On Wednesday 2/3, 10am EST, please join us for a lecture by Somnath Bhatt called “કામ કામ ને કામ (On work).” Link is available at spring2021-seminar.designforthe.net.
Somnath Bhatt is an artist and designer living in-between India and USA. Seeking the new in the old, and the old in the new is his favorite form of making.
On January 27, 2021, the Rutgers Design Lecture Series, Spring 2021, kicked off with McKenzie Wark, who introduced “The Cis Gaze (and its others).”
For upcoming talks, please visit spring2021-seminar.designforthe.net.
McKenzie Wark is the author, among other things, of Capital is Dead (Verso Books), Sensoria (Verso Books), Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotexte) and various other things. Her next book is Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker, to be published by Duke University Press in fall 2021. She is currently editing a special issue of eflux journal on trans | fem | aesthetics, to be published in Spring 2021. She was awarded the Thoma Prize for digital art writing in 2019. She is professor of culture and media at Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate liberal arts division of The New School, in New York City.
Drawdown Dialogues (drawdowndialogues.com) is a conversation series between five climate leaders and 14 student designers from Rutgers Design Practicum. Drawdown is a critical turning point for life on earth. This is that moment in the future when greenhouse gases begin to decline. It indicates the reversion of climate change and global warming. Project Drawdown is a solutions-based climate organization whose mission is to understand nature’s means of rebalancing the climate system.
Interviews and Graphics by:
Alexa Reyes, Anna Pittas, Cathryn Esposito, Derek Li, Marinelle Manansala, Nick Plyler, Pauline Yanes, Sarah Poon, Sebastian Lijo, Steve Tomori, Xinyi Huang, Yogini Borgaonkar, Yuchao Wang, Zhongxuan Lin
Web Design and Development by:
Pauline Yanes, Alexa Reyes, Yogini Borgaonkar
This collaboration was facilitated by Joanne Cheung of IDEO and Professor Mindy Seu.
14 students in Design Practicum and Internet Archive have collaborated to create a limited edition series of risograph posters. Each person in the course Design Practicum gathered unique collections on the Internet Archive and then adapted their findings into an 11×17 graphic. These were printed on a risograph by the Brooklyn-based studio TXT Books. The first 50 people to sign up on the Internet Archive site received a packet of these tabloid-sized posters.
You can see all prints and descriptions on the Internet Archive’s website by:
Alexa Reyes, Anna Pittas, Cathryn Esposito, Derek Li, Marinelle Manansala, Nicholas Plyler, Pauline Yanes, Sarah Poon, Sebastian Lijo, Steve Tomori, Xinyi Huang, Yogini Borgaonkar, Yuchao Wang, Zhongxuan Lin
This project was facilitated by Amir Esfahani, Director of Special Art Projects at the Internet Archive, Professor Mindy Seu, and Kurt Woerpel, co-founder of TXT Books.
Thursday, November 19, 2020 — 6:00 pm
In quantum physics, the term entanglement refers to the phenomenon of multiple simultaneous elements that are deeply intertwined and only truly known in relation to each other. “Entangled” expresses the interdependent scientific, social and environmental issues that define the current moment and how they are leading to enormous complexity, change, and crisis. Designers will give short presentations exploring how their work considers the interconnection and interaction of multiple realities, in projects that address ecology, technology, and social justice. A panel discussion with Q&A will follow.
Image credit: Floating Archives, Jacob Rivkin, floating projected animation, September 2018.