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ALL IS WELL

Action 5: Video Sketch 2 1 This video started as an internal quarrel with myself. Looking back at my actions, they did not reflect my main concerns. Because I cannot talk about them from my current geographic location. Well, technically I can, but that’s a risk I’m not willing to take. Freedom of speech is […]

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Disputed Ownership

Action 5: Video Sketch 1In a group with Kimia Gholami Watch on Vimeo here In Action 3, Kimia and I worked on decolonial design and had many conversations about it afterward. Around the same time we’d came across this article by chance in The New York Times “To Protest Colonialism, He Takes Artifacts From Museums” […]

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Translating Identity

GSMD-500 | Grad Studio 1 Action 4 : Step Out and Look Wider – Generation Starting Action 4, I was thinking about the concept of “Identity”. Random words came to my mind as I wrote them down: How do we identify things? taking ice as an example. Ice is frozen water, it’s cold, has a rigid […]

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Exploring through making: Decolonial Design

GSMD-500 | Grad Studio 1 Action 3 : Extending and SeekingMy teammate for this Action: Kimia Gholami Action 3 was talking about extending our studios beyond our usual settings of screen / desk / room. For starters, we were prompt to choose a theoretical construct from the “stretch lexicon” document provided to us. Looking at all those […]

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TERROIR – an offering

GSMD-500 | Grad Studio 1 Action 2 : TERROIR – an offeringMy teammate for this Action: Jeffrey Li For this Action, we had to design a food experience for our assigned partners. A dish that has meaning to us or our families which would be an expression of our ground that we are most identified with. For […]