Booklyn Calling Podcast – Episode 10
When I first met the folks at Booklyn, a long while ago, I felt like I’d found a home in an artists’ books world – they saw making and looking at artists’ books… Continue reading
Design and Culture Special Issue: Designing Against Infrastructures of Harm
Co-edited with historian Paula Austin, this special issue of Design and Culture brings together scholars, organizers, designers, and artists working across history and design to imagine what it looks like to design against… Continue reading
The Poetic Line – Ama Codjoe at the Guggenheim
I am so excited to have been invited by Ama Codjoe, the 2023 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum, to contribute a broadside for the August series of events, The Poetic Line. I got… Continue reading
How What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine: De-Coupling Design and Punishment – Space and Culture Special Issue, Inside Inside
This article looks at the way questions drive possibilities in design through the lens of contemporary efforts in design to reform policing and incarceration and abolitionist organizing to end them. It asks how… Continue reading
Design in Crisis, Designing Cultures of Care, and Tricky Design – book chapters about design, politics, and abolition
In 2018 and 2020, I had the opportunity to contribute to three books on contemporary issues in design research, practice, and politics: Tricky Design: The Ethics of Things, edited by Tom Fisher and… Continue reading
Things I Might Need – Solo exhibition at Western New York Book Arts, May 13-June 18, 2022
On May 13th, Things I Might Need will open at Western New York Book Arts, in Buffalo, New York. I am so excited to be working with this fantastic space and group of… Continue reading
Ground Rules in Full Bleed
Just as New York went into quarantine in the spring of 2020, a longer excerpted version of the text for my artist’s book, Ground Rules, came out in Full Bleed, a journal of… Continue reading
Decoding Manhattan: Island of Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics features Call A Wrecking Ball to Make a Window
On Friday, I went to the post office to pick up my copy of the really astounding new book Decoding Manhattan: Island of Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics By Antonis Antoniou, and Steven Heller.… Continue reading
‘Dismantle, change, build’: Designing abolition at the intersections of local, large-scale, and imagined infrastructures – Design Studies special issue on Participatory Design, 2018
This article grows from ongoing research and organizing with Critical Resistance (CR) in Oakland, California, which I’ve also shared at the Participatory Design Conference. You can learn more about the work, access organizing… Continue reading
Making and negotiating value: design and collaboration with community led groups (with Elizabeth Chin) – CoDesign, 2019
I’m thrilled to announce that Elizabeth Chin‘s and my article, “Making and negotiating value: design and collaboration with community led groups,” and contribution to an exciting special issue of CoDesign, forthcoming, is available… Continue reading