Join MIT Press for "Celebrating Unteaching" at the MIT Arts Festival, where MIT Press authors Lisa E. Mercer and Terresa Moses of Racism Untaught will share their expertise in a hands-on workshop & conversation moderated by MIT Professor Catherine D'Ignazio.
Join MIT Press for "Celebrating Unteaching" at the MIT Arts Festival, where MIT Press authors Lisa E. Mercer and Terresa Moses of Racism Untaught will share their expertise in a hands-on workshop & conversation moderated by MIT Professor Catherine D'Ignazio.
Join MIT Press for "Celebrating Unteaching" at the MIT Arts Festival, where MIT Press authors Lisa E. Mercer and Terresa Moses of Racism Untaught will share their expertise in a hands-on workshop & conversation moderated by MIT Professor Catherine D'Ignazio.
Join MIT Press for "Celebrating Unteaching" at the MIT Arts Festival, where MIT Press authors Lisa E. Mercer and Terresa Moses of Racism Untaught will share their expertise in a hands-on workshop & conversation moderated by MIT Professor Catherine D'Ignazio.
Join MIT Press for "Celebrating Unteaching" at the MIT Arts Festival, where MIT Press authors Lisa E. Mercer and Terresa Moses of Racism Untaught will share their expertise in a hands-on workshop & conversation moderated by MIT Professor Catherine D'Ignazio.
Join MIT Press for "Celebrating Unteaching" at the MIT Arts Festival, where MIT Press authors Lisa E. Mercer and Terresa Moses of Racism Untaught will share their expertise in a hands-on workshop & conversation moderated by MIT Professor Catherine D'Ignazio.
Racism Untaught: Revealing and Unlearning Racialized Design (MIT Press) emerged from the need to foster learning environments that examine racialized design. Anti-racist design interventions can be difficult. Well-intentioned conversations can fuel tensions, activate racialized trauma, and lead to misunderstandings. In Racism Untaught, Mercer and Moses, two veteran educators, provide a step-by-step guide to anti-racist interventions that benefits all participants. Through dozens of successful workshops across the country, Mercer and Moses provide a framework for unlearning racialized design practices while fostering equity, justice, and community building.
At the conversation & workshop, attendees will learn more about the Racism Untaught framework and practice unteaching with the book's accompanying Toolkit.
Terresa Moses is creative director of Blackbird Revolt, director of design justice and associate professor of graphic design at the University of Minnesota, and owner of Black Garnet Books. She created Project Naptural, co-created Racism Untaught and Hatch & Flock, and serves on the board of Black Liberation Lab.
Lisa Elzey Mercer's (she/her/hers) interests include developing and executing design interventions focused on ethics and anti-oppressive design frameworks. She developed Operation Compass, co-created Racism Untaught and Hatch and Flock, and is focused on developing a situated sense of ethics in design as a Ph.D. Student in Design at the University of Edinburgh.
Catherine D'Ignazio is an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also Director of the Data + Feminism Lab which uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial justice, particularly as they relate to space and place. D'Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement. She has run reproductive justice hackathons (like the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon), designed global news recommendation systems, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. With Rahul Bhargava, she built the platform Databasic.io, a suite of tools and activities to introduce newcomers to data science. Her 2020 book from MIT Press, Data Feminism, co-authored with Lauren Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. D'Ignazio's second book, Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action (MIT Press 2024), highlights how mainstream data science can learn a lot from the care and memory work of grassroots feminist activists across the Americas. Her research at the intersection of technology, design & social justice has been published in FAccT, the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Big Data & Society, and the proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI). Her art and design projects have won awards from the Tanne Foundation, Turbulence.org and the Knight Foundation and exhibited at the Venice Biennial and the ICA Boston.
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