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.
Tracking the Construct of Canadian Cowboy Culture through 40 years of Eaton’s mail-order catalogues.
On the erasure and exclusion of Black, African and Caribbean culture and traditions in mainstream design spaces (including Nor)
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.
At its root, streetwear is a statement, a very empowering one for Black communities. It’s not always easy for Black people to escape negative labels created by society, and it can form a desire to stray away from expressing your identity or experiences, to avoid standing out.
An artboard filled with Experimental Jetset, MoMa rebrand concepts, immaculate, smoothed, infinite expanses of white and well-proportioned rectangles, housing negative space and art. I’d wanted a project like this for years. Coveted it, even.