Organizing Areas & Action Campaigns
Revolutions happen through the claiming of space. We are, once again, at a moment in this country that requires movements to align and amplify our efforts in pursuit of justice.
Last week, more than 2000+ people showed up to do just that by joining the June 3rd National Call, the June 5th Day of Action, and more than 600+ of you completed the DAP Form to let us know how you plan to stay involved with the Design Justice movement through the Design As Protest initiative.
Thank you for having the courage to join this fight. Now, let’s get to work! We have divided our efforts into six organizing areas with corresponding direct actions. Over the next week, we will schedule meetings to both build out our team and initiate more direct actions, so join in.
ORGANIZING AREAS
We seek fellow BIPOC to join us in the following areas of impact:
Direct Action Organizers (1-4 people) to help organize and facilitate the implementation of national actions.
Youth Organizers (2) to coordinate youth designers as they implement strategies on the ground and in their schools.
Storytelling/ Documentation (2-3) to create baseline standards for documentation, media campaign development, and digital storytelling.
Researcher & Data Visualizers (2-3) to work with the team to build out data sets that reveal the design field’s impact on systemic injustices across individual and systemic scales.
“Design field” Organizers (3-4) will include:
University organizers to engage university administration and faculty to push the implementation of design justice demands.
Firm organizers to push agencies toward implementing the design justice demands.
Student organizers to help students leverage their power nationally and push the design justice demands.
Planning + Policy Leaders (2-3) to establish guiding policies to share with local government bodies institutions.
Action Campaigns
Action campaign calls will discuss the following ideas:
Digital Histories and Futures
With a focus on storytelling and visual advocacy, this action call will discuss the creation of social media and digital graphics that help to both contextualize the histories of racial injustice in space as well as a set vision for what a more just and liberating future might entail.
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Paintable/Buildable Data
For this action, data meets the built environment as we conceive design interventions that repurpose existing structures as public canvases to visually highlight police brutality across cities. Projects for this action might involve projection mapping, public installations, infographic murals, and more public art methods.
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Buildable Memorials
This is a collective national action designed to memorialize the people and places taken by white supremacy. Through a coordinated set of predesigned structures and graphics, we aim to place 100 memorials across the country over the Juneteenth weekend.
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Tactical Protest Design
Recognizing that protest is an act of claiming space, how might we deploy design strategies to protect protesters, build community and to support the mission and message of organizers.
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