Made during research visits at university libraries in Texas and California, hubs of the Chicano movement.
Abstracts
What We Talk About When We Talk About Design: A Diachronic Investigation Into the Word ‘Design’
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Radical Characters: Studying Graphic Design and Typography through Chinese Characters (Hanzi)
The relationship between design and culture in the Chinese and Chinese American community
Slowing Production, Increasing Socio-Political Context: Beyond “Spreading Awareness” in the Design Classroom
A feminist base motivates us to engage questions around power relations, knowledge production, and systems of violence
Equitable Design Pedagogy: A Case for Object-Based Learning
The experiential pedagogy of engaging physically with objects through observation and reflection.
Say No to Stigma: Making Mental Health Visible in Rural Ugandan Primary Schools
Developing stakeholder-informed visuals to improve mental health awareness and decrease stigma
Voices Heard: Designing an Oral History Archive
22 cassette taped interviews with Black residents of Pontiac, Michigan from the mid-1970s
Designing with Power: Drawing Parallels Between Design Pedagogy and Writing Workshops
Graphic design has become affiliated with practices far afield from aesthetic foundations
An Argument for Including the Banal in Design Histories
It is critical to understand how basic design efforts are explicitly world-building
Prototyping Interactive and Exploratory Visualizations for Interdisciplinary Dialogues
The visualization of interdisciplinary dialogues between design faculties and practitioners