Upcoming Events
Book Talk: Texas State University MFA
Please join MFA/CD at Texas State University's public lecture and Q+A with visiting designer Matthew Wizinsky!
Matthew Wizinsky is a designer, researcher, educator, and author on contemporary issues in design practice and research. He has practiced graphic, interactive, exhibition, and experiential design in a variety of research, cultural, civic, and commercial contexts. His projects attempt to understand the kinds of futures that design imagines and produces, both intentionally and otherwise. His 2022 book 'Design after Capitalism' (MIT Press) argues for a reimagined design paradigm oriented toward deliberate transitions of everyday politics, social relations, and economies. Wizinsky is an Associate Professor of Urban Technology at the University of Michigan, PhD researcher in Transition Design at Carnegie Mellon University, and Associate Editor for 'Visible Language,' the longest running peer-reviewed design journal.
Service Design in Government
Designing toward & with Community Economies (April 26, 2023)
“The community economy has the capacity to politicize the economic in new ways… economy as a site of decision, of ethical praxis, instead of as the ultimate reality/container/constraint; and all economic practices as inherently social and always connected in their concrete particularities to the ‘commerce of being together’” (Gibson-Graham, 2006, p. 194–195; Nancy, 2000, p. 74)
During the workshop, we'll work through a series of steps to ask questions and sketch ideas based on a specific US federal program, full of complex and challenging systems of services and transactions. Specifically, the workshop will draw the attention of service designers toward diverse models of transaction, labor, and enterprise. Participants will collaborate to brainstorm and sketch new government services that can direct resources or even fully collaborate with the abundant diversity of practices already operating in community economies.
Past Events
University of Buffalo Arts Management Symposium
Apr 3, 2023
Scratching the Surface
Oct 26, 2022
Podcast: Interview with Jarrett Fuller
American Advertising Federation (AAF Ft. Wayne)
Oct 20, 2022
Book Talk at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Oct 13, 2022
Book talk hosted by the Art & Design Visiting Artists program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, College of Fine & Applied Arts. In conversation with Associate Professor Eric Benson.
The Deep Dive (podcast)
Aug 4, 2022
Podcast interview with Philip McKenzie, cultural anthropologist and host of ‘The Deep Dive.’
Ad Club Cincinnati
Jul 28, 2022
Dear Future
Jul 6, 2022
Podcast: Interview with Marco van Hout, Digital Society School (Netherlands)
Speculative Futures Milan
Jun 17, 2022
Chicago Graphic Design Club (1)
Jun 9, 2022
Book Talk
Carnegie Mellon University
May 6, 2022
Book Talk & Discussion with Dimeji Onafuwa, PhD
CMU Futurist Club
Apr 22, 2022
A discussion with the student Futurist Club at Carnegie Mellon University
Google (NYC)
Apr 8, 2022
Book Talk & Conversation with Alex Wright, Head of Experience, Google News
Human Futures Studio (interview)
Apr 7, 2022
Mat Licenz, EVP & Foresight Director for the foresight and strategy consultancy Human Futures Studio, interviewed Wizinsky to discuss insights on evolving design practices and tendencies toward postcapitalism.
SHIFT{ed} by AIGA Design Educators Community
Aug 4, 2021
Wizinsky and Visible Language editor Mike Zender will moderate a panel discussion on Sustained Research practices in design. Wizinsky shared his own sustained research as Design Lead for the research collaborative ‘History Moves,’ a combination of public history and participatory design.
Chicago Graphic Design Club (2)
Mar 6, 2021
Wizinsky gave a presentation on his design research practices, including how they have influenced his research on Design after Capitalism.
University of East London Research
Dec 9, 2020
Wizinsky delivered the keynote lecture for the UEL Research event "Sustainable Development Goals: Translation between research and practice." Presenters included: Silvia Covarino, German University in Cairo; Masa Noguchi, University of Melbourne; Lorenzo Imbesi, Sapienza University; Sahar Zahir, Oxford Brookes University; organized by Bertug Ozarisoy, University of East London
2019 AIGA National Design Conference
Apr 4, 2019
Presentation of the concepts and course titled ‘Design after Capitalism’ presented at AIGA National Design Conference 2019, in Pasadena, CA.
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