Designing in the Margins: Creativity, Equity, and Resistance

Designing in the Margins: Creativity, Equity, and Resistance is a live, cross-disciplinary panel event that brings together designers, architects, artists, and cultural strategists who are shifting the boundaries of their fields to center justice, identity, and intention in their work. This event invites attendees to consider how design whether through buildings, garments, systems, or stories can serve as both resistance and reimagination.

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In an era where design is increasingly commodified, this panel reclaims it as a radical act: a way of making meaning, claiming space, and challenging the status quo. Each speaker engages with “the margins” not as a site of lack, but as a place of innovation, critique, and creativity.

From speculative spaces and protest aesthetics to community-rooted design practices, the conversation will explore what it means to design with purpose, and how equity can move from idea to material form.
Attendees can expect an evening of bold dialogue, community energy, and creative exchange. The program includes a moderated panel, guided audience Q&A, and an interactive moment for participants to reflect on how their own disciplines can be reshaped through a justice lens.

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