Design and Solidarity

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Conversations on Collective Futures

By Rafi Segal and Marisa Morán Jahn

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In the face of crisis and economic inequality, Design and Solidarity explores the vital role of mutual aid through innovative design, art, and architecture. Artists and architects Rafi Segal and Marisa Morán Jahn engage with leading thinkers to examine how these creative disciplines can reshape housing, care, labour, food, and social movements. The book offers illuminating conversations and ideas on fostering communal self-determination and collective well-being in contemporary society.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in the intersections of social change, design, and collective action, including activists, designers, architects, and those curious about mutual aid and alternative economic models.

In this book, artist Marisa Morán Jahn and architect Rafi Segal converse about the transformative potential of mutualism and design with leading thinkers and practitioners. From these dialogues emerge powerful visions of futures guided by communal self-determination and collective well-being.

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In times of crisis, mutual aid becomes paramount. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, new forms of sharing had gained momentum to redress precarity and stark economic inequality. Today, a diverse array of mutualistic organisations seek to fundamentally restructure housing, care, labour, food, and more. Yet design, art, and architecture play a key role in shaping these initiatives, fulfilling their promise of solidarity, and ensuring that these values endure.

In Design and Solidarity, artist Marisa Morán Jahn and architect Rafi Segal converse about the transformative potential of mutualism and design with leading thinkers and practitioners: Mercedes Bidart, Arturo Escobar, Michael Hardt, Greg Lindsay, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ai-jen Poo, and Trebor Scholz. Together, they consider how design inspires, invigorates, and sustains contemporary forms of mutualism—including platform cooperatives, digital-first communities, emerging currencies, mutual aid, care networks, social-change movements, and more.

From these dialogues emerge powerful visions of futures guided by communal self-determination and collective well-being.

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Design and Solidarity is praised as an essential and inspiring read on care, mutuality, and alternatives to capitalism, lauded by voices such as Anne-Marie Slaughter, Ellen Lupton, and Hashim Sarkis. It is described as a concise, cross-disciplinary field guide that moves seamlessly from theory to practice, championing new forms of collaboration, pop-up services, and mutualist economics that rebuild public life from the bottom up.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780231204057

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 February 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Columbia University Press

Illustration: 30 b&w illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 232

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Arts & Culture Marisa Morán Jahn Non-Fiction Rafi Segal

About the Author

Marisa Morán Jahn is an artist, filmmaker, and Sundance Fellow who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and Parsons/The New School, where she is the associate director of integrated design. Artforum has praised her work as “exemplifying the possibilities of art as social practice.”

Rafi Segal is an architect and associate professor of architecture and urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current work focuses on how emerging forms of sharing and collectivity affect the design of buildings and cities.