INDEX
A directory of the places, people, and formats found throughout the activities featured here and beyond.
FORMATS
Academic Research
Craft
Cultural Work
Facilitation
Installation
Movement
Professional Research
Teaching
Writing
Fields
Abolition
Design
Clinical Therapy
Cognitive Science
Art & Culture
Harm Reduction
Higher Education
K12 Education
Library + Info Sciences
Public Health
Tech Startups
CONTEXTS
ASSATA
Child Mind Institute
Design Indaba
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
Lehigh University Libraries
London Design Museum
Monash University
New Museum x NEW INC
PARSE, Platform for Artistic Research Sweden
Pratt Institute
Rhode Island School of Design x Brown University
Services for the UnderServed
Set Margins’
Teleobjects
The New School
WonderLab
SITES
Aarhus, DK
Cape Town, SA
Copenhagen, DK
Helsinki, FI
London, UK
Melbourne, AU
New York City, US
Prato, IT
Providence, US
Roswell, US
Urbana-Champaign, US
CONSTELLATIONS
Abdul Dube (DE)
Abiola Onabule (UK)
Alice Sparkly Kat (US)
Akeema-Zane (US)
AK Wane (FI)
Amy Gelera (FI)
Anushka Jajodia (US)
Ayra Digma (US)
Aysha Amin (DK)
Azar Bagheri (US)
Cathryn Klasto (SE)
Colleen Doyle (US)
Cynthia Voza Lusilu (UK)
Daliah Heller (US)
Emma Nguyen (US)
Enni-Kukka Tuomala (FI)
Freek Lomme (NL)
Heer Mehta (US)
Helena Cleeve (SE)
Hillary Nguyen (US)
Ioana Man (FI)
Jasmine Woodson (US)
Kate McEntee (AU)
Kira-Simon Kennedy (US)
Lea Gründler (DK)
Lillian S. Tong (US)
Lina Patel (AU)
Linda Dounia (SN)
Lisa Grocott (AU)
Meghana Srinivasan (US)
Nicole Lashae Ben (US)
Piniel Demisse (NO)
Rain Embuscado (US)
Ricardo Dutra (FI)
Stacy Holman Jones (AU)
Sumitra Upham (UK)
Tattfoo Tan (US)
Taylor Kuhn (US)
Toni Wagner (NL)
Yasmin Ibrahim (FI)
Yi Zhang (US)
Yinka Fasehun (US)
Zakiya Collier (US)PROJECTS
Selected work showing practical frameworks and tools for supporting designers, artists, educators, and cultural workers in their efforts toward reflection and worldmaking.
DOING CREATIVE WORK FROM YOUR POLITICAL BODY
A guide and process for Practice-led Research
Writing | 2026
CENTRE FOR NORDIC OTHERWISE
An art + design curriculum and network
Cultural Work | 2025CRITICAL CITATION PRACTICE
A series of practical tactics to accompany critical artistic inquiry
Writing | 2023THINKING FORM
A set of working ethics through Black double consciousness
Doctoral Research | 2018–2021
MATTER–MIND STUDIO
A creative studio hinged on understanding emotional well-being
Consulting | 2015–2021
THE LOITERING HOLE
CULTURAL WORK
An online community for respite from the white gaze
Cultural Work | 2020–2021I PAID ATTENTION TO THE FOOTNOTES
An intervention for disrupting the politics of the academic page
Writing | 2020 WRITING ON CARE
Dreamlike writing prompts for design museum residents
Facilitation | 2020
FAMILY OF SENSIBILITIES
A collaborative paper investigating practices centered on material and bodily things
Writing | 2020VESSEL OF WHAT
An online shop of hand-thrown pottery
Craft | 2019 A GUIDE FOR DOING THESIS PROJECTS: FOR DESIGN STUDENTS
A cheat sheet to bring some transparency to thesis expectations in design
Writing | 2019
RESIST SMALLER, RESIST SLOWER
“Make Visible your Day-to-Day Resistance Practice”
Facilitation |
2019
EMBODYING SELF AWARENESS
“We must investigate ourselves; the bodies we live in that contain our worldviews”
Movement | 2019TOOLS FOR RESISTING
Home tour interviews for everyday liberatory coping tools
Facilitation | 2018 DESIGN STRATEGIES STUDIO
A speculative design and social justice course at Pratt Institute
Teaching | 2017
NEW INC COMMUNITY VALUES
“How might we keep our community values tangible and live in the co-working space?"
Installation | 2017
PSYCHOLOGICAL FUTURES
An environmental psychology and speculative design course at Pratt Institute
Teaching | 2015, 2016MATERIAL COMMUNICATIONS
Interdisciplinary research and tools for Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
MFA Thesis |
2012, 2013–2014