Join my colleagues and I on Tuesday, April 8th at @printedmatterinc for the launch of Process Pamphlets—a publishing initiative started by @bdenzer to help demystify how design projects come to life. I’ll be sharing a project I worked on with @sachsartsphilly for an exhibition on Sam Maitin. We’re excited to share this work, come through!
🔌 From 16 to 20 March, Elaine López (@elopez12 ), designer, researcher, and educator, led her workshop ‘Bound Together’ this week as part of Masters’ Interdisciplinary Workshops Week.
Bound Together was a dialogue-based workshop that combined conversation with Risograph bookmaking as tools for connection and collective meaning-making. Slowing down in response to transactional modes of communication, participants engaged through structured questions, collage, printing, and binding — creating space to listen, reflect, and relate beyond roles and titles.
Workshop by: Elaine López (@elopez12 )
Organized by: Graphic Elisava (@graphic.elisava )
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Complexity in Practice, 2025
This book traces RISD’s Center for Complexity’s philosophy, partnerships, and projects over five years. This project-based research unit argued for new ways of knowing that embrace entanglement, systems, and collaboration. Part manifesto, part record of practice, this book reframes design as a tool for navigating 21st century complexity rather than simplifying it.
Write More Soon, 2025
In collaboration with Swarthmore College, my Bound Together workshop was adapted to facilitate sustained dialogue between undergraduate students and incarcerated women serving life sentences. Due to communication restrictions, the workshop prompts became the basis for a semester-long email exchange, encouraging participants to share personal stories and find common ground. Excerpts from these exchanges were compiled into a zine and poster, honoring the emotional labor of writing across barriers and underscoring the role of care, witness, and connection as forms of resistance.
