A Tender Supplying: A Critique of Dreamscape at Roots & Society

Installation watch, “Dreamscapes: Imaginings of a Black Pastoral” at Roots & Culture 2021/Image: Anisa Olufemi Land and landscapes personify interrelated experiences: desires and nightmares, treatment and violence, spirituality and trauma, romance and heartbreak, sentimentality and unhappiness, ease and discontent. The land—this land—is each metaphor and tangible archive for curator Anisa […]

The African roots of Swiss design

Design remains a largely white profession, with Black people still vastly underrepresented – making up just 3% of the design industry, according to a 2019 survey. This dilemma isn’t new. For decades, the field’s whiteness has been recognized as a problem, and was being openly discussed as far back as […]