About dean erdmann

dean erdmann is a multidisciplinary artist working in moving and still images, sculpture, and installation. Their work in the past several years grapples specifically with how biography and history collide. Accordingly, their practice often centers on archival research from preexisting or self-generated archives. Their work explores class, whiteness, and Americana; the body and queerness; place, family, geopolitics, and recuperative histories.

About Design and Politics in Transition

Who should design serve? How does design work in a crisis, and also recognizing that some people have been living in crisis for hundreds of years? And how might we reimagine design as a radical discipline for dialogue and action? From reinterpreting legal histories and theories that enable the design of place, to redesigning food distribution systems around food and land justice, to transforming what it means to be family, design offers many ways to transform our relationships with ourselves, each other and our environment. Design and Politics in Transition offers inspiration, theory, and guidance on a variety of design practices and epistemologies that together help us transition toward different, more equitable worlds where all can thrive–even during historical moments of political and social strife.