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Tiago Gualberto visits DS4SI for Black History Month

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Black Citizenship Project Updates

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Black Citizenship Project Launches

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#dontshootinmyname

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Dance Politics Oct 2nd-5th

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New Artist-in-Residence Job Openings!

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Department of Public Imagination Show & Tell

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Info Session July 8th: ExpressingBoston Public Art Fellowship

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ds4si website redesign art commission extended!

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Come to Upham's Corner Artist Announcement!

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Public Kitchen @ "Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)"

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DS4SI Black History Month Series 2014

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New Vision Lab video

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Join us to weigh in on Upham's Corner Art Commission!

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Public Kitchen III Coming!

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DS4SI's Kenneth Bailey @ Creative Time

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DS4SI's Vision Lab at Roots & Remedies...

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NCAA's Net Works and Maria Molteni knitting nets for hoops...

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Calling all artists!

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Week 2: STREET LAB: UPHAM'S

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The Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI) partners with communities, artists, and social justice practitioners to imagine, demonstrate, and collectively rebuild places to be more just and vibrant. Get in touch with us to inquire about prototyping a design, residencies or to hire us to run a creativity lab or other generative process for your organization, coalition or campaign.

For 20 years, DS4SI has been co-imagining new community infrastructures that center aesthetic justice. From our embodied design practices like Public Kitchen, Dance Court, Design Gym, inPUBLIC and Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs), to our Ideas—Arrangements—Effects framework, we’ve been laying the groundwork for engaging BIPOC communities in co-creating an ecology of new arrangements that can change social life.”

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