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This activity was developed by Jane Pirone and Barbara Adams for a series of speculative storytelling workshops titled \u201cCollective Effervescence\u201d. All artwork by Jane Pirone.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbara Adams is a sociologist whose interdisciplinary research looks at how knowledge is produced and political action is initiated through art and design projects. Barbara co-edited the book Design as Future-Making and is co-editor in chief of the journal Design and Culture. She is Assistant Professor of Design and Social Justice at Parsons School of Design and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Wesleyan University. \n

\nJane Pirone is an Associate Professor of Design Ecologies at Parsons School of Design where they served as Dean of the School of Design Strategies from 2015-2019 and as Director of the Communication Design program from 2006-2011. Jane\u2019s creative and transdisciplinary practice engages with living systems, storytelling, participatory futures, and new technologies from critical, queer and post-human perspectives.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How do you design for solidarity?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use these questions and principles to move your work from a narrative of saviorism towards justice and solidarity. Use the illustration in the PDF to map out the values that drive your work on humanitarian innovation or whatever you are currently giving attention towards in your life.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questions to guide collective action:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n