Walking south along Wabash Avenue to the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College in Chicago, passersby are immediately struck by oversized bold, black lettering: You Are A(nti) Racist. These forceful words are the title of a new exhibition conceived by Design as Protest, now known as the DAP Collective (on view through April 21).
Initially started in 2015 by the New Orleans-based architect and design justice promoter Bryan Lee, Jr., DAP was later relaunched with the aid of design activist De Nichols in August 2020, in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. The collective is made up of BIPOC designers from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. At Columbia College, DAP’s curatorial team has created a provocative exhibition drawing upon the title—with the second part of the word "A(nti)" grayed out—to force visitors to consider: Are You A Racist or Are You Anti Racist? This title is followed by three taglines: “Challenge Power,” “Dismantle Systems,” and “Design a Justice World.”
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