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Design Activism/2015/1 min/Reel № 15.001

ByTia Blassingame

Trailer: Tia Blassingame on the texture of racism in the United States

Make. Change./Recorded 2015

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A close reading, kept within reach.

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Tia Blassingame takes design activism as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in USA in 2015, the conversation is grounded in Tia's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Recent graduate Tia Blassingame explores the relationships between race, history and perception in her work.

Tia Blassingame

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Tia Blassingame

USA

Tia Blassingame uses the art of letterpress printing in her work which explores the relationship between race, history and perception.