Design and Solidarity

Marisa Morán Jahn is an artist, filmmaker, and Sundance Fellow who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and Parsons/The New School, where she is the associate director of integrated design. Artforum has praised her work as “exemplifying the possibilities of art as social practice.”Rafi Segal is an architect and associate professor of architecture and urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current work focuses on how emerging forms of sharing and collectivity affect the design of buildings and cities.

• Design Solidarity, by Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi SegalConversations: On the Commons, by Michael HardtOn Self-Determination in a World Where Many Worlds Fit, by Arturo EscobarOn Solidarity and Political Emancipation, by Jessica Gordon NembhardOn Labor and Cooperatives, by Trebor ScholzOn Mutual Aid Societies and Digital-First Organizing, by Greg LindsayOn Digital Platforms in Informal Economies, by Mercedes BidartOn Mutualism and Care, by Ai-jen PooArchitectures for New Collectives, by Rafi SegalCreation as Counterpower, by Marisa Morán JahnCarehaus: Designing for Care, by Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi SegalAcknowledgmentsAbout the Authors and ContributorsIndex

Design and Solidarity is a must read for anyone who cares about care, mutuality, solidarity, collaboration, and capitalist alternatives. The conversations, essays, and pictures move from innovative theory to inspiring practice, all in a small and readable package. I will be carrying it with me.