Geographies, Systems, Spaces, and Pictures: Scholars and Practitioners on Designing Against Infrastructures of Harm

Abstract

For this roundtable discussion, we were excited to have an opportunity to bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of areas to talk about the themes of this special issue of Design and Culture. We were especially interested in thinking about what we might learn from the interplay of history and design practices – whether formal or informal – specifically in relation to sites of confinement. What might happen, we wondered, if the conversations in the issue Melissa Burch mlburch@umich.edu