Design and Solidarity

800 West Buena Avenue,Chicago IL 60613

10 April, 2023

Description

5:40 pm: Doors Open 6:00 pm: Event Begins 7:30-8pm: Book signing and dance playlist/party Design & Solidarity emerges from conversations led by the book's authors — architect Rafi Segal (MIT) and artist Marisa Morán Jahn (Parsons/The New School) — dialoguing with leading thinkers including social movement leader Ai-jen Poo, who joins Marisa and Rafi in conversation at Haymarket House, along with real estate developer Ernst Valery and anthropologist and architect Iván Arenas, who will moderate. NPHM Executive Director Lisa Yun Lee will open the event with introductory remarks. A book signing/celebration with light refreshments will take place immediately after the event. Parking/Accessibility Please note, a limited number of accessible parking spaces will be available by request. For all others, please be advised, residential parking is limited. We recommend planning for extra time to park. The space is wheelchair accessible and all bathrooms are gender neutral. ASL interpretation to be provided. Please tell us about your accessibility needs when you fill out the registration form. Please contact Mark Jaeschke ([email protected] ) for any additional requests or concerns. Special thank you our sponsors! This event is presented by the National Public Housing Museum in partnership with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, the Social Justice Initiative (SJI) at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Haymarket Books. Marisa Morán Jahn is currently the National Public Housing Museum's 2022 Artist as Instigator in residence. The Artist as Instigator Residency is funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events City Arts Grant, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Illinois Humanities, Landau Family Foundation, Leonard C. Goodman, The Kresge Foundation, The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince, National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more about the National Public Housing Museum at nphm.org. Design & Solidarity (Columbia University Press, 2023) is a book that explores the power of design, art, and architecture in shaping emergent forms of mutualism, fulfilling their promise of solidarity, and ensuring that these values endure. Design & Solidarity is a field guide for rebuilding public life from the bottom up. —Ellen Lupton, Curator Emerita, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City; author of Design Is Storytelling.