Practice 3 - Cultural Diversity
Group 2 - Module B
Team 1
Eeske Kuipers

 MANIFESTO

The visual language used in discussions of race:
should include empathy.
should be used to listen and reply, not shouted, not whispered.
should never refer to whiteness as default.
it should for the audience to be engaged.

RESEARCH

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Visually calm, spoken. Creates space for listening.

Design elements:
space for listening
revealing the invisible (system/code)
grey area (no good/bad binary)
physically deconstructing the system

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What's behind what we see? uncovering the system, the codes, the masks, the truth

Life as a game - football game, with yellow and red cards to categorise Trump's actions

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Illustrations on explaining white privilege

Life as a race with less obstacles

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Reframing the news. Understanding the impact of the narrative

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Research by:

Field theory - Bourdieu

Constructing Racial Rhetoric: Media Depictions of Harm in Heavy Metal and Rap Music
- Binder

"they are too afraid to talk about it but we aren't so that makes us better"

idea:
design pillows to law on to create a "comfortable place to have a discussion"

(extra) (have the lights turn off and the fabrics reveal the "reality" of the conversation and real examples of the consequences of white privilege - racism etc and these systems being kept in place)

data is not racist

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How the white person reacts in a conversation about race:
- sensitive, scared
- defensive
- or superior because of taking part in it at all

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therefore, the white person acts like:
a fragile, soft, human. Who needs to be protected and considered as a child when talking to.

Reproduction
- loop

some connected concepts:

To not avoid dealing with the topic of race within design and art, and to learn and understand better how discuss race within artistic works.

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Visual/physical associations with the term colonial white (and perhaps other definitions regarding white privilege, white supremacy and racism)

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VISUAL examples

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Modifying/shaping text+book

revealing the hidden system

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Filtering/editing/removing the unnecessary

(pinterest inspiration for publications and physical ways of illustrating our concepts)

Highlighting the differences

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illustration data and words while keeping the content the same

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idea:
using dadaism techniques? bringing the 'ordinary' to a place where it can be looked at through many different perspectives. eg. the experiences of a white person.

Cultural Theory of prejudice

- Emory Bogardus studied the concept 'social distance' to gauge how close or distant people feel in relation to members of various racial and ethnic categories. He concluded that such attitudes are culturally normative.

- Theodore W. Adorno claimed that extreme prejudice was a personality trait of particular individuals. People who displayed strong prejudice towards one minority were usually intolerant of all minorities. These people exhibit authoritarian personalities, which also envision moral issues as matters of right and wrong and look upon society as naturally competitive and hierarchical - with a dominant group on top (considered as 'better') and a 'weaker' group being dominated. In contrast, people who were found tolerant towards one minority were likely to be accepting of all.

When prejudice is widespread, is this a group of people with authoritarian personalities? or are we simply living in a 'culture of prejudice?'

reference: Sociology, a global introduction - Macionis & Plummer (2012)

Habitus

Cultural reproduction only involves that of the dominant class. Habitus is a set of classifications, perceptions, ways of talking, moving and generally carrying oneself, that are passed on by generations. Bourdieu argues that schools only pick up on the habitus of the most powerful (social) classes, the dominant culture. He argues that the educational system has systematic biases against working class knowledge and skills.
Social reproduction: the maintenance of power and privilege between social classes from one generation to the next.
Cultural reproduction: the process by which a society transmits dominant knowledge from one generation to another.

- Macionis & Plummer (2012)

Symbolic dominance

Symbolic dominance means the expertise of dominance through culture and its mystification. symbols and meanings organise our life and much class conflict is over these very symbols, languages and meanings.

- Macionis & Plummer (2012)

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PUBLICATION PROPOSAL

A poster showing several (3) example, using the case studies, of:

- everyday life where a black person encounters a white person in denial or disbelief.

or
- situations where a black person is denied the same rights as a white person

or
- situations of white privelege.


Where the poster is printed with the 3d blue and red foil effect. So that when you put on the glasses with red and blue foil, you see a new illustration.

A way to use these glasses to show the 'hidden' system of reproduction within white people.

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Maybe make illustrations where the white person is symbolised through a fluffy toy aka soft/fragile person. ???

The visual language used in discussions of race:
should include empathy.
should be used to listen and reply, not shouted, not whispered.
should never refer to whiteness as default.
forces audience to be engaged.
where there is space for response
should not be about our feelings

Design elements:
space for listening
revealing the invisible (system/code)
grey area (no good/bad binary)
physically deconstructing the system

a physical reminder
- the easy part is acknowledging it - the hard part is checking yourself
- Apple Watch: this is your privilege showing!
- yes I have privilege and I do forget
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visual language:
- stereotypical visuals on black and white people

"we're trying to have the right conversation about race" - "but is there a right about race?"

Layered piece using transparency

- including quotes - thoughts - things we've talked about that we find relevant on this conversation
- using either thin paper - napkins - thin fabric
- optional: using coloured foil - eg. glasses to visualise the concept of privilege to

performative presentation:

taking away the layers of the napkins, laying them down. "Here is our conversation on race during these weeks" - pls engage if you want to.
"okay this is our project - move it, adjust it however you want"   Asking the class to each grab one to then discuss.

introduction:
should include the tone of "I'm privileged and yes I forget about it"

PROCESS

Thoughts in Meeting - Thursday 30/09

Tests with red foil and printing on napkins

TESTING

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RESEARCH on TYPOGRAPHY

pointing out asian stereotypical typography, he checked websites like dafont (free and used by many) and the names of fonts that were:

Making

More Visual Research

instagram:
colourful, nice, soft, flowery posts on racism to educate people through social media.

Does it help when the message is surrounded by flowers or do you get distracted because it has bright colours?

75B Graphic design studio

systems and abstract structures and shapes

--> instagram posts

Crossing out elements