Sure — your house might beat the pants off your neighbors’. But let’s talk real-world metrics: How woke was the system that led to its erection?
As we continue to learn, there’s no area where social justice can’t prevail.
This is the spirit of ascendancy.
At the University of Minnesota, they’re taking wrecking balls to structural racism.
The school’s placed job ads to Build Back Better.
“Several openings,” UM’s website announces, are “centered in Design Justice.”
Apart from architecture, other fields are available for renovation such as product design, interior design, graphic design, and product design.
If you are a professor looking for a job, the following philosophy might be worth your consideration:
Design Justice, a brand new initiative in the College of Design, seeks to provide policy and space that supports the inclusion and retention of Black and Indigenous peoples of color (BIPOC), as well as communities historically underinvested.
So if you’re interested in helping all people but white ones, virtue can be yours — courtesy of the “Collective.”
Design Justice is supported in part by the Collective. This group includes individuals representing all disciplines of design. These people are committed to antiracism and decolonized education, as well as liberation for communities that have historically been neglected, both in the design academy and the industry.
It’s a good thing they’re decolonizing interior design — straight white Quaker-types have managed a stronghold for far too long.
Here’s more:
Scholarship, teaching, or service may include: antiracism; racial justice; racial dissimilarities, and/or race discrimination; power/privilege and/or bias, benefits to BIPOC, refugee, and immigrant populations, as well as environmental and social justice and/or any other form of study and countering systemic oppression.
The American vocabulary has only just recently included the concept of structural/systemic racism.
As far as I know, governments and corporations declared immediately that such a thing exists.
They’ve quickly instituted changes intended as a counterbalance, rather than making public the embedded mechanisms they’ve discovered and then simply removing them.
But that’s our apparent mode of attack, so see if you can assist:
Candidates who are successful in all positions must have the demonstrated talent, clear potential, and/or related scholarship that will allow them to help our BIPOC or other marginalized groups within their field. The Design Justice Collective is expanding with the hiring of clusters of faculty in a variety programs over two years.
Such positions are “100%-time academic year (9-month), tenured or tenure-track faculty” sorts that will be “supplemented by a generous start-up package to support advancement of scholarship and teaching that aligns with the tenure standards of the specific program.”
Some of you may not have considered the revolutionary needs within “Design Studio Pedagogy.” But a makeover of the arena appears a perfectly natural partner to all the other ways in which epiphanous achievements are improving the planet.
These are the cases:
Crash Test Dummies Test Gender Equality
Woke in the Water: Shark Advocates Call for an End to the Word ‘Attacks’ in Favor of ‘Interactions’
Colorado University Hosts Teacher Training to Fight the ‘White Supremacy’ of ‘Productivity’
Fish Fry: A Social Justice Slick with the Woke Naming of a Racism–Riddled Carp
Just in Time for Mother’s Day: The World Gets Its First Nonbinary-Named Insect
Man Identifying as Woman Sues Female Estheticians for Refusing to Give Him a Lady’s Genital Wax
Change — it comes by way of struggle.
And if you’re unimpressed by the yardage gained via University of Minnesota’s major move, the webpage proclaiming it offers a Land Acknowledgement:
University of Minnesota Twin Cities sits on traditional, ancestral, as well as contemporary Dakota People lands, which were given in Treaties of 1837/1851. Recognizing the complicated history of the land, we will honor the violence, displacement and settlement which brought us together, is our commitment.
It’s not the first time a school has said such a thing — and it’s more than the second time one’s subsequently done nothing about it:
Cornell University Announces It’s on Stolen Land During Commencement, Doesn’t Commence to Giving It Back
Still, UM’s writing words.
Perhaps these symbolic words can alter the universe.
We acknowledge the need to end the violence against missing and murdered Indigenous women– a local and national epidemic which can be traced back to the arrival of European colonizers across Turtle Island. We recognize and oppose the culture of anti-Black racism and white supremacy in our community that has resulted in the deaths of Jamar Clark and Philando Castile and many other Black Americans throughout this country. Black lives matter. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic, we stand in solidarity with the Hmong and Asian communities. Recognizing that words alone are insufficient, we will continue to fight for justice against the systemic racism which has led to injustices against Black and Indigenous peoples of color.
Yes.
Click here to apply for any of these new jobs.
And just so you know, the whole thing’s a cluster:
Members of the Design Justice Cluster will conduct teaching, research/scholarship/creative work, and/or service centered around the aforementioned areas of design justice… Members of the Cluster will participate in monthly meetings to engage in discussions and/or practices that support our mission and find support for projects you want to pursue, in order to combat racism and/or other forms of oppression.
Moving onward. Whiteless, but not woker.
-ALEX
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