Designing for Dignity:
A Convening of Possibilities
Reference Room Materials
March 3-5, 2023
at the MCA Chicago
To accompany Designing for Dignity: A Convening of Possibilities, Deem will organize a three-day Reference Room, located at the MCA Chicago, which will serve as a public gathering space for people to experience some of the reading materials that have inspired its four issues, as well as the content of the convening’s programming. These books, articles, and essays represent a combination of our research, specific mentions from our pages, and recommendations from contributors and symposium participants. It is our hope not only to provide context and access to educational tools around Deem’s processes and beliefs, but also to create a haven for reflection and repose. The Reference Room will be open from March 3-5, 10AM-5PM.
List of Titles:
A Sourcebook of Performance Labor: Activators, Activists, Archives, All / Joey Orr. 2022
A Tale of Today: Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi / edited by Kekeli Sumah, Anna M. Musci, Romi Crawford and Shannon R. Stratton. 2020
A Tale of Today: Yinka Shonibare CBE / Richard P. Townsend. 2019
An Accessible ADHD Guide for / by Artists / Cedric Tai. 2020 *included in our digital archives binder*
Architecture Acts with Theaster Gates / edited by Lynn Tomaszewski and Jeremy Ohmes. 2016
Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons / edited by Therese Quinn, John Ploof, and Lisa Hochtritt. 2012
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer. 2013
Bridge Volume 20 Issue 1 / edited by Michael Workman. 2019
Bridge Volume 21 Issue 1 / edited by Michael Workman. 2021
Chicago Works: Amanda Williams / edited by Grace Deveney. 2017
Chicago Works: Faheem Majeed / edited by Steven L. Bridges. 2015
Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon / Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alison Cuddy. 2019
Creative Grounds / Borderless Studio. 2021
David Hartt: the Histories / edited by Cole Akers. 2022
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir / Akwaeke Emezi. 2021
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need / Sasha Costanza-Chock. 2020
Design Struggles : Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives / Claudia Mareis and Nina Paim (eds.) ; contributions by Danah Abdulla. 2021
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds / adrienne marie brown. 2017
Experimental Geography / Nato Thompson with Jeffrey Kastner and Trevor Pagle and Matthew Coolidge. 2008
Freedom Dreams / Robin D.G. Kelley. 2002
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side / E. Ewing. 2018
Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces / Linda Goode Bryant, edited by Thomas J. Lax and Lilia Rocio Taboada. 2022
Lubaina Himid / edited by Michael Wellen. 2021
Our Bodies, Ourselves / edited by Boston Women's Health Book Collective. 1970
Our Work is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance / Syan Rose. 2021
Out of place: Artists, Pedagogy, and Purpose / Tim Doud & Zoë Charlton (eds.) 2021
Patterned Justice: Design Languages for a Just Pittsburgh / edited by Toni L. Griffin, Luau Greenberg and Laier-Rayshon Smith. 2020
Publics Issue 49 / Harvard Design Magazine. 2021
Race and modern architecture: a Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present / edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, Mabel O. Wilson. 2020
Radical Architecture of the Future / Beatrice Galilee. 2021
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America / edited by Sean Anderson and Mabel O. Wilson. 2021
Sum of us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together / Heather McGhee. 2021
Support Networks: Chicago Social Practice History Series / edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Kate Zeller. 2014
Textured Teaching: a Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices / Lorena Escoto Germán. 2021
The Architecture of Reciprocity / Pavla Melková and Miroslav Cikán. 2020
The Arsenal of Exclusion and Inclusion / Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, Georgeen Theodore, Riley Gold. 2021
The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection / Anne H. Berry, Kareem Collie, Penina Acayo Laker, Lesley-Ann Noel, Jennifer Rittner, Kelly Walters. 2022
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America / Richard Rothstein. 2017
The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds / edited by Hans Belting, Andrea Buddensieg, and Peter Weibel. 2013
The Just City Dialogues: Disruptive Design / edited by Toni L. Griffin, Willona Sloan, Emily Duma, Kyle Miller and Sarah Smyth. 2019
The Just City Essays: 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity / edited by Toni L. Griffin, Ariella Cohen and David Maddox. 2015
Urban Disobedience: 99 Provocations to Disrupt Injustice in St. Louis / edited by Toni L. Griffin and Zachary Weimer. 2020
Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration / Isabel Wilkerson. 2010
Who is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago / Blair Kamin, photographs by Lee Bey. 2022
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination / Adom Getachew. 2019
Digital Archives Table of Contents
Evee Shockley, “On Seeing and Reading the ‘Nothing’: Poetry and Blackness Visualized” (New Literary History 50 [2019])
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework (1975)
Deepa Iyer, “The Social Change Ecosystem Map” (2018)
Andrew Cole, “Those Obscure Objects of Desire: The Uses and Abuses of Object-Oriented Ontology and Speculative Realism” (Artforum, Summer 2015)
Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, “Learning from Levittown” (1970)
Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” (New Dimensions Vol. 3, 1973)
Anoushka Khandwala, “What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design?” (Eye on Design, 2018)
Danah Abdulla, “Against Performative Positivity” (Futuress, 2021)
David A. Banks, “Same Difference: Creativity has become one of capitalism’s biggest growth sectors and best alibis: On Oli Mould’s Against Creativity” (Real Life, 2018)
Diana Budds, “The Design Collective Taking on Structural Racism in the Industry” (Eye on Design, 2020)
Hella Jongerius & Louise Schouwenberg, “Beyond The New: A Search For Ideals In Design”
Jamie Tyberg, “Unlearning: From Degrowth to Decolonization” (2020)
Una Lee and Dann Toliver, Building Consensual Tech
Ari Melenciano, “Building a Museum 353 Years in the Future” (Distributed Web of Care)
Francis Tseng, “Who Owns the Stars: The Trouble with Urbit” (Distributed Web of Care)
Mindy Seu, “Making Space in Online Archives” (Distributed Web of Care)
Cedric Tai, an Accessible ADHD Guide for / by Artists
Jesse Meadows, “You Are Using the Word ‘Neurodiversity’ Wrong” (Medium, 2021)