Part of event series: Fall 2020 Design Lecture Series
ORGANIZED BY
Furniture Design Department
EVENT DESCRIPTION
FOLAYEMI WILSON - A PRACTICE OF RADICAL MAKING
Wilson will discuss using speculative fictions as a strategy in her work, and a socially-focused design practice she shares with designer norman teague. focusing on recent projects, she will talk about how she positions the black imagination as an essential element in black survival and self-determination through an afrofuturist framework, and uses design to seat black and brown communities at tables of power to influence urban and social design.
Folayemi (Fo) Wilson is an object and image maker whose work celebrates the Black imagination as a technology of resistance and self-determination. Her work explores the Black Atlantic experience through sculptural and multimedia installations presenting speculative fictions that reference history, integrating inspiration from American vernacular architecture, literature and science fiction, using original sculpture, found objects, archival media, sound and video. Her process utilizes training in art history and critical theory employing the archive and other research methodologies to mine history in her presence.
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