Design in Public

We are a Seattle-based organization demonstrating design's relevance in public life. We're collecting resources here to inspire & inform Design For Equity: the 2015 Seattle Design Festival, coming 09/2015. Learn more about us at designinpublic.org.

[betterthanspikes]

Anti - Anti Homeless Spikes

“Living in a city, we bumble along from place to place in tightly martialed lines. We’re told where we can walk, where we can sit, where we are welcome but only if we spend money. Or have it. It makes us neurotic and engenders a deep sense of ‘otherness’ in anyone who chooses to or simply cannot buy in to what currently passes for society and leisure. Anti-homeless spikes are part of that invention, Nothing says "keep out” to a person more than rows of sharpened buttplugs laid out to stop people from enjoying or using public space. Space, Not Spikes came from the anger of public/private space inequity. We chose the Curtain Road location because of its resonance with artists. Round the corner and down the road were the studios and spaces used by artists who couldn’t afford anywhere else to live and work. This particular site is where the nightclub Plastic People used to live. It had a Vietnamese restaurant on top of it that vibrated on weekends.  Now, we have spikes. Now, we’re looking at poor doors and architecture designed to keep them 'right’ people in and the 'wrong’ people out. Regardless of whether you own, rent or even have a home, the streets are ours.“​

[allmalepanels]

Men know everything about disruptive design.

[dipseattle]

HEY! We know you! What gives?! We give you a noogie next time we see you. 

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[revolisyon]

i think its cool that theyre both black

[mentation-deactivated20130724]

My history professor told me there are 300 shades of African skin, I believe him. 

[stankface]

FINALLY!

A fucking pic that doesn’t fetishize albinos!!!! I never thought I’d live to see the day tbh.

[ozyreads-deactivated20130608]

holy shit that is an amazing visual

[areyouahauntedpotato]

Omg what I thought those people were painted

Holy cow is that their real skin human diversity is amazing

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This is gorgeous.

[golden-zephyr-deactivated201401]

From Samuel Slider :

“It’s pretty incredible to think of how diverse humans are, but perhaps one of the ways we’re most diverse is skin color. A picture of Papis Loveday and Shaun Ross, shows that better than most. Shaun Ross is an albino model, who also happens to be African. He has, perhaps, the whitest skin of any human being. Meanwhile, Papis Loveday has what looks to be the darkest skin of any human being. Quite impressive to look at”

Lamutamu.com has a bunch of photos of their photoshoot!!!

[gwenlightened-blog]

I love this.

[dipseattle]

DONATE TO NEPAL EARTHQUAKE FUND

MAP is a 4 Star charity navigator rated organization

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http://www.never21.com/

[foreverthesoniag-deactivated202]

Smh at all the media coverage on #Baltimore ’s resistance , anger , mourning by community members/youth/activist being framed as “looting ” and “violent” and disconnecting it from the injustice Black communities are facing under law enforcement

[dipseattle]

Our hiring practices are inequitable and need to change

Change the philosophy and definition of “qualification”: Qualification should be based on whether a person will do a good job or not in the position. Since we can’t know for sure if they will, we use proxy characteristics, such as formal education, as a predictor of performance. But formal education, as mentioned above, leaves behind a lot of people. Set it in the “Preferred” section if you have to use it. This opens up doors for people who have equivalent working experience.

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Is this venue accessible? An interview with Sean Gray

Explore venue accessibility around the world with this crowdsourced directory.

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Crosscut article discussing how the availability of affordable space for residents and businesses is rearranging neighborhoods.

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Mini Maker Faires are independently produced celebrations of local maker culture. Our Mini Maker Fair program provides tools and resources to help others to make a Maker Fair event that reflects the creativity, spirit and ingenuity of their community.

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Feminist Activism & The Hashtag Problem

This whole article is worth reading. Also wanted to note Lauren Chief Elk’s definition of the non-profit industrial complex as “corporate interests funding social movements as a way to control dissent.”

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Why Is TED Helping Livestream Build Its New Bushwick?

Robin Grearson once again looks at the gentrification of Bushwick, Brooklyn and how TED is assisting a corporate takeover of the neighborhood. It’s important to remember to examine who provides visible platforms for "discussion" and who actually participates and benefits from them:"Anytime you are “elevating conversations to empower the community,” but selecting and filtering those conversations privately, you are inhibiting and disempowering the conversations you do not want to have and communities whose problems you don’t want to talk about."

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Is equity the new coconut water?

In the past couple of years we have seen the meteoric rise in the consumption of coconut water. Cold, refreshing coconut water. Drinking some is like being punched in the mouth by a tropical breeze...