one more time

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hopes and dreams

one of almost 100 cards attached a la candy chang to the demolition site in east baltimore. student's hopes and dreams for the new east baltimore community school (ebcs). you can read the rest of them here.

the social studio is

follow our blogs during the inaugural year: www.micasocialstudio.com

rape is not your fault

Rape Is Not Your Fault from Rape Is Not Your Fault on Vimeo.

it was so exciting to see this project i've been working on with the city's sexual assault response team and the maryland coalition against sexual assault since july come to life in october. last june the baltimore sun prompted an investigation into the huge amount of rapes deemed unfounded by baltimore city police department. this campaign aims to reach out to all of the women who may have been ignored and connect them with the necessary resources and support. for more about the campaign, visit www.rapeisnotyourfault.com.

whitelock community farm

whitelock community farm in reservoir hill just launched a kickstarter campaign! check it out, and if you're feeling generous, donate! they gave me lots of fresh and healthy food in exchange for designing this promotional postcard for them :)

baltimore book festival

the first (of hopefully many) baltimore textbook workshop at the baltimore book festival. thank you to red emma's and the baltimore free school for inviting me!

and so it begins

first day of classes.

mica's new master of art in social design.

real food farm mobile market is real!

coming to a neighborhood near you (coldstream/homestead/montebello, darley park, belair-edison, south clifton park, 4x4, to name a few) full of fresh food! working with real food farm to develop their mobile markets was one of last year's center for design practice projects (http://www.micasocialdesign.com/real-food-farm/). it seems like forever ago that we were at this stage of the design process... so it's awesome to see everything actually come into fruition. and, word on the street, real food farm bumper stickers and totes are out and about as well.

for more about real food farm, go to realfoodfarm.org

one type orgasm after another

unbelievably beautiful work from the master of type design students at the royal academy of arts in den haag - including mica's own, colin m. ford.

dude

i dig this so so much. the dia's inside/out.

school days

even though school's getting out and summer is technically starting, this public school poster struck my fancy...

greetings from the dirty south

i've been in tennessee for the past few days at the children's defense fund ella baker child policy training institute (i know that's a mouthful...) getting ready for something called freedom school this summer in baltimore. the entire thing has been crazy overwhelming and way out of my comfort zone. (which, in theory, was exactly what i had wanted.) still, in the jam packed get up at 6 am get back at 11, and in a sea of 1,000+ other high energy college students, finding me time was necessary. i snuck away during lunch to the knoxville museum of art. i went to see ai wei wei's dropping the urn, and ended also up really enjoying anne wilson's local industry. (a beautiful 75 ft weaving.) but reading this ai wei wei journal entry was perfect timing. to me, it seemed to be justification for everything the week of training is about, in a language i can understand.

we have nothing

once, at a dinner, i made the comment that we live in the era most lacking in creativity, but that comment was made rather hastily. i almost never use the word ‘creativity,’ rather, i am more inclined to use fantasy, suspicion, discovery, subversion, or criticism, words whose accumulated capacity, in my opinion, define creativity. these are the fundamental requirements of the very substance of life. they are indispensable.

creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – and perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act. only through actions can our expectations for change become reality, and only then can our purported creativity build a new foundation, and only then is it possible to draw out human civilization.

closing the open city

all good things must come to an end, and this city has been open for far too long. come to the closing reception, tonight from 7 to 9m to pick up a free copy of our exhibition catalog! (126 pages, full color, essays by the likes of amy franceschini, howell baum, damon rich, doreen bolger, etc.) if you can't make it, but still want one, hit me up.

come one, come all!

for mica's senior commencement exhibition, pretty much every inch of campus is turned into gallery space, and each student gets x amount of space to show their work/thesis. definitely something that would take dedication and an entire day to see...

friday, may 13 through monday, may 16

even more open city

i had been wanting to take the power project prodigies on a little open city field trip before the exhibition closes may 15, so we finally made it out this week. they were quite the group, but it was nice to see how kids interacted with the work and the space. when we managed to pull them away from all the excitement of the sky space telescopes and the "we buy houses" house, we brainstormed a list of the things cities need, and made james rojas inspired models of our ideal open city. i was pleased to see a surplus of parks, lemonade stands, and zip lines.

still love me some bruce mau

from "the secret to making a difference"

the reason why i haven't posted anything in over a month

or at least one of them...
senior thesis = done! it feels really good. just have to figure out how to install it.

community arts 101

giving kids disposable cameras and letting them go to town is like community arts 101. but i just developed the photos that the power project kids took of their neighborhood a lesson or so ago, and i am in love with them all.

and this is why i still believe in design

seriously. it's been a long time since i've gotten this excited about something. emily pilloton visited the other day for a lecture and day-long workshop with kids in the masters of art in teaching program and design coalition class here at mica. everything she shared about the work she's doing with 11th graders in bertie county through studio h (still in progress) was so inspiring. everything is nitty gritty and local, without any higher objectives or forced scalability. (designing and building cornhole boards, chicken coops, or a farmers market is not something that would fly in every city.) any generative efforts can happen on their own, as all of the lesson plans are open sourced online. check it out!

the final countdown

three more days until the open city opens! yeah...

super sweet poster above by jordan bernier.