[community] Thu Oct 12: Immutable—Designing History, with Chris Lee

[Greg Van Alstyne]

Event invitation from my colleague, Ali Qadeer

Please join OCADU Graphic Design & Art Metropole as we present the book release:

Immutable—Designing History
with the author Chris Lee

Thursday, October 12 2023
6pm
OCAD University
100 McCaul St. room 230
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/723695551877

Immutable: Designing History outlines a thematic genealogy of the document—graphic design’s most banal genre—and its entanglement with statecraft and colonial(ism/ity). This is framed as a roughly 5,000 year chronology, imbricating the developments of money and writing from Mesopotamian clay tablets to distributed blockchain ledgers. Immutability figures as a design imperative and hermeneutic for considering securitization techniques (material, technological, homicidal, administrative) against the entropy of a document’s movement through space, time and dispute.

An overview presentation of the book will set the stage for a developing discussion. This event invites speculation and debate on the implications of centering the document in the narration of graphic design history on how we might think about who the designer is and what the designer does. Through the conversation, the hope is also to explore possibilities for challenging some of our assumptions as students, educators, researchers, and practitioners, as a starting point to imagining other ways of studying and doing design.

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Ali Shamas Qadeer | BA MFA
Associate Professor (he/him)
Graphic Design
Co-chair Grievance Committee OCAD FA

OCAD University
100 McCaul Street, Toronto, ON
Canada M5T 1W1

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