretical frameworks for more liberated aesthetic languages. This intimate conversation to kickoff our program is moderated by Deem cofounder Marquise Stillwell and...
Deem Symposium: What Does It Mean to Design for Dignity? (2023)
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“What does it mean to design for dignity?” Last month at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago we asked the presenters of Deem’s inaugural symposium what it means to design for dignity. Here’s what they shared with us. We invite you to listen, reflect, and think on this question with us. What does it mean to you to design for dignity? Let us know in the comments section. Learn more at deemjournal....
Deem Symposium: Designing for Dignity
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Deem’s first-ever Symposium was an in-person and online hybrid event bringing together designers, practitioners, and community members to form dialogues around emergent and liberatory directions within design. Hosted in partnership with the MCA (@mcachicago), the Symposium explored how design can draw on diverse perspectives to create more equitable and inclusive communities and futures through...
Deem Symposium: Amanda Williams on Social Practice
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Architect and artist Amanda Williams, whose practice employs color theory to probe anti-Black racism, begins the Symposium with an exploration of the notion of design as a social practice. Amanda Williams is an acclaimed Chicago-based visual artist whose work investigates color, race, and space in the city while blurring the conventional line between art and architecture. Deem Journal’s inaugur...
Deem Symposium: Ramon Tejada on Pedagogy
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Focusing on pedagogy, designer and educator Ramon Tejada will speak from his hybrid design/teaching practice which centers collaboration, inclusion, unearthing, and the responsible expansion of design, a practice he has named “puncturing.” Ramon Tejada is a (New Yorkino/American) designer (as Estudio Ramon) and an Assistant Professor in the Graphic Design Department at The Rhode Island School o...
Deem Symposium: Panel Discussion on Equitable Community Design in Chicago
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Otez Gary moderates a conversation on equitable community design in Chicago with Paola Aguirre Serrano, Maya Bird-Murphy, and Tonika Lewis Johnson. Paola Aguirre Serrano is a native of the Mexico-US region, urban designer, and partner at the Chicago/San Antonio-based design and research practice BORDERLESS. Maya Bird-Murphy is an architectural designer, educator, and the founder of Mobile Maker...
Deem Symposium: Annika Hansteen-Izora on Dignity
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Deem Symposium: Annika Hansteen-Izora on Dignity
Deem Symposium: Toni L. Griffin and Germane Barnes in Conversation on Place
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Deem Symposium: Toni L. Griffin and Germane Barnes in Conversation on Place
A Guided Meditation with Mia Birdsong
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A Guided Meditation with Mia Birdsong

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  • @waldenlake9818
    @waldenlake9818 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was such a fabulous conversation! And the new journal is a wonderful contribution to design culture. Kudos!

  • @kurtroembke9802
    @kurtroembke9802 ปีที่แล้ว

    "What does it mean to have your personhood be verified by an algorithm." This hits so hard.