Welcome to the new year and the newsletter! While we're easing into our work, priorities, and reflections, we invite you to check out last week's Year End Newsletter (in case you missed it!) and offer up some amazing opportunities by DFA Alumni.
Here's to hoping you had a healthy and slow start to the year.
Warmly,
Alden + The DFA Team
In case you missed it, check out the full spread of the DFA annual Year End Newsletter, highlighting just a small handfull of ways this tenacious, passionate Network took action in 2021.
Black Futures: A Black History Month Panel Bluebonnet Data
February 2, 2022 | 7pm EST
Along with her colleagues, DFA Alumni Christina Hahn and her organization Bluebonnet Data are hosting Black History Month Panel: Black Futures, featuring the incredible work of Ernest McMillan, Ruby Powell-Dennis, Kristina Williams, and Christian Crenshaw. The session will focus how government, technology and art have and will continue to play a critical role in the future of Black folks living in the U.S. Bluebonnet is working to not only honor the ways in which Black people have led American history, but will continue to shape American futures.
Re-Imagining the City with Value Replacement Therapy CreaTures
February 1, 2022 | 12pm CST
The future of cities, smart or not, depends on the public’s capacity and willingness to stretch their imagination and envision new sociotechnical possibilities. In this session, Roy Bendor, Assistant Professor of Critical Design in Delft University of Technology, will discuss the use of speculative design as a means to disclose the malleability of urban technologies and invite seminar participants to try out an urban futuring exercise called Value Replacement Therapy.
