Inspired by Octavia Butler’s work, this session invited designers into an immersion on how to navigate compounding crises with collective action and imagination as the medicine for overwhelm and isolation.
> Data for Civic Action: Accessible Tech Tools for Spatial Justice & Community Design.
Hands-on and pragmatic, this session explored how spatial data can expose injustice—and fuel community power. Desingers learned foundational GIS skills while practicing how tell stories with data that shift power.
> Toppling Statues: Memorials, Monuments and Designing a New Commemorative Landscape.
Designers unpacked the responsibility they hold to remagine memorials and monuments as a tool for uplifing stories that have been buried in collective memory. Through case studies, designers learned innovative approaches in commemorative landscape design that center co-creation, truth-telling and healing.