{"id":4985,"date":"2021-02-14T23:16:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T23:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2021-11-24T00:11:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T00:11:11","slug":"design-lecture-series-silas-munro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/?p=4985","title":{"rendered":"Design Lecture Series: Silas Munro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Wednesday 2\/17, 10am EST, please join us for a lecture by <a href=\"https:\/\/poly-mode.com\/about\">Silas Munro<\/a> called \u201cBearing Witness: A Designer\u2019s Struggle For Integrity.\u201d Link is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/spring2021-seminar.designforthe.net\">spring2021-seminar.designforthe.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rutgers-S21-Seminar-blog-4-munro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rutgers-S21-Seminar-blog-4-munro-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rutgers-S21-Seminar-blog-4-munro-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rutgers-S21-Seminar-blog-4-munro-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rutgers-S21-Seminar-blog-4-munro-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rutgers-S21-Seminar-blog-4-munro-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rutgers-S21-Seminar-blog-4-munro.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fall of 1962, James Baldwin gave a lecture at Community Church in New York City entitled \u201cThe Artist\u2019s Struggle for Integrity.\u201d The speech was later broadcast via Radio on WBAI. In the talk, Baldwin grapples with defining terms like \u201cartist\u201d or \u201cintegrity.\u201d He concludes that an artist or designer must confront the dilemma that they are \u201cbearing witness helplessly to something which everybody knows, and nobody wants to face.\u201d Munro will explore how his mutable practice as a designer, educator, writer, researcher, historian, poet, surfer, and activist has attempted to create a form of integrity in the face of racism, homophobia, classism, stigma, and other forms of exclusion. This attempt at integration is reflected in his lived experience as a queer biracial man and the experiences of his clients and students. Munro is particularly interested in the often unaddressed post-colonial relationship between design and marginalized communities. His practice sheds light, opens up space, and speculates on new futures for more inclusive design disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 2\/17, 10am EST, please join us for a lecture by Silas Munro called \u201cBearing Witness: A Designer\u2019s Struggle For Integrity.\u201d Link is available at spring2021-seminar.designforthe.net. In the fall of 1962, James Baldwin gave a lecture at Community Church in New York City entitled \u201cThe Artist\u2019s Struggle for Integrity.\u201d The speech was later broadcast &#8230; <a title=\"Design Lecture Series: Silas Munro\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/?p=4985\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Design Lecture Series: Silas Munro<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4988,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions\/4988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}