Author: Aakanksha Mhapsekar

“What is it that would allow the city to incentivize green roofs on more public spaces and green or some private spaces that might serve a different kind of community?”

“We did a really good job of touching on social justice themes that are maybe sometimes overlooked in the larger discussion because there are certain keywords or initiatives that people go to when they think about social justice.”

“We always say this week we’ve seen friendships happen over and over again and we’ve seen intellectual sparks and inspiration, just things happening between people in the classroom in front of our eyes all the time.”

“Rather than entering as designers or design students kind of trained in different modes of observation and prototyping, what does it looks like to start with something where you acknowledge all the things you don’t know, or you don’t prioritize your own expertise yet?”

“The thing about artistic practice is that you can’t fake it. You can’t fake your body being on stage; it’s irreducible. I’ve come to really appreciate embodied forms of practice – the transaction that happens between a performer and an audience member – as a form of radical truth-telling and truth-making.”