Jessica Helfand
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Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
On Activism
A starting point for a new kind of dialogue—us with you, and you with yourself—because even and especially in a year such as this one, we know that at the core of all creative enterprise lies a singular, beating heart.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
On Ablerism
What does it mean, right now, to be self-reliant—to trust your voice, heed your mind, and connect to your own sense of what really matters?
Allison Arieff|Audio
Episode 133: Urban Reckoning
With Allison Arieff: The Magic of Empty Spaces, cities during COVID-19, Solving All The Wrong Problems, harvesting honey, The Good Fight
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
On Philosophy
Noreen Khawaja and Jessica Helfand talk about the philisophical nature of self-reliance.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
On Seeing
Rethinking a color. Awakening the senses. And soldiering on.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
On Architecture
Herewith, the first in a series of conversations with artists, architects, photographers, cinematographers, designers and makers of all kinds, from all over the world.
Jessica Helfand|Audio
Episode 132: Back to School?
With Lee Moreau: How to teach during the pandemic, robust design, jigsaw puzzles, The New York Times Spelling Bee
Jessica Helfand|Audio
Episode 131: Word by Word
With Hrishikesh Hirway: games and puzzles, The West Wing Weekly, soap operas, Home Cooking
Jessica Helfand|Audio
Episode 130: Tackling History
With Bobby C. Martin, Jr.: rebranding Champions Design; football in Washington; demands for change at design schools; cooking during quarantine.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Remembering Ralph Caplan
"If it were a religious denomination", Caplan once wrote, "design would be Unitarianism"
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Remembering
Visual memories sear themselves into the unconscious, bearing down and not letting go.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Storytelling
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
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