Tuesday
Imagination and Disavowal
“Exposition: Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning?,” in Disavowal, electronic edition, by Alenka Zupančič, Theory Redux (Polity Press, 2024).
Ruha Benjamin, Imagination: A Manifesto (W.W. Norton & Company, 2024).
“Story-Based Strategy 101,” Center for Story-Based Strategy, https://commonslibrary.org/story-based-strategy-101/.
In-class activities
Indigenous Futurism Model-Making Competition
Thursday
The Entangled Origins of Race and Data
Lauren Klein, “Every Datapoint a Person,” in Data by Design (MIT, 2024), https://dataxdesign.io/chapters/description.
Aubrey Clayton, “How Eugenics Shaped Statistics,” Nautilus, October 27, 2020.
In-class activities
Take the group formation quiz to form your groups for the data storytelling project