Frances Lee is an interdisciplinary UX/UI designer and masters student in Cultural Studies at UW Bothell. They create digital media on QTPOC safety and trans futurity in the Poetic Operations Collaborative. Frances has worked in the Austin/Seattle corporate tech industry and occasionally gives talks on diversity/inclusion from a trans non-binary and post capitalist lens. They are leading the design and development of the 2017 King County Trans Resource Guide, which provides a safety net for trans people and their loved ones in the Seattle area.
Ron Morrison is a designer, artist, and urbanist. Their practice works to create strategies using art and design that help people understand how urban systems work and how to act within their fissures and inconsistencies. From these dissonant spaces we learn to rework and retune systems towards an increased potential for collaboration and action. They believe that people should have full access to shaping their cities and communities and see design as a medium for creating knowledge and moving beyond paralysis in the face of complexity. From building open source platforms to upend the continued practice of solitary confinement to crafting community based archives to combat gentrification, their work investigates cartographies of slow violence, dispossession, embodied data, and blackness. They have been a collaborator with design teams that implemented projects in New Orleans, Ghana, Colombia, Ethiopia, New York, and Venice and have had work featured in AIA New York, the UN World Urban Forum, and the Tribeca Film Festival. They currently teach in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design.
Jen Kagan writes words for humans and computers. She wonders a lot about where the tech left and social movement left(s) overlap–and where they don't. Jen is a recent graduate of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she's a research resident for the 2017-2018 school year.
Type of proposal
Panel
Description
Detroit-based organizer and archivist Paige Watkins has described their work as "laying a conduit across which stories can travel."
We’re thinking about networks in this metaphorical way, as the web of stories and frameworks that shape our understanding of what is possible and desirable. Made material through research practices, we turn to examples from The Negro Motorist Green Book and the U.S. postal service, and open wi-fi networks and packet sniffing tools. By centering these examples, we problematize understandings of networks as neutral and instead stretch our own assumptions making visible their cracks and fissures; uncovering old stories no longer remembered in the hopes of substantiating a future not yet conceived that allows us to survive and upend capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy; relentlessly striving for new ways forward. We hope to use the panel to have a public conversation about our experiences doing this work in different corners of decolonial design, black geographies, and critical technology worlds.
Duration
45 minutes with 15 minutes for questions
Workshop technical requirements and materials list (if applicable)
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Decolonial design, black geographies, and critical packet sniffing
Name : Jen Kagan // Frances Lee // Ron Morrison Location : Brooklyn, NY // Seattle, WA // Brooklyn, NY Email : kaganjd@gmail.com // frances.san.lee@gmail.com // ron@threadcountcreative.com Twitter : GitHub : Url(s) : https://kaganjd.github.io/portfolio // https://hellofranceslee.wordpress.com // http://www.threadcountcreative.com
Speaker Bio
Frances Lee is an interdisciplinary UX/UI designer and masters student in Cultural Studies at UW Bothell. They create digital media on QTPOC safety and trans futurity in the Poetic Operations Collaborative. Frances has worked in the Austin/Seattle corporate tech industry and occasionally gives talks on diversity/inclusion from a trans non-binary and post capitalist lens. They are leading the design and development of the 2017 King County Trans Resource Guide, which provides a safety net for trans people and their loved ones in the Seattle area.
Ron Morrison is a designer, artist, and urbanist. Their practice works to create strategies using art and design that help people understand how urban systems work and how to act within their fissures and inconsistencies. From these dissonant spaces we learn to rework and retune systems towards an increased potential for collaboration and action. They believe that people should have full access to shaping their cities and communities and see design as a medium for creating knowledge and moving beyond paralysis in the face of complexity. From building open source platforms to upend the continued practice of solitary confinement to crafting community based archives to combat gentrification, their work investigates cartographies of slow violence, dispossession, embodied data, and blackness. They have been a collaborator with design teams that implemented projects in New Orleans, Ghana, Colombia, Ethiopia, New York, and Venice and have had work featured in AIA New York, the UN World Urban Forum, and the Tribeca Film Festival. They currently teach in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design.
Jen Kagan writes words for humans and computers. She wonders a lot about where the tech left and social movement left(s) overlap–and where they don't. Jen is a recent graduate of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she's a research resident for the 2017-2018 school year.
Type of proposal
Panel
Description
Detroit-based organizer and archivist Paige Watkins has described their work as "laying a conduit across which stories can travel."
We’re thinking about networks in this metaphorical way, as the web of stories and frameworks that shape our understanding of what is possible and desirable. Made material through research practices, we turn to examples from The Negro Motorist Green Book and the U.S. postal service, and open wi-fi networks and packet sniffing tools. By centering these examples, we problematize understandings of networks as neutral and instead stretch our own assumptions making visible their cracks and fissures; uncovering old stories no longer remembered in the hopes of substantiating a future not yet conceived that allows us to survive and upend capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy; relentlessly striving for new ways forward. We hope to use the panel to have a public conversation about our experiences doing this work in different corners of decolonial design, black geographies, and critical technology worlds.
Duration
45 minutes with 15 minutes for questions
Workshop technical requirements and materials list (if applicable)
[Include equipment/technical requirements, the maximum number of attendees and a full list of materials needed for attendees.]
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