Dear Paprika! community, 

Happy New Year! 

As 2021 arrives, we are reconsidering ways Paprika! can address ongoing unpredictability. We are no longer just thinking reactively but also looking to a future that requires even more endurance and patience. Amidst a long pandemic and a hybrid learning environment, we would like to mirror the slowness we have been experiencing in the way that we work, offering more time for issue editors, contributors, and readers to think, respond, and write, in contrast with the typically fast-paced nature of Paprika!. 
 
This semester, we are slowing down by providing more time between fewer issues, and more opportunities for dialogue between issues. To remain responsive and reflective, we are also introducing interruptions to our issue series in the form of dispatches—thematically ambiguous collections of texts, images, and more that will respond to, analyze, critique, or further develop past Paprika! content and/or current events.

Our hope is that this format will help us to work towards intentionality and action in the conversations we have as we address ongoing issues within the school and the wider contexts of a profession, an academy, and a planet. We envision the Spring 2021 installment of Paprika! as a call to reflect, respond, and invent with empathy, criticality, retrospection, and imagination—to consider how we can use Paprika! to facilitate a rethinking of design practice, education, and what it means to be at YSoA.
 
We are extremely excited to announce the Spring 2021 lineup as follows:
 

Dispatch 01
by Gina Jiang, Jerry Chow, and Will Beck
February 11

Volume 06, Issue 9 
-ish 
by Timothy Wong and Jessie Chui 
February 25

Volume 06, Issue 10 
There’s No Place Like 
by Rachael Tsai, Jack Rusk, Diana Smiljkovic, and Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen
March 4

Dispatch 02
by Yushan Jiang, Tian Wang & Calvin Yang Yue
March 18

Volume 06, Issue 11 
Architecture or Building
by Christina Zhang, Katie Colford, and Joshua Tan
April 1

Volume 06, Issue 12 
Fashion 
by Angela Lufkin and Ian Erickson
April 15

Dispatch 03
by Ethnie Xu and Ariel Bintang
April 29

In addition to issues and dispatches, we will be continuing our podcast with a series of conversations between students and external correspondents. Stay tuned for more information!

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Yours, 

Paprika! Spring 2021 Coordinating Editors
Gina Jiang, Jerry Chow, Will Beck