November 5–17, 2017
1700 Lida St
Pasadena, California
United States
Event Sponsored by Media Design Practices MFA
Different Tomorrows: Designing Futures Beyond Whiteness brings together writers, artists, designers, and activists who explore ethnofuturisms (afro, chicanix, indigenous) and the ultra unreal.
Join Rasheedah Phillips, Naima Keith, Catherine Ramírez and many more. Take part in screenings, listenings, discussions, workshops, and a day-long symposium exploring forms of futurity whose politics, aesthetics, ideologies and cultures are black, brown, and yellow.
The event repositions design discourse beyond the eurocentric, techo-determinist normalities of the past / present / future distinctions and instead looks at time refracted through prisms of race, gender and inequality.
EVENTS + EXHIBITION: Wind Tunnel Graduate Center for Critical Practice
ArtCenter College of Design, 950 South Raymond, Pasadena, CA 91105
November 9, 6–8pm, Design Dialogues
Naima Keith, Deputy Director, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
November 14, 3-6pm, Media Assembling
Screening works from: Wanuri Kahiu, Larissa Sansour, Jonathan Dotse & Kabiru Seidu, Simon Rittmeier, Andrew Kaggia, Saya Woolfalk and Rachel Lears, Parliament Funkadelic, Sun Ra and Alex Rivera
November 15, 3–6pm, Media Assembling
Listening works from: DJ Oyinboy & Emma Dabiri, Moor Mother, Drexciya, Deltron 3030, Rammellzee, Chimurenga, Black Earth Ensemble
November 16, 6–10pm: An Assembling, 6–8pm: symposium, reception to follow
Catherine Ramirez, Director, Chicano Latino Research Center, UC Santa Cruz, Afrofuturism/Chicanafuturism: Fictive Kin
John Jennings, graphic artist, Black Comix, Art Professor
Rasheedah Phillips, Black Quantum Futurism & Community Futures Lab, creator, AfroFuturist Affair
November 13, 1:30–3:30pm
TOUR: Octavia Butler Archive, Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino, CA 91108
Docent tour (pre-registration required; 20 people max.)
November 1–December 1
PRINTWORKS: James Lemont Fogg Library, ArtCenter
1700 Lida St., Pasadena, CA 91103
Graphic Discourses Collection
Print works from: Octavia Butler, Louis Chude-Sokei, Kojo Laing, Yinka Shonibare, Joanne Piéf and Nikhil Singh
About
Different Tomorrows: Designing Futures Beyond Whiteness is part of an ongoing research platform organized and led by MDP core faculty Elizabeth Chin & Sean Donahue. The project situates itself in sites across the globe to develop new platforms for design practice that recognize and challenge the politics of power and inequality that are materialized in design aesthetics, practices, pedagogies, and systems.
Applications are now being accepted for fall 2018 admissions into Graduate Media Design Practices. Priority deadline is January 15, 2018.
Media Design Practices (MDP) is an interdisciplinary design MFA preparing designers for our new now.
Ours is a time of constant change: tecunological transformations, global inequity, and environmental uncertainty. This world demands new design practices. Designers today must be daring, critical, and engaged in their communities. Are you ready?
With a grounding in media, technology, experimental making, and social practice, MDP graduates are unafraid to use design to question the present. Join our MFA program and use your skills—prototyping and research, creative tech and fieldwork—to take on today’s challenges and envision new futures. Work closely with faculty known for cutting-edge research and multidisciplinary expertise. Investigate emerging media, develop new methodologies, engage with diverse cultures, and surprise yourself by making things the likes of which you have never seen before.
Our alumni go on to become design leaders in every conceivable field: major technology firms, innovative nonprofit organizations, and independent design practices.
Contact: mdp [at] artcenter.edu
