assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression. Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards). Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change

Elizabeth Resnick

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Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change see you soon
assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards). Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression.
see you soon
Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change
assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards). Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression.
see you soon
assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change
Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression. Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards). Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change
Elizabeth Resnick Design, an independent Boston design studio was in operation from 1973–1996. Clients included: Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corporation, Store 24, Animal Rescue League of Boston, AIGA Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, and other area schools plus many local non-profit cultural organizations. Professor Resnick is a passionate design curator who has organized seven comprehensive design exhibitions: Within/Without: The Art of Russell Mills with Teresa Flavin (1991); Dutch Graphic Design: 1918–1945 with Alston Purvis (1994); The Art of the Poster: Makoto Saito with Jan Kubasiewicz (1999); The Graphic Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and The Environment 1965–2005 with Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Frank Baseman (2005); Graphic Intervention: Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010 with Javier Cortés (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012. The newest exhibition, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016) investigates gender-based inequalities deeply entrenched in every global society. Her publications include catalogs for the most of the exhibitions mentioned above plus Developing Citizen Designers, Bloomsbury Academic (2016), Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics, John Wiley & Sons Publishers (2003) and Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication, Prentice-Hall Publications”(1984). She is currently working on The Social Design Reader for Bloomsbury Academic. She has led poster workshops and lectured throughout the United States, Mexico, Ireland, England, China, South Korea, Iceland and Bolivia. Her posters have been accepted at the Warsaw Poster Biennial and the BICM Mexican Poster Biennial, and other invitational exhibitions.
assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change
see you soon
Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change
Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression. Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards).
Elizabeth Resnick Design, an independent Boston design studio was in operation from 1973–1996. Clients included: Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corporation, Store 24, Animal Rescue League of Boston, AIGA Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, and other area schools plus many local non-profit cultural organizations. Professor Resnick is a passionate design curator who has organized seven comprehensive design exhibitions: Within/Without: The Art of Russell Mills with Teresa Flavin (1991); Dutch Graphic Design: 1918–1945 with Alston Purvis (1994); The Art of the Poster: Makoto Saito with Jan Kubasiewicz (1999); The Graphic Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and The Environment 1965–2005 with Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Frank Baseman (2005); Graphic Intervention: Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010 with Javier Cortés (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012. The newest exhibition, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016) investigates gender-based inequalities deeply entrenched in every global society. Her publications include catalogs for the most of the exhibitions mentioned above plus Developing Citizen Designers, Bloomsbury Academic (2016), Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics, John Wiley & Sons Publishers (2003) and Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication, Prentice-Hall Publications”(1984). She is currently working on The Social Design Reader for Bloomsbury Academic. She has led poster workshops and lectured throughout the United States, Mexico, Ireland, England, China, South Korea, Iceland and Bolivia. Her posters have been accepted at the Warsaw Poster Biennial and the BICM Mexican Poster Biennial, and other invitational exhibitions.
assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change
Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change
Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression. Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards).
Elizabeth Resnick Design, an independent Boston design studio was in operation from 1973–1996. Clients included: Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corporation, Store 24, Animal Rescue League of Boston, AIGA Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, and other area schools plus many local non-profit cultural organizations. Professor Resnick is a passionate design curator who has organized seven comprehensive design exhibitions: Within/Without: The Art of Russell Mills with Teresa Flavin (1991); Dutch Graphic Design: 1918–1945 with Alston Purvis (1994); The Art of the Poster: Makoto Saito with Jan Kubasiewicz (1999); The Graphic Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and The Environment 1965–2005 with Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Frank Baseman (2005); Graphic Intervention: Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010 with Javier Cortés (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012. The newest exhibition, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016) investigates gender-based inequalities deeply entrenched in every global society. Her publications include catalogs for the most of the exhibitions mentioned above plus Developing Citizen Designers, Bloomsbury Academic (2016), Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics, John Wiley & Sons Publishers (2003) and Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication, Prentice-Hall Publications”(1984). She is currently working on The Social Design Reader for Bloomsbury Academic. She has led poster workshops and lectured throughout the United States, Mexico, Ireland, England, China, South Korea, Iceland and Bolivia. Her posters have been accepted at the Warsaw Poster Biennial and the BICM Mexican Poster Biennial, and other invitational exhibitions.
see you soon
assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change
Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression.
Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards). Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change
Elizabeth Resnick Design, an independent Boston design studio was in operation from 1973–1996. Clients included: Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corporation, Store 24, Animal Rescue League of Boston, AIGA Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, and other area schools plus many local non-profit cultural organizations. Professor Resnick is a passionate design curator who has organized seven comprehensive design exhibitions: Within/Without: The Art of Russell Mills with Teresa Flavin (1991); Dutch Graphic Design: 1918–1945 with Alston Purvis (1994); The Art of the Poster: Makoto Saito with Jan Kubasiewicz (1999); The Graphic Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and The Environment 1965–2005 with Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Frank Baseman (2005); Graphic Intervention: Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010 with Javier Cortés (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012. The newest exhibition, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016) investigates gender-based inequalities deeply entrenched in every global society. Her publications include catalogs for the most of the exhibitions mentioned above plus Developing Citizen Designers, Bloomsbury Academic (2016), Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics, John Wiley & Sons Publishers (2003) and Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication, Prentice-Hall Publications”(1984). She is currently working on The Social Design Reader for Bloomsbury Academic. She has led poster workshops and lectured throughout the United States, Mexico, Ireland, England, China, South Korea, Iceland and Bolivia. Her posters have been accepted at the Warsaw Poster Biennial and the BICM Mexican Poster Biennial, and other invitational exhibitions.
assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards).
see you soon
Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression.
Elizabeth Resnick Design, an independent Boston design studio was in operation from 1973–1996. Clients included: Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corporation, Store 24, Animal Rescue League of Boston, AIGA Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, and other area schools plus many local non-profit cultural organizations. Professor Resnick is a passionate design curator who has organized seven comprehensive design exhibitions: Within/Without: The Art of Russell Mills with Teresa Flavin (1991); Dutch Graphic Design: 1918–1945 with Alston Purvis (1994); The Art of the Poster: Makoto Saito with Jan Kubasiewicz (1999); The Graphic Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and The Environment 1965–2005 with Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Frank Baseman (2005); Graphic Intervention: Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010 with Javier Cortés (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012. The newest exhibition, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016) investigates gender-based inequalities deeply entrenched in every global society. Her publications include catalogs for the most of the exhibitions mentioned above plus Developing Citizen Designers, Bloomsbury Academic (2016), Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics, John Wiley & Sons Publishers (2003) and Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication, Prentice-Hall Publications”(1984). She is currently working on The Social Design Reader for Bloomsbury Academic. She has led poster workshops and lectured throughout the United States, Mexico, Ireland, England, China, South Korea, Iceland and Bolivia. Her posters have been accepted at the Warsaw Poster Biennial and the BICM Mexican Poster Biennial, and other invitational exhibitions.
assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards).
Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression.
assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change
see you soon
Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression. Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards).
assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change
see you soon
Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression. Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards).
assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change
see you soon
Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression. Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards).
Lecture: 
The Curator as an Agent 
of Social Change
see you soon
Exhibitions can serve as a lightening rod to illuminate and broaden understanding of diverse human rights issues and movements past and present… Posters can become visible dissent. — Carol Wells Of all the delivery systems now available to explore purposeful ideas and artifacts, the exhibition format is the most immediate and effective means to tell our stories through a focused viewpoint. Unlike fine art, which is essentially about the form (the work’s intent, function and context are viewed through a formal lens), graphic design, in addition to its inherent formal considerations, is best scrutinized through the wider lens encompassing culture, commerce and the developing technologies. Exhibitions are also social acts and can be seen as one form of the social management of messages. The current popularity of exhibitions is due to the fact they help define and to transit to a specific community, ideas and values that are necessary for that group to maintain its self-image. Acting on this conviction, I have organized and curated four socio-political poster exhibition ‘narratives’ from 2005 to the present. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005); Graphic Intervention: International Posters for AIDS Awareness (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital World (2013) and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016). This presentation will focus on these four particular opportunities to give voice to disenfranchised communities and their activists working toward the goal of social change. I have personally gained invaluable experience in working on these exhibition projects. This has lead to my firm belief that graphic design is an important artistic and cultural form, and as such, it should be made available and accessible to our students, to our professional communities and to the greater public who benefit by exposure to all forms of creative expression. Workshop: 
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Designing posters as agency for social change Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society.... The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place. This quote from designer Victor Papanek’s 1971 book, Design for the Real World, has never rung truer. Design students and young design professionals should focus their creative talents on social issues during their formative years to ensure that these ideals will carry into their professional life. Graphic designers, because of their visual art training, possess the strategic tools to create memorable messages. They should be encouraged to use these skills for community and activist purposes, and so that they might significantly contribute to public service and non-profit organizations by conceiving and promoting their awareness campaigns for the good of the society at large. The workshop assignment will be to develop and design an awareness or advocacy poster, or series of related posters for any current political, economic, or cultural issue present within Poland today, or a political, economic, or cultural issue affecting the world today like Women’s Rights including gender-based Inequality, violence against women and/or discrimination against women. Your poster(s) could be distributed through a direct-mail campaign to a general or target audience and/or posted in area institutions such as libraries, colleges, government offices, public transportation systems in and on trains and buses, bus shelters, free-standing street kiosks, and highway systems (billboards).
assistant: Paulina Kowalska, Andrzej Bach workshop classroom: senate room, building A workshop dates: 24–26.04.2017, 9:00–17:00 lecture: 27.04.2017 15:00–15:30 The Curator as an Agent of Social Change