Instead of a single title for this exhibition you’ll encounter
a string of words that acknowledge a constellation of
ideas. “InFluxPoetry disconnect interaction exploration
personalizing systems empowerment internet kinky
resilience educate beauty inequality furry…” points to the
conversations we have negotiated as teachers and learners,
makers and thinkers, non-conformists and innovators.
Integrated Designers know how to resist. They hold
a curious power to challenge an authoritarian “no” and
transform it into a “yes.” They occupy a studio practice
that is at one moment tragically paralyzed and at the
next feverishly productive. They engage in deeply
personal inquiries to explore a vast range of materials
and methods including object-based artmaking, service
design, creative entrepreneurship, communication design,
performance, fashion, media design and social practice.
They carve pathways that didn’t exist yesterday.
It would be hard to ignore the technological muscle
of this exhibition. The row of glowing i