May 20th 2021

Anti-Oppression & Resistance in Design Panel

@ DePaul School of Design Talks

Online

Opening Thursday, May 20th, from 6PM - 7:30PM

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anti-oppression-resistance-in-design-panel-tickets-153365511373
From tribal sovereignty, feminist typography, social homelessness, to Black liberation, designers Yeohyunn Ahn, Aasawari Kulkarni, Lauren Williams, and Neebinnaukzhik Southall will discuss their practice and work as methods of anti-oppression and resistance. Following presentations by each of the panelists, join us for a discussion and Q&A moderated by writer, designer, and educator Anne H. Berry, whose own work focuses on race and representation and on ethnic and racial disparities within the field of graphic design.
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Moderated by Anne H. Berry –writer, designer, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Cleveland State University. Anne’s research focuses on race and representation and on ethnic and racial disparities within the field of graphic design. She is a 2018 Design Incubation Fellow, and she recently published an essay titled “The Black Designer’s Identity” for Recognize, an online design anthology presented by InVision that features essays from Indigenous people and people of color.
Find more: https://www.annehberry.com/
Aaswari Kulkarni is a Graphic Designer, writer, and educator whose work explores the intersection of human behavior and culture with design. Aasawari will be sharing her work on Nari Variable, an experiment in variable font technology designed by a woman of color that has multiple voices, represents choice, expression, and inclusivity, and attempts to answer the question “what would it mean for a typeface to be feminist?”, as a springboard to discuss the broader implications of what it would mean for graphic design to be feminist.
Find more: https://aasawarikulkarni.com/
Lauren Williams (she/her) is a Detroit-based designer, organizer, researcher, and educator. She works with visual and interactive media to understand, critique, and reimagine the ways social and economic systems distribute and exercise power. Lauren will be discussing her practice and work for Black Liberation through the lens of a recent body of work titled “Artifacts from/for a Liberated Detroit” that challenges our conceptions about and experiences of policing and the prison industrial complex in order to ask “What are the artifacts of a world without police and incarceration?” and provoke us to imagine alternative abolitionist realities and futures.
Find more: http://www.williamslaurenm.com/about
Neebinnaukzhik Southall (she/they/he) is a member of the Chippewas of Rama First Nation. Neebinnaukzhik, meaning “Summer Evening” in the Anishinaabe language, is a graphic designer, photographer, writer, and an artist whose work is focused on driving conversations about the importance of representation of Native graphic designers. In this presentation, they will be discussing tribal sovereignty through design, specifically through the lens of Anishinaabe cultural reclamations.
Find more: https://neebin.com/
Yeohyun Ahn is a designer, educator, and researcher, integrating creative coding, digital fabrication, and physical interaction into spatial typography and graphic design. Yeohyun will be discussing her experiences as an “academic stranger” and her work, Social Homlessness on US Campuses, towards creating awareness of the isolation, alienation, and marginalization of Asian female faculty in the United States.
Find more: http://yeoahn.com/designandchange/sets/type-code-i-to-v/

 

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