9/27, 7p-12am:
20 Questions Opening Fundraising Party with DJ Real P,

9/28, 12pm-10pm:
DS4SI Hub Opening! Details coming soon

Oct 3-5

As a studio seeking to prototype and disseminate creative approaches to social change, we are often met with critiques around practicality. This is an epistemological and strategic conundrum. Anthony Romero will question the thought architectures alive within and across institutions that keep binary logics of poetic and practical, sense and nonsense intact.

Oct 10-12

In DS4SI’s Aesthetic Justice Manifesto, we declare that we all have the “right to be moved” through aesthetic experiences. Tiago Gualberto will bring his insights and shared questions about the enclosing of contemporary art to formal spaces and how the techniques of multiple approaches to aesthetics in and of place can be brought to bear in public.

Oct 17-19

Much of DS4SI’s work is about both understanding the everyday as a political project and finding collective agency to reimagine the everyday. Many of our social interventions invite participants into rehearsing and performing otherwise. Grisha Coleman will bring her own artistic and political vision to why a critique and reimagining of the everyday is needed.

Oct 17-19

Much of DS4SI’s work has been about trying to sharpen how social interventionists interested in arcing towards social change might better design their social interventions. With Nato Thompson, this theme will engage seasoned interventionists in asking the question “How might social practice continue to sharpen its practice towards social change?”