Welcome to Nor
A living and open commons of Canadian design
Nor works to make critical discourse accessible to practicing designers, and bring practitioners into conversation with critics and academics. Engage with, make accessible, and explore how design interacts with the concepts and visions driving a sustainable, equitable, and decolonized society.
Over the past 20 years we have collected
About Nor
DOCUMENT,PRESERVE,QUESTION
Nor is a not-for-profit, member run co-op that strives to deconstruct and use archival and curatorial approaches in ways that empower and challenge, rather than extract, itemize, & appropriate.
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Writing
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What deeper meanings are woven into the fibres of the new Canadian passport?
Meming towards purpose in the polycrisis.
Finding remnant possibilities of queer liberation imagined, hoped for, and built, from the material objects of The ArQuives with Craig Jennex, co-author of Out North.
Design culture, the space we’re in, is what happens when we let all of these approaches and ways of thinking and working sit together, and marvel at and learn from the threads between them. And note what’s missing. And do our best to find it. And preserve it, not in amber but in full critical view.
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