At the Conference
Speakers
Keynote speakers included:
|
Antionette Carroll, founder of Creative Reaction Lab in St. Louis,
created in response to the Michael Brown shooting,
|
|
Andrew Shea, author of Designing for Social Change from New York
City, Imam Azhar Subedar, founder of O’People Foundation in Plano, Texas,
|
|
Mallika Bose, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and
board member of Imagining America.
|
|
Diana Baldi on Timebanking, from Phoenixville, PA
Sally Hurst, Executive Director of the Greenbrier County Health Alliance in Lewisburg, WV Ben Jablonski, founder of Building with Israelis and Palestinians, from Boston Kristin Hughes, Associate Professor of Design from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh speaking on the Meet Me Halfway Toolkit for Transforming Communities with Conversations that Matter Usra Ghazi, Director of Policy and Programs for America Indivisible.org. |
Workshops
Workshops included:
| Town and Gown Spaces, community planning visualization opportunities for attendees, offered by the WVU landscape Architecture faculty and students; |
Living on this Planet in 50 Years, facilitated by Emily Frye
Garton, User Experience Designer at Expel in Washington, DC
|
|
Respect and Rebellion, facilitated by Liz Joyner, Executive
Director of The Village Square US in Tallahassee, FL
|
Place-based Songwriting, conducted by Chris Haddox, Assistant
Professor of Sustainable Design in the WVU School of Community Development
|
|
Healthy Community Engagement, conducted by Sally Hurst, Executive
Director of the Greenbrier County Health Alliance in Lewisburg, WV
|
Community Conversations, facilitated by Associate Professor
Margaret Stout and grad students of Public Administration at WVU
|
| Maker Spaces and Third Places, conducted by Ryan Clifford, Assistant Professor of Design at the University of Kansas |
The Promise of Community: from Righteous Ange to Civic Health,
facilitated by Usra Ghazi, Director of Policy and Programs for America
Indivisible.org
|
|
Compassionate Listening, facilitated by Christine Gilman, who
facilitates reconciliation for women and girls living in war-torn countries,
based in Salem, OR
|
Community Engagement and Branding, facilitated by RJ Thompson,
Graphic and Interactive Design Assistant Professor at Youngstown University
in Ohio
|
| Saturday | 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Sunday | 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Fourteen Lightning talks were also presented, which can be seen on the
Designing Across Divides website.
Diptych Banners
The charge
to designers submitting ideas was “What if we could get past our differences, find common ground, and plant some
great ideas?” We had submissions from Mexico to the Middle East. Works were
chosen from Morgantown, from other West Virginia towns, the East Coast and
West Coast; some were student work and some were professional designers. Ideas
were chosen based on their ability to connect to both sides of a divide without
casting stones at one side. Appealing to values held in common offered the
best chance of a message being heard. Some submissions were already collaborations.
Students and faculty from Virginia Commonwealth University, Morgan University
in Michigan, and Qatar in the Middle East collaborated across the Atlantic
on their submissions. Yossi Lemel from Israel and Chaz Maviyane Davies, born
in Zimbabwe, were also included. See all of the designs in the pdf.
Downloads
Proceedings book
Proceedings and Banner diptych designs
Conference schedules:
