Lens of Impact: Queering Design

Join Swissnex and the Parsons School of Art and Design History and Theory for a cross-cultural dialogue on queering design.

Queer theory offers tools to examine established practices and uncover deeply rooted biases. What can a queer approach bring to the discipline of design? What would a queered design look like?

In this edition of Lens of Impact, we are joined by Saul Pandelakis, illustrator, design researcher, teacher, and sci-fi author, and Antonio Sánchez Gómez, Assistant Professor of Latin American/Latinx Art and Design History and Material Culture at Parsons with a particular interest in feminist, queer, and decolonial criticism. In a discussion moderated by Mev Luna of Parsons, Pandelakis and Sánchez Gómez will share their uniquely situated perspectives as practitioners working in Europe and the Americas, and explore the different lenses through which they approach their practice.

Lens of Impact is a joint initiative between Parsons’ School of Art and Design History and Theory (ADHT) at The New School and Swissnex in Boston and New York, exploring the cross-cultural spaces of art and design discourse.

Program

  • 11:45am – Doors open
  • 12:00pm – Introductions
  • 12:15pm – Moderated conversation
  • 1:00pm – Open discussion
  • 1:30pm – End

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Parsons’ School of Art and Design History and Theory (ADHT) at The New School

  • The New School