Lauren Williams (she/they) is a Detroit-based designer who works with visual and interactive media to understand, critique, and reimagine the ways social and economic systems distribute and exercise power over Black life and death.
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Lauren Williams
What Consumes Me
CURRENTLY
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Abolition as Process, Art as Methodology
2023
Facilitation
Object(s)
A Highway is Not a Highway
2023
Facilitation
The Mandorla Letters
2022
Print
for colored girls who feel trapped in white institutions
2022
Writing
Wake Work*
2022
Sculpture
Installation
Print
Troubling Design Pedagogy
2022
Writing
The History of Oppression
2022
Presentation
Illustration
Print
The Liberation Economy
2022
Presentation
Illustration
We Want Safety, Not Surveillance
2022
Print
Bulk Space
2021
Visual Identity
Making Room
2021
Writing
Making Room for Abolition
2021
Installation
Experience
Object(s)
Artifacts from/for a Liberated Detroit
2021
Talk
Pedagogy as Process / Processing Pedagogy
2021
Writing
Print
Black Rage
2021
Print
Behind and Ahead of the Times
2021
Talk
Popular Education Modules
2021
Facilitation
Dark Matters
2021
Facilitation
Art as a Tool for Imagining and Visualizing Abolition
2021
Talk
Imagining the Economic Liberation of People of Color
2021
Talk
Facilitation
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-FUCK-12
2021
Talk
Facilitation
Escaping Erasure
2020
Teaching
Experience
Design as Activism
2020
Talk
Lauren Williams in Conversation with Guadalupe Maravilla
2020
Talk
CITIZENSHIP
2020
Talk
Teaching What to Who
2020
Talk
Mourning Lost Futures
2020
Print
Design, Race and Speculation—from Horror to the Specter of Black Liberation
2020
Talk
Enacting Tribute
2019
Object(s)
Video
civic engagement
Misbehaving to Make Space
2019
Writing
Mythicized Bodies & Myth as Body
2019
Writing
Talk
To Hell with Good Intentions?
2019
Facilitation
Event
The Co-Constitutive Nature of Neoliberalism, Design, and Racism
2019
Writing
Learning Race, Contesting Racism
2019
Talk
Research
Reconstructing Practice
2018
Event
Facilitation
Reflecting on Reconstructing Practice
2018
Writing
Print
La Lucha de los Raíces
2018
Facilitation
Research
Experience
A Borrower's Path
2017
Print
Income Volatility
2017
Presentation
The Antiracist Classroom
2017
Facilitation
Lifting the Weight
2017
Presentation
Mapping Myths
2016
Print

Design as Activism

YEAR

September
2020

INTENTION(S)

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Medium(s)

Talk

THEME(s)

design
organizing

Role(s)

Panelist

FORUM / publication

The State of Black Design

CLIENT or HOST

Texas State University

CREDITS

Terresa Moses, Jordon Moses, Antionette Carroll, Omari Souza

Location

Virtual
Jump to the end of the session's full recording to see the Design as Activism panel.
The State of Black Design was a two-hour virtual discussion, hosted by Texas State University's Communication Design program. The session I participated in, "Design as Activism," invited panelists to reflect on the role of design in protest, particularly in response to the 2020 uprisings after George Floyd's murder.
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