Description
[Social Practice Program] How do designers and artists leverage the written word for engaging meaningfully with communities in ways that disrupts normal patterns of thought and action? What does it look like to collaborate with others in telling stories, expressing viewpoints, or sharing facts? As visually creative people, what is our role as authors of messages or facilitators of messages alongside others? How might we design processes that allow everyday folks to express themselves through the written [and seen] word? To suss out these answers, we will practice putting our text-based ideas out into public spaces, examine co-design processes, meet with creators of public projects, activists, and non-profits, learn basics of typography and lettering as a means of emotional and rational communication, and look at a range of public projects from street art to exhibition design, from installations to protest design and art.