COLAB Interview

I was recently invited to give a talk on socially conscious design & my Skull-A-Day project at COLAB at Syracuse University. COLAB is a wonderfully creative collaborative design program run by my friend Chris McCray which "was created to bring together students and faculty from various disciplines, with diverse skills and experiences, to learn how to approach problems collaboratively and share multiple perspectives while working toward creative solutions." Good stuff. As part of my visit I was interviewed by a student and the end result has just been posted online...


Noah Scalin for COLAB from COLAB on Vimeo.

I was also asked some more fun questions for their Off The Cuff series, and the answers are here...


Off the Cuff: Noah Scalin from COLAB on Vimeo.

Groundswell Journal #1: Crisis Folklore

Our friends at Groundswell Collective have just released the first issue of their printed journal! It focuses on what they call "Crisis Folklore"...

How we imagine future stories that describe our current time period can give us an alternative glimpse of the cultures we are shaping in the here-and-now. To get outside of the modes of analysis we typically offer, we look for the future storytellers, asking what are the tales of resistance in the post-crash era? Crisis being a daily reality, where do we locate our collective daydreams? Can we accurately envision these future stories for ourselves and for others?
Topics include:

• Counter-cultural or resistant reworkings of contemporary problems
• Shifts in the language of dissent, movement, and movements
• Sociological mis/understandings of shifts in folklore in response to crisis
• Possibilities for subversion, especially via art
• Imagined criticisms, counter-hegemonic creation myths, forecasted histories, pre-emptive sense-making, etc.

Including offerings from Real Estate for Ransom, Team Colors, Basekamp, Chris Kennedy, and other influential authors yet to be announced.

Get your issue directly from Groundswell or find out where to buy a copy in person HERE.