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Design Politics In Two Parts
by frank news
December 7, 2018
Revisiting the social and political implications and constructs of planning with Devin Bunten and Lawrence J. Vale.
1) A Sense of Where You Are by Devin Bunten
We can trace many of today’s social problems to the policies of the planners, developers, and homeowners who shaped the post-war development boom in US cities and suburbs.
2) Lawrence J. Vale on Design Politics
I think a lot of people see the spatial aspects of power but stop short of talking about it in terms of actual built artifacts. There's of course Foucault looking back at Bentham’s Panopticon and finding relationships between knowledge and power and surveillance and things like that. But I've found that very few people who are interested in the phenomenon of power take the role of design particularly seriously. Similarly, a lot of the people who see themselves as designers don't necessarily want to be as explicitly involved in the politics as their work tends to force them to be.
Planners are focusing less and less on design, separating the physical from the social, but the physical is so important to every social question we ask.
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Deployment Playlist #3: Aurita Maldonado
by Aurita Maldonado
April 20, 2018
Staff Sergeant Aurita Maldonado is a combat decorated Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient. She deployed to Afghanistan between 2008 and 2009. She currently lives in Vieques, Puerto Rico, and has been displaced by Hurricane Maria. She is 7 months pregnant & could use some help. Please take a look at her life, and her story here.
Check our Aurita's Playlist below.