JOIN US FOR THE DESIGN GYM FALL SEMESTER KICKOFF!!
It's that time of year again...
We’re excited to welcome you to the Design Gym Fall Semester Kickoff on Tuesday, September 17th from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Join us for an evening of delicious food, engaging activities, the rejoining of friends, and meeting our fall semester course instructors. Registration for classes is now open!
Our mission is to partner with communities, artists, and social justice practitioners–you!–to imagine, demonstrate, and collectively rebuild places to be more just and vibrant. This season, we are hosting “The Rez and The Hood” Speaker Series, which celebrates local practices of Black and Indigenous placekeeping, stewardship, and institution-building. Across four events, panelists from the Commonwealth will reflect upon their lives’ work while attending to broader thematic questions such as: What has happened to us spatially? How have we created life-affirming geographies in the midst of settler colonial and anti-Black dispossession and displacement? What are our visions for the future?
We're looking forward to introducing you to all of the ways you can be involved at the Design Gym for the fall semester.
SAVE THE DATE FOR “THE REZ IN THE HOOD” SERIES!
The places we call home have been spatially transformed by settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and other forms of domination; this shapes the conditions of life and death for Black and Indigenous families, communities, and nations in the lands that are commonly referred to as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. And yet, BIPOC political organizers, community members, and tribal citizens have fought against colonial, national, and local policies of dispossession and displacement for the past four centuries—insisting upon their responsibility to remain in place and critically shaping their environments in the process.
“The Rez and The Hood,” ds4si’s Design Gym Fall 2024 Speaker Series, celebrates local practices of Black and Indigenous placekeeping, stewardship, and institution-building. Across four events, panelists from across the Commonwealth will reflect upon their lives’ work while attending to broader thematic questions such as: What has happened to us spatially? How have we created life-affirming geographies in the midst of settler colonial and anti-Black dispossession and displacement? What are our visions for the future?
Registration for the panel series opens soon!
SIGN UP FOR FALL 2024 CLASSES @ THE DESIGN GYM!
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We would like to deeply thank our friends and sponsors for making the Design Gym free and open to all: Barr Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Luce Foundation, Surdna Foundation, and Radical Imagination for Racial Justice (via the partnership with MassArt Foundation and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture) and the City of Boston Cultural Investment Grant.