Tag Archive: making

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

Exhibition: Artists’ Book Cornucopia IV at Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO [Now Closed]

Call A Wrecking Ball to Make a Window is being shown in Abecedarian Gallery’s Artists’ Books Cornucopia, 2013, the fourth in a series of international exhibitions of contemporary artists’ books. This year’s Cornucopia showcases 50… Continue reading

Exhibition: Trans Technology at Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ [Now Closed]

What I Don’t Say [A Tear-Off Book for Saying It] is included in this exhibition at Rutgers’ Douglass Library Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series TRANS TECHNOLOGY: CIRCUITS OF CULTURE, SELF, BELONGING January… Continue reading

Call a Wrecking Ball to Make a Window

Call a Wrecking Ball to Make a Window is a map-fold book with original text that explores routes taken and spaces made by queer people in New York City from the 1970s through the… Continue reading

World-Making: Working with Theory/Practice in Design

This article argues for an active role for theory in designing, especially feminist theory and cultural studies, both as a means of theorizing design through the work of designers and as a means… Continue reading

“How can we design something to transition people from a system that doesn’t want to let them go?”: Social Design and its Political Contexts

In fall 2010, I taught a course called Urban Services in which my students worked with students in the education program of a large non-profit organization in New York City that offers a range of… Continue reading

Safe Keeping (2011)

  Safe Keeping (2011) is a tear-off book, based on the original interviews conducted for Safe Keeping (2002-3), placed around New York City on the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001. This edition is… Continue reading

It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This (2nd Edition, 2010)

  It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This began in 2004 as an installation and letterpress printed book with original text and images that tell a story of relationship to family history, national pasts,… Continue reading

Flood

  Flood is an ongoing series of prints that, along with Capital Series, interrogate the production and destruction of spaces and the people in them. Flood 1 -3 are digital prints with screenprint and watercolor that… Continue reading