DSGN AGNC has had many friends and collaborators over the years.
Quilian Riano, Principal and Founder.
What do you do when your website is hacked and you lose over two year’s worth of content? You rebuild and add! Today we relaunch a post-hack dsgnagnc.com — with new content! Although some of our content is gone forever, you can now read about a few new projects such as: –La Casita Verde, –La Mision Campus, and –ShareWhat?!. More coming soon…
READ THE FULL SANTA CRUZ VISIBLE STUDIO REPORT. Last semester anthropologist Alessandro Angelini and I (Quilian) co-tought a travel design studio. The studio was offered by the Design and Urban Ecologies program at Parsons, The Newschool of Design. This new masters program studies the city by emphasizing a radical collaboratively environment where designers and social/political scientists work side by side to help students gain a broad understanding of the complex economic, political, social, environmental, and physical forces that influence urban growth and development.
#FolkMoMA is a crowdsourced protest/call for design ideas to draw/sketch/photoshop/collage possibilities of interaction between the American Folk Art Museum and MoMA buildings. My quick entry to this call for ideas is Chutes and Ladders - a project that envisions what would happen if groups collectively created new paths, breaking parts of both museums to bring them together.
Full list and Interactive Diagram Showing Connections and Densities of DSGN AGNC Activities in 2012. We have began 2013 in DSGN AGNC looking forward to a year of designs, actions, events, publications in partnership with a variety of groups. One thing we know for sure, we will continue to explore the expanded role of critical discourse, architecture and design in the building of communities. We look forward to sharing information on events and actions with you throughout the year (subscribe to our updates). Thanks for your ongoing support and feedback, we view it as a key part of our ongoing critical explorations. Read More...
During the Fall of 2012, NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) closed the street and parking area at Corona Plaza, thus setting the stage for a new commons in Corona, Queens. DSGN AGNC was commissioned by the Queens Museum of Art to help activate the new public space with a series of interventions that engage the community to create a proposed redesign of the plaza. The Diagram and Research Action is the initial phase and serves to identify the issues and hidden urban conflicts affecting the community of Corona and thus the plaza. Our approach looks at the spatial dynamics of Corona Plaza as an exemplification of the socio-political issues within the community. As part of a series of conversations with the local community, this research will result in a design for a space that builds social connections and provides opportunities for recreation, education, commerce etc. Read More...
Critical Activist Design: A Conversation with Quilian Riano interview on the Polis Blog. Read More...
Architect and artist Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong recently published a small interview with DSGN AGNC's Quilian Riano about the three days of UIC: CasaMare workshops on Discolè. Read More...
We are happy to announce that two collaborative projects that DSGN AGNC has helped found and guide will be displayed at Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good, this year's theme at the U.S.A. Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. Read More...
MEDIA AS TACTIC: from print to practice is an event organized by DSGN AGNC as part of a one-week artist residency at the Austrian Cultural Forum through an invitation by WochenKlausur to be a part of the Our Haus exhibit. 07.08.12 || 04:00 PM ACFNY 11th Floor 11 East 52nd Street New York, NY 10022 RSVP http://www.acfny.org/event/reservation/dsgn-agnc-1/ The conversation will center around how different groups and organizations are using media as a tactic to advocate for change in the city, broaden the voices that are heard, and to apply pressure... Read The Rest →
the Critical and Activist practice: A Discussion is an event organized by DSGN AGNC as part of a one-week artist residency at the Austrian Cultural Forum through an invitation by WochenKlausur to be a part of the Our Haus exhibit. 07.02.12 || 06:30 PM ACFNY Auditorium 11 East 52nd Street New York, NY 10022 RSVP http://www.acfny.org/event/reservation/dsgn-agnc/ The conversation will explore the question of what it means to be Critical and Activist in the context of design/art/architecture/urban practices. As practices increasingly engage social and environmental issues the question remains as to how to effectively... Read The Rest →
