Artfinity: Celebrating Unteaching

Join us for "Celebrating Unteaching" where MIT Press authors where MIT Press authors of Racism Untaught, Lisa E. Mercer and Terresa Moses, will share their expertise in a hands-on workshop & conversation moderated by MIT Associate Professor Catherine D'Ignazio.

Attendees will learn more about the Racism Untaught framework and practice unteaching with the book's accompanying Toolkit.

: (MIT Press) emerged from the need to foster learning environments that examine racialized design. Anti-racist design interventions can be difficult. Well-intentioned conversations can fuel tensions, activate racialized trauma, and lead to misunderstandings. In Racism Untaught, Mercer and Moses, two veteran educators, provide a step-by-step guide to anti-racist interventions that benefits all participants. Through dozens of successful workshops across the country, Mercer and Moses provide a framework for unlearning racialized design practices while fostering equity, justice, and community building.

Terresa Moses is creative director of Blackbird Revolt, director of design justice and associate professor of graphic design at the University of Minnesota, and owner of Black Garnet Books. She created Project Naptural, co-created Racism Untaught and Hatch & Flock, and serves on the board of Black Liberation Lab.

Lisa Elzey Mercer's (she/her/hers) interests include developing and executing design interventions focused on ethics and anti-oppressive design frameworks. She developed Operation Compass, co-created Racism Untaught and Hatch and Flock, and is focused on developing a situated sense of ethics in design as a Ph.D. Student in Design at the University of Edinburgh.

Catherine D'Ignazio is an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning and Director of the Data + Feminism Lab at MIT. A scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement, D'Ignazio has published two bookes with MIT Press and has won multiple awards for her art and design work.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Hayden Library, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, United States