Shana Agid
Biographic Data
| ID | 808038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shana Agid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shana |
| FAMILY NAME | Agid |
| SIGNATURE | AGID S |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Visual Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1125-7621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What It Means to Be Useful
Introduction
Geographies, Systems, Spaces, and Pictures
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMelissa BurchMelissa Burch [email protected] BurrowesNicole Burrowes [email protected] LeBronMarisol LeBron [email protected] OkechukwuAmaka Okechukwu [email protected] RittnerJennifer Rittner [email protected] Justice + Designing SpacesDesigning Justice + Designing Spaces https://designingjustice.org/Paula AustinShana Agid [email protected] AgidPaula …
Designing against Infrastructures of Harm
How What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine
The notion that policing and incarceration are permanent and necessary, if in need of reform or more “humane” design, guides contemporary practices of making in a range of design fields and, increasingly, designers’ forays into policy- and government service-making. These projects often take the form of spatial interventions and proposals for new jails, police stations, and, in some cases, the reorganization of the spaces around them. This articl…
Safekeeping [A Tear-Off Book]
Safekeeping [A Tear-Off Book] Shana Agid (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Shana Agid. Safekeeping [A Tear-Off Book], 2002–3, 2011 (installation and selected pages). Screenprint on sticker paper, perforated pages; 3 x 5.75 in. [End Page 222] Shana Agid Shana Agid is an artist/designer, teacher, writer, and activist whose work focuses on relationships of power and difference, particularly regarding sexuality, race, and gender in vis…
Worldmaking
This article argues for an active role for theory in designing, especially feminist theory and cultural studies, both as a means of theorizing design through the work of designers and as a means of reflecting on the complex contexts in which designing takes place and designs take hold. This has particular relevance in the participatory and user-centered frameworks increasingly favored in design practices and education. Changes in design methods, …
Introduction
Designing against Infrastructures of Harm
How What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine
The notion that policing and incarceration are permanent and necessary, if in need of reform or more “humane” design, guides contemporary practices of making in a range of design fields and, increasingly, designers’ forays into policy- and government service-making. These projects often take the form of spatial interventions and proposals for new jails, police stations, and, in some cases, the reorganization of the spaces around them. This articl…
Worldmaking
This article argues for an active role for theory in designing, especially feminist theory and cultural studies, both as a means of theorizing design through the work of designers and as a means of reflecting on the complex contexts in which designing takes place and designs take hold. This has particular relevance in the participatory and user-centered frameworks increasingly favored in design practices and education. Changes in design methods, …
Introduction
Worldmaking
This article argues for an active role for theory in designing, especially feminist theory and cultural studies, both as a means of theorizing design through the work of designers and as a means of reflecting on the complex contexts in which designing takes place and designs take hold. This has particular relevance in the participatory and user-centered frameworks increasingly favored in design practices and education. Changes in design methods, …
Introduction
Safekeeping [A Tear-Off Book]
Safekeeping [A Tear-Off Book] Shana Agid (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Shana Agid. Safekeeping [A Tear-Off Book], 2002–3, 2011 (installation and selected pages). Screenprint on sticker paper, perforated pages; 3 x 5.75 in. [End Page 222] Shana Agid Shana Agid is an artist/designer, teacher, writer, and activist whose work focuses on relationships of power and difference, particularly regarding sexuality, race, and gender in vis…
How What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine
The notion that policing and incarceration are permanent and necessary, if in need of reform or more “humane” design, guides contemporary practices of making in a range of design fields and, increasingly, designers’ forays into policy- and government service-making. These projects often take the form of spatial interventions and proposals for new jails, police stations, and, in some cases, the reorganization of the spaces around them. This articl…
Geographies, Systems, Spaces, and Pictures
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMelissa BurchMelissa Burch [email protected] BurrowesNicole Burrowes [email protected] LeBronMarisol LeBron [email protected] OkechukwuAmaka Okechukwu [email protected] RittnerJennifer Rittner [email protected] Justice + Designing SpacesDesigning Justice + Designing Spaces https://designingjustice.org/Paula AustinShana Agid [email protected] AgidPaula …
Designing against Infrastructures of Harm
What It Means to Be Useful
Introduction
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (2 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Harm (2 works) · History (2 works)