Deem Journal Issue 4 (A Sense of Place) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. For Issue Four, “A Sense of Place,” we reexamine the meaning of place, and its making, while considering the emergence of new social landscapes, spaces, and needs.
Deem Journal Issue 3 (Envisioning Equity) is here. We bring together a range of perspectives on designing for difference. Deem Journal is a biannual print publication and online platform focused on design as social practice.
Deem Journal Issue 2 (Pedagogy for a New World) is here and is examining the role of design in the ways we produce and share knowledge. Issue Two is led by a conversation between artist, architect, and community organizer Lauren Halsey and Deem editors Alice Grandoit-Šutka and Isabel Flower. The story investigates architecture and the power of place, the importance of community autonomy, and how Halsey’s goals as an artist have manifested in the Summaeverythang community center in South Central, Los Angeles.
Deem Journal Issue 1 (Designing for Dignity) is here. Issue One uses Adrienne Maree Brown’s Emergent Strategy as a framework for reassessing our relationships to design and to change. Through positioning design as a social practice, dignity becomes our lens for considering various global perspectives on co-living, architecture, and hyperlocal food systems. An interdisciplinary and multigenerational group of contributors lend their points of view on what "Designing for Dignity" might mean.