Friday, October 25, 2024, 11:00am-1:00pm - in person Braun Room, Swartz Hall Room 101, Harvard, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge MA

Designing Within Conflict Workshop
Student Activism and Archive Politics: From #blacklivesmatter to #gazasolidarity

This in-person workshop is open to Harvard affiliates only and will not be recorded.

In the spring of 2024, on campuses across the United States, universities violently repressed student-led Gaza Solidarity Movement protests. Before, during, and after this repression, university archives collected material from those protests. These collection projects extend university repression of the Gaza Solidarity Movement into the future—after physically destroying the movement’s encampments, universities are attempting to take ownership of the evidence on which historical narratives of the movement will be based.

How can student activists retain control of the memory of their activism? How can student-led activism be remembered on its own terms? And how can student-led activism be passed across successive generations of student cohorts?

The Design Justice Archive was created to respond to these questions in the wake of Design Justice Actions, a student-led campaign to advance racial justice at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. This workshop will review the work of the archive and the ways in which archiving projects can support student activism.

Featuring Andrew Herscher, PhD, Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan

Registration is required. Space is limited. Please register by noon on Friday, October 18. (registration is still open)
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This workshop event as part of the series Designing Within Conflict: Building for Peace with a focus on intersectionality of injustice, interdisciplinary art and design practices, and care. It is co-sponsored by the Senior Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at the Harvard Divinity School, Harvard ArtLab, and the Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices Seminar of the Harvard GSD.