iCare: Designing Healing Futures-Presented by amber williams-king

This workshop series aims to introduce students to the use of design justice as tool for fostering community care,  imagining just futures for all, and building networks of designers, artists, cultural workers and technologists working at the intersection of racial, social and cultural equity.

Workshop Title: “…but there are new suns”: world-building art and design

Workshop Description:Participants are invited to explore research-creation as a world-building practice. How might the principles and techniques of this socially-attuned research method help us investigate our personal values, and ways of bringing these values into closer alignment with our academic work?

Speaker bio:

amber williams-king is a multi-disciplinary Caribbean artist, writer and current PhD candidate at York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies. Her artwork, exploring historical archives, Black geographies and the multiplicity of being, has been featured in print and digital publications, and exhibited internationally. Her master’s thesis “When Palm Trees Break: The fractured horizons of Black Caribbean world-making in the midst of crisis,” was awarded the Michael Baptista Essay Prize by the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University.

Event Information:

Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023
Time: 3PM to 5PM
Location: BL505A, (5th Floor, Bissell Building)Light refreshments will be served.

This event is open to all students.

Register here.