{"id":610368,"date":"2023-03-01T09:26:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T12:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistas.uc.cl\/?post_type=tnc_col_610352_item&#038;p=610368"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T12:26:13","slug":"project-review-making-room-for-abolition-by-lauren-williams","status":"publish","type":"tnc_col_610352_item","link":"https:\/\/revistas.uc.cl\/en\/disena\/project-review-making-room-for-abolition-by-lauren-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Review: \u2018Making Room for Abolition\u2019, by Lauren Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This review positions Lauren Williams\u2019 installation \u2018Making Room for Abolition\u2019, shown in \u2018Monolith\u2019 at Red Bull Arts in Detroit, as a speculative design project that presents a two-fold critique: one directed at US society and the other, at speculative design itself. As a discourse and practice, speculative design offers a model for designing in socially-oriented, post-capitalist contexts, but it has yet to fully unmoor itself from colonialist ideology. I present common critiques of speculative design\u2014specifically: the lack of attention to race- and class-based struggles, the assumption that time is absolute, and its stance that preferable futures must be plausible\u2014to show how Williams addresses these shortcomings while centering Black experiences and imagination in a dream of abolitionist futures.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-610368","tnc_col_610352_item","type-tnc_col_610352_item","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Portal de Revistas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/revistas.uc.cl\/en\/disena\/project-review-making-room-for-abolition-by-lauren-williams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Project Review: \u2018Making Room for Abolition\u2019, by Lauren Williams - Portal de Revistas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This review positions Lauren Williams\u2019 installation \u2018Making Room for Abolition\u2019, shown in \u2018Monolith\u2019 at Red Bull Arts in Detroit, as a speculative design project that presents a two-fold critique: one directed at US society and the other, at speculative design itself. 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