HOW CAN WE AMPLIFY OUR COLLECTIVE COURAGE?
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We are an artistic research and development outfit for the
improvement of civil society and everyday life.
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.
In a moment shaped by fear, urgency, and attempts to instill division, we believe our power grows when we join together in collective action.
By making visible traces of our courage in public, through acts both massive and mundane, we connect with our commitment to move forward in solidarity.
Momentum Lab is a new DS4SI project that brings neighbors, organizers, artists, youth, and community groups into a shared space to co-design ways of meeting this moment. Through collective making: posters, zines, stencils, buttons, performance, storytelling, and more, we generate daily proof of life, solidarity, resistance, and imagination.
Momentum Lab is open every Wednesday and Thursday at 6pm at Prototype Lab, 545 Columbia Road, Dorchester.
This conversation, titled “Who Is the State For? Beyond the Duopoly,” is a thought-provoking and engaging discussion featuring Steph Guilloud of Project South and organizer and activist Rachel Herzing, moderated by DS4SI's co-founder Kenneth Bailey. It was held over Zoom and live-streamed from the Momentum Lab in Dorchester, MA, on February 16, 2026.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
SPRING 2026
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Design Gym: Momentum Lab
Wednesdays & Thursdays @ 6PM
Location
DS4SI Prototype Lab
545 Columbia Road
Dorchester, MA
We believe that another
everyday life is possible.
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.”
Our Work
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Our Writings
Our writings stand at the forefront of social intervention and design, from a collection of collaborators over the years.
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Prototype Lab
Our writings stand at the forefront of social intervention and design, from a collection of collaborators over the years.
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Design Gym
Design Gym is where designers go to workout their design muscles.
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Interventions
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