#26 Social Emergency! with Kenneth Bailey
Channel: The Center for Artistic Activism
Date: 06/06/2018

We’re talking with the fantastic Kenneth Bailey, lead at The Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI) on June 1. DS4SI grew out of conversations Kenneth had when a student at MIT, and he realized that the community-based organizations he worked with needed a design studio to help make their organizing more creative and inventive.

The design interventions the studio creates include mobile bike intervention labs, big urban games, “productive fictions”, entirely new communication systems to curb violence, and lots of creative ways for citizens to imagine and invent new ways of participating in civil society.

We’ll talk with Kenneth fresh off a big street action he and DS4SI are organizing: Starbucks and the Social Emergency, on May 29th. The 29th is the day that Starbucks is closing its doors for racial sensitivity training, and this street action will see pop-up Social Emergency stands in front of Starbucks stores around the country, designed to point to the fact that this is not a Starbucks-specific issue but is in fact a social emergency. You can participate – email serc @ ds4si.org for info about how.

Links:
The Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI)
http://www.ds4si.org/#work-section

Starbucks and the Social Emergency, on May 29th
http://www.ds4si.org/blog/2018/5/7/may-29th-call-to-action-starbucks-and-social-emergency-awareness

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