Reverberations:
Lineages in Design History
Reverberations: Lineages in Design History transforms the gallery into an expansive educational space, reimagining design history to feature Indigenous, Black, and People of Color designers and cultural figures.
Curated by: Brian Johnson and Silas Munro
Curatorial advisors: Randa Hadi, Lisa Maione, and Ramon Tejada
Designed by: Randa Hadi, Edgar Casarin, and Sadeem Yacoub
Images: Courtesy of the Ford Foundation Gallery, Photo: Sebastian Bach
Reverberations transforms the gallery into an expansive educational space, reimagining design history to feature Indigenous, Black, and People of Color (IBPOC) designers and cultural figures. With a dazzling assemblage of historical and contemporary works of art and design by over fifty artists, Reverberations questions the narrative of design tradition as a single dominant line. Reflecting on rich ancestries that reverberate across epochs, alphabets and graphic languages transmit contours of wisdom across cultures. Multidimensional maps reveal layers of experience and counter colonial flattening and erasures. Visual strategies deployed by Black designers are reinforced as motifs in present-day avant-garde data visualizations. And intricate Indigenous traditions of beadwork and textile art weave ancestral knowledge into the future.