Deem’s first-ever Symposium—hosted in partnership with the MCA Chicago—will be an in-person and online hybrid event bringing together designers, practitioners, and community members to form dialogues around emergent and liberatory directions within design.
Please join us for a day of presentations and conversations around how design draws on diverse perspectives to create more equitable and inclusive communities and futures through the following themes: Dignity, Pedagogy, Equity, and Place.
To accompany Designing for Dignity: A Convening of Possibilities, Deem will organize a three-day Reference Room, located at the MCA Chicago, which will serve as a public gathering space for people to experience some of the reading materials that have inspired its four issues, as well as the content of the convening’s programming. These books, articles, and essays represent a combination of our research, specific mentions from our pages, and recommendations from contributors and symposium participants. It is our hope not only to provide context and access to educational tools around Deem’s processes and beliefs, but also to create a haven for reflection and repose. The Reference Room will be open from March 3-5, 10AM-5PM.
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LOCATION:
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
DATE/TIME:
Friday, March 3
Reference Room opening
Saturday, March 4
10AM–6PM Conference
7–9PM After party reception
The Commons Club at the Virgin Hotels Chicago
2nd Floor, 203 N Wabash, Chicago, IL 60601
Sunday, March 5
The Reference Room will remain open to visitors through end of day.
SPEAKERS:
Amanda Williams
Germane Barnes
Toni L. Griffin
Ramon Tejada
Annika Hansteen-Izora
Paola Aguirre Serrano
Maya Bird-Murphy
Tonika Lewis Johnson
Otez Gary
PROGRAMMING:
10:30AM Opening Remarks
Madeleine Grynsztejn (Director, MCA)
Nu Goteh + Alice Grandoit-Šutka (Co-founders, Deem)
10:45AM Keynote Presentation
(45 mins including 10 mins for questions)
Amanda Williams on social practice
11:45AM
15 minute break
12 PM Panel Discussion:
1 hour
Paola Aguirre Serrano, Maya Bird-Murphy, and Tonika Lewis Johnson on equitable community design in Chicago, moderated by Otez Gary
1PM
1 hour lunch break
2:15 PM Expansive Practice Presentation:
45 minutes
Ramon Tejada on pedagogy
3 PM Expansive Practice Presentation:
45 minutes
Annika Hansteen-Izora on dignity
3:45PM
30 minute break
4:15 Conversation:
1 hour
Germane Barnes and Toni L. Griffin in conversation on place and the city of Chicago, moderated by Nu Goteh
5:15PM Closing Remarks
Nu Goteh (Deem)