As part of the ‘DESIGN ETHICS FOR THE NEW NORMAL’ series by WOW New Agency, DARH member Adriana Eysler invited Gemma Copeland of digital coop Common Knowledge to discuss Co-operative Alternatives. Together they explore alternative ways of working in the cultural and creative industries, cooperative models and modes of production and their rise in the… Continue reading Design ethics for the new normal: Co-operative Alternatives
Author: Adriana Eysler
Designers need a union too!
During the 2020 academic workers strike over pay, precarity, gender and racial inequality and rising workloads, striking DARH member Adriana Eysler held a picket line ‘teach out’ on why designers and cultural workers need a union too. She discussed this with a member of the Design and Cultural Workers branch of the grassroots union UVW,… Continue reading Designers need a union too!
Letter in solidarity with the struggle of LA’s Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement
Art Galleries: Stop the Gentrification of Boyle Heights and other Working Class Areas! We, the undersigned, stand united in struggle with the residents of Boyle Heights in their resistance to the gentrification of their area. Since summer, 2016 they have staged a number of public protests against contemporary art galleries that have moved into their… Continue reading Letter in solidarity with the struggle of LA’s Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement