Draw The Line

Ellen McGirt

The Supreme Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act

On April 29th, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Louisiana v. Callais, a case which purported to examine whether Louisiana’s latest congressional map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Design Observer was already in this story when it landed, and I want to tell you why and what we know.  The 6-3 ruling, written by Justice … Continued

Arts + Culture

Laura Sofia Cardozo|Peru’s Sacred Valley

The value of multigenerational memory in design practice

Attendee at the Reclaiming Value convening on ways Indigenous knowledge frameworks can be responsibly borrowed and applied in design work

Jessica Helfand|The Icarus Diaries

16: Seeing Red

Today was a hard day in the studio. I made a lot of mistakes. I had to start over and over and over again. I hated everything I did. Poor decisions. Many of them. Most, actually.