SUNY Purchase ︎ (DES3240) Design Issues
Queering Design (Education)
Queering Design (Education)
I’m choosing to read this as a way to explore the idea of what graphic design education can and “should” be, as a function of how you perceive it currently.
If there’s time / desire we may watch this
Required readings/viewings
Jack Halberstam on Queer Failure, Silly Archives and the Wild︎You Won’t Believe What This Bizarre Design Cult Eats For Breakfast. The Truth Will Shock U from Elliott Earls’ Studio Practice webseries︎
We Can Listen and Push Back at the Same Time by Kristina Ketola Bore︎
Let’s Talk About Body Reproduction by Nate Pyper︎
We Must Make Queer Praxis Accessible by Ginger Brooks Takahashi︎
We Must Topple the Tropes, Cripple the Canon by Ramon Tejada︎
What Does “Queering Design Education” Actually Look Like in Practice? (Nicole Killian Interview)︎(Also note the list of additional readings there not all of the links work, in the interest of not simply copypasta-ing that stuff, I will just make sure that you are aware of it)
Questions to think about as you read these
- Is your work being culturally viable (profitable, employable) part of your view of success? How much of this is presupposed?
- Is having a voice part of your view of success? Do you see those two things as mutual exclusive?
- How much do you feel this is part of a legacy of heteronormativity, and how much (if at all) does that matter to you?
- How can we as designers/students/educators reproduce by spreading ideas to different institutions?
- How valuable is social capital/networking to you?
- Is it too transactional for you to view it that way (versus community, friendship, whathaveyou)?
Related, but not required readings to help provide some context
- Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam, Chapter 3︎
- Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance from Genderfail︎
- Impact of the Bauhaus on design education︎
- Deprofessionalization by Michael Rock︎
- Allen Iverson “Y’all talking about practice!”︎