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Life-Centered Design: Beyond anthropocentrism and white supremacy in design
November 17, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST
In response to a confluence of challenges – a global pandemic; increasing economic disparities; systemic racism and social inequity; rising political division, nationalism and authoritarianism; climate crisis; and war – designers are increasingly questioning their role and responsibility in the world. At the center of this critique is a fundamental reappraisal of a predominantly anthropocentric and white supremacist paradigms of design, both legacies of exclusion and oppression that valorize some lives over others. Join the Ecological Design Collective, a Baltimore-based community for radical ecological imagination and collaborative practice, for an evening to explore the emergent discourse around “life-centered design” – a design movement that values and uplifts the diversity of all life and seeks to acknowledge, challenge and reimagine systems and design practices that uphold persistent inequity and injustice, both between people and between people and the natural world.
The evening includes a curated panel presentation and discussion (6:00-7:00pm – also live streamed) as well as an open house (5:00-8:00pm) with EDC curators, members, students, and community partners, to learn more about the Collective, our current and past activities and projects, and how to get involved! Come hear from our panel of EDC curators, including social designer Lee Davis of the MICA Center for Social Design, architect Cristina Murphy of Morgan State University, environmental justice activist Shashawnda Campbell of the South Baltimore Community Land Trust, anthropologists Anand Pandian and Nicole Labruto of Johns Hopkins University, and more.
This event will be held in-person but the panel presentation/discussion will also be recorded and live-streamed here on the Ecological Design Collective site to allow for wider participation and access. Create an account and sign in to join us on November 17th! Look for the “Join Fullscreen” button which will appear on this page when the event begins, to join us online.
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Really excited for this conversation. And most especially for the chance to put up the EDC pop-up dome inside a gorgeous old building at MICA, it’s been many months since we had a dome-raising!
Also, for those looking for the link to join the event online, the video link will be on the event page itself. You’ll see a “Join Fullscreen” button on the event post at the time that it begins, just click on that to join.
Folks who are joining us online, here’s one technical tip. To see the slides during the presentations, in order to activate them, you will have to press the “Restore Presentation” button on the bottom right. The icon looks like a screen on an easel, right next to the hand icon.
Folks joining us online, we are getting started at 6:15 sharp thank you!