RE- IMAGINING & RE-DESIGNING PUBLIC LIFE
Dance Court activation in Mary Hannon Park, Dorchester
Video by Daniel Villanueva
We are an artistic research and development outfit for the improvement of civil society and everyday life. The Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI) partners with communities, artists, and social justice practitioners to imagine, demonstrate, and collectively rebuild places to be more just and vibrant.
OUR WORK
Situated at the intersections of design thinking and practice, social justice and activism, public art and social practice and civic / popular engagement, we design and test social interventions with and on behalf of marginalized populations, controversies and ways of life.
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“In this moment we must summon and celebrate all our not-knowing. We must imagine that we will discover and inhabit spaces that keep us all alive.”
Upcoming at The Design Gym + 545 Space
Upcoming at The Design Gym + 545 Space
Next Panel: Tuesday, May 20th, 6-8 PM
About this Event:
Throughout history, it has been the trickster figures who messed with the line dividing this from that, who troubled the certainty of sequence. Since 2005, ds4si has worked to build tools and a community of practice around rearranging the given. Now, in 2025, we find ourselves called to reach even wider for the practices that will keep us from falling into or for the binaries. Impossibility and failure are usually thought of as barriers to creative work. What orientation of body, mind, pen allow these instead to be the force driving new inquiry? For the second panel in our Beyond the Binary speaker series we bring choreographic thinkers Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish to take us into their work on impossibility and its destabilization.