OUR PROJECTS
2025
| The Endangered Language Alliance (ELA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2010 to document and support endangered languages across the New York Metropolitan Area - one of the most linguistically diverse urban regions in the world, with over 640 languages reported. To support the Endangered Language Alliance’s ongoing work promoting the visibility and preservation of Tu’un Savi (Mixtec), this project involved co-facilitating a series of oral storytelling and illustration workshops, in which mothers told family stories in Tu’un Savi, while their children listened, translated, and illustrated them. Collaborators for this project include a group of mothers and their children, ELA founder Daniel Kaufman, Prof. Claudia Tomateo and students of the MS Design & Urban Ecologies program. Together, we produced twelve trilingual storybooks to support the visualization and resurgence of the stories from these lands. more here |
2025
| Mujeres en Movimiento (MeM) is a grassroots collective of Spanish-speaking immigrant women that use Balioterapia - dance therapy - as a practice for healing and organizing. As part of the MS Design & Urban Ecologies Studio, our initial work with MeM centered around growing their internal design capacity. This involved co-design workshops to formalize visual identity, developing their logo, color palette, and branded templates to support their organising work. Our solidarity with the collective grew from there. The next year, the following cohort of the MS Design & Urban Ecologies developed a neighbourhood bike tour, supported a Día de Muertos celebration, and are in the process of developing an audiovisual documentary. more here |
| High Amazon region of so-called Peru 2024-ongoing |
| For more than 35 years, the non-governmental organiszations, Andean Project for Peasant Technologies (PRATEC) and Waman Wasi, have worked with diverse Indigenous communities in the Amazon region of so-called Peru. This project focuses on their methodology for creating communal calendars: spatial-temporal visualizations of biocultural activities carried out by members of Quechua communities. These calendars translate oral land-based knowledges into visual forms. more here |