The Black Experience in Design

The Black Experience in Design is a collaborative book project that I initiated as an extension of my current work/research as well as in response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. I am the lead editor in a team of six Black design educators. The book proposal, currently in the process of being contracted to Allworth Press, spotlights the teaching practices, research, scholarship, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens. Book chapters in the form of personal essays, visual essays, scholarly articles, interviews, and case studies, including critiques of design process and practices, will include a range of topics including case studies on design practice through an anti-racist and critical lens; Interrogating design thinking methodologies and the white savior complex in the context of power, privilege, patriarchy, and design for social impact; and design fiction as a space of liberation, subversion, and protest.