The overarching goal of this project is to collectively develop content for an interactive publication titled Challenging Patterns of Supremacy and to disseminate the publication through a series of participatory workshops with communities of Black, Indigenous, and Person of Color (BIPOC) youth across the country. This goal will be achieved through the following objectives:

Objective 1. Book co-design. In collaboration with members of Dark Matter University (DMU), a nonprofit organization focused on anti-racism in design, we will use participatory methods of content co-authorship. We will co-design interactive design and reflection exercises aimed at addressing institutional racism, which will be included in the book. 

Objective 2. Book publication and distribution. We will partner with publisher MAS Context to print and distribute the book to student groups around the country. MAS Context is a nonprofit dedicated to public education around design and social and environmental issues. 

Objective 3. Participatory workshops. A small core group of DMU and CU faculty will visit BIPOC youth and student groups to facilitate participatory anti-racist design thinking exercises embedded in the book. These workshops will be aimed at discovering and imagining just alternatives to institutional racism.

Objective 4. Impact evaluation. Finally, we will work with student research assistants to evaluate the efficacy and utility of the book production and usage for BIPOC youth advocacy groups.

• Book co-design

  Additional Info

  In this stage we work with a larger collective of BIPOC designers to collect and design the content of the book, including exercises.

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  Location

  Dates

  Ongoing

  Public or Private

  Private Program (by request only or for a specific audience or group)

  Program Fee

  No charge to attend/participate in activity or program

• Book dissemination

  Additional Info

  In this activity, we conduct workshops based on exercises in the book with student groups at design programs around the country.

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  Location

  outside colorado

  Dates

  Ongoing

  Public or Private

  Public Program (open to the public)

  Program Fee

  No charge to attend/participate in activity or program