About the program
Taking place October 24-25, Deem Journal’s third annual symposium includes hybrid in-person/online programming dedicated to expansive perspectives on liberatory design thinking. Through presentations, conversations, and a participatory activation, this daylong gathering considers challenging and topical subjects through the intersecting lenses of design and social practice. The program brings together deeply engaged, experimentally inclined, and intergenerational thinkers and doers across a range of lived experiences and expertise. Presenters include Chicago-based artists Edra Soto and Theaster Gates, Deem Journal Co-Founder Nu Goteh, and Columbia University professor of architecture and African American studies, Mabel O. Wilson. Co-hosted by Deem Journal and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.