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Hope you are well.

This typically banal opener seems to carry more weight these days. The unresting series of events of COVID-19 and George Flloyd’s death have catalyzed today’s society to expose systemic issues - of healthcare as well as socio-economical, racial, political divides throughout our everyday lives. So, we really hope that you are well in these times.

We still hope these tumultuous months will provide a unique opportunity for reflection on our role as designers. We also hope that our collective reflection will shape the next generation of thinkers - across diverse backgrounds and perspectives to address issues that are widely pertinent today.

In these next series of posts, the Journal will ask for your contributions - thoughts, questions, perspectives on the current situation. What have you been going through - as a student, faculty, staff, or alumni? How have you been coping with the current situation?

Please feel free to share one-liner comments, images, writings, or of any other sharable medium that deliver your perspectives, thoughts, and questions.

Send via email bacjournal@the-bac.edu or via Instagram DM @baclogue!

Here are some questions to get started as well. We will update this list as additional food for thought comes through:

  • What have you been going through? Perhaps personally?

  • How are you coping with the current situation?

  • What has changed?

  • What has stayed the same?

  • What have you noticed from the world in the recently?

  • How could the recent events be a catalyst for positive change?

  • How could designers take a stance in face of racism and/or the pandemic?

  • How will you emerge from today’s circumstances?

Final Reviews Week = time for #conversation #dialogue #feedback #inclusion #responsible_liberty
How would you enable conversation, dialogue, discourse at the BAC through a print (or digital) publication? Final Reviews at #criticaldiscourse #sp18
This Wednesday, 4-7pm, at the Beehive. An open review on publication iterations put together by your friends and colleagues at the BAC. Come and join on a dialogue on academic journals and frameworks for platforms of discussion. #criticaldiscourse
Happening Wednesday, April 25th, 6pm at the Loft! Join to discuss FEEDBACK as we approach finals week. #conversationattheloft #feedback
Preview - Works in progress. Please join Wednesday, May 2nd 4pm at the Beehive to see publication iteration efforts being put together by your fellow colleagues #criticaldiscourse
Keep them coming! Drop in your #postloft postcard at our mailboxes, located on the first floors of 320 Newbury and 951 Boylston
Join us on Friday, April 13th, 7pm at the Beehive for a conversation with Rahel Shawl, Founder of Raas Architects, on the topic of Gender and Inclusion. #conversationattheloft. Please dm for topics that you’d like to see arise! Also collecting
Currently in development. Publication frameworks are explored to question notions of curation, content, audience, and matter in the context of the BAC. #criticaldiscourse @marijo0306
Keep those thoughts coming. Send notes on current projects, class work, and extracurricular explorations via PostLoft. Mailboxes on the first floor of 320 Newbury and 951 Boylston. #postloft
Join us for the second installment of the Conversation at the Loft! We will discuss issues on responsible liberty and its relation to your design learning. Happening Wednesday, April 4th, 6pm at the Loft #criticaldiscourse #conversationattheloft
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