It’s Time to Find Your People

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One thing has become clear in these strange and divided times: You can find your people if you know where to look.

“There are very few really dark places,” says the dark matter expert.

It’s something I’d never considered: a shared barrier to an existential legacy, populated with people who don’t realize they’re connected through exclusion. Families in brightly lit suburbs. Incarcerated people. City-dwellers. Third-shift workers. People who don’t have access to nature.

And, it really matters. “It’s a chance to think about: ‘What is this universe that I live in?’” she says. “Everyone has a right to know the universe.”

Equity is a core value at Design Observer. To that end, Equity Observer stories aim to expand our understanding of the people, projects, and ideas — across all sectors— who are reconfiguring familiar systems to address the inequities that unite us, whether we know it or not. We call those people redesigners.

The stories in this pillar are the fuel for Design Observer Twenty, penned by redesigners creating new tools and forging new paths in design, business, education, health, philanthropy, energy, the built environment, race, identity, sustainability, civic life, poverty alleviation, and justice. 

Know a redesigner? Are you one? Pitch us here.