A free, public introduction to ways of surfacing systems understandings, based on work done by artist Judith Leemann in partnership with the Design Studio for Social Intervention, a creativity lab for the social justice sector. We begin with a quick tour through some of the conceptual and practical tools we have used get at and under systems: analog mapping, hacking diagrams, object choreographies, and physical model building. We offer some thoughts on what we learn about the tools themselves by watching what they do in two different contexts: in studio art classrooms where Leemann uses them in her teaching, and in activist contexts such as mobile Creativity Labs where ds4si uses them to shift habits of response within social justice circuits. We close with a facilitated run through a few of these approaches, allowing interested participants to walk their own questions through the tools on hand.

This is event is free, but reservations are required.