Message From Director:
The October 2024 “The Vibrancy of Needs: Body/Form/Justice” Residency marks the launch of the new Arts & Humanities Social Action Lab at Northeastern, which is part of the Ethics Institute!
The AHAlab is dedicated to promoting generative arts & humanities collaborations for new knowledge and praxis with community members, civic organizers, grassroots artists, and activists from across the urban places in which Northeastern is embedded, centering restorative civic engagement, movement building, grassroots cultural documentation, and urban problem-solving for social justice.
This Residency is generously supported by contributions from the Provost Office, CSSH, CAMD, the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, and the History Department.
Program Information:
During the month of October 2024, Kenneth Bailey (Founder and Co-Director, ds4si) and Judith Leemann (Ecologies of Thought Lead, ds4si & Professor, Fine Arts 3D, MassArt) of The Design Studio for Social Intervention – the renowned Dorchester-based artist research and community development group – join as Visiting Fellows at Northeastern University’s Arts & Humanities Social Action Lab, in a collaboration with Kris Manjapra (Stearns Professor of History and Global Studies, Northeastern University).
Coming together around the provocation, “For the Vibrancy of Needs,” the residency encompasses StudyLabs and public events for faculty, students, community, and staff, in a cross- and anti-disciplinary inquiry into theories and embodiments of justice rooted in experiences of common need. Drawing diversely on aesthetics, somatics, design methodologies, art-making, close reading, counter-archiving, and activism, the inquiry sites itself precisely at the border of the university and the community in which it is embedded, with an aim to transforming and re-imagining the relations this border tries to fix.
Vibrancy of Needs will run from October 2nd to November 7th with
- Conversation at the Center for Design with Kenny Bailey, Judith Leemann, Sara Hendren, and Kris Manjapra on September 19
- StudyLab I at the Center for Design from October 2-4
- StudyLab II at the ds4si storefront space, 545 Columbia Road, Dorchester, October 24-26
- Conversation with Joy James, Kenny Bailey and Judith Leemann at the Center for Design, October 30
- Closing Event at ds4si storefront space, 545 Columbia Road, Dorchester, November 7
Find out how to attend these events at the AHTWeeks2024 Website.
