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
Tag Archive: prisons | policing | surveillance
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
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
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
Weston Teruya’s “The gracious city at its neighbor’s edge” at Pro Arts
To be haunted and to write from that location, to take on the condition of what you study, is not a methodology or a consciousness you can simply adopt or adapt as… Continue reading
Teaching Against the Prison Industrial Complex
Introduction By Shana Agid, Michael Bennett, and Kate Drabinski Angela Davis begins her influential book Are Prisons Obsolete? by pointing out how naturalized the system of mass incarceration has become in the United States.… Continue reading
Locked and Loaded: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Response to Hurricane Katrina
Within days of Hurricane Katrina’s historic and devastative landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States, New Orleans already had a new jail. Fashioned from the empty hulk of the bus depot,… Continue reading