Posts in Design
Video: Building the Beloved Community Through Trauma-Informed Design | MLK Day Panel Conversation with Taubman College (UMich)

De speaks as a panelist for the 2021 MLK Symposium: Building the Beloved Community Through Trauma-Informed Design, presented by the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Read More
Sick and Tired: Reflections on Design, Illness, and the Fight for Racial Justice

Designer and social worker, De Nichols, capstoned Design Futures Forum with a reflective talk about sustaining personal and collective well-being in the fight for racial healing and justice in the United States. De shared lessons from civil rights leaders and fused insights from her personal challenges of navigating design activism with a chronic illness. By introducing a framework to assess the collective trauma in the built environment, De proposed a set of provocations that designers might consider as they design toward a more just and healthy future.

Read More
De Nichols is a 2020 Monument Lab Transnational Fellow

Mallory Nezam, De Nichols, and Damon Davis are the artists and designers of MADAD, a collective from St. Louis, MO, selected for the 2020 corhort of Monument Lab’s Transnational Fellowship. MADAD works to reimagine how joy, justice, and interactivity improve public spaces and cultural experiences in St. Louis.

Read More
Chouteau Greenway Architecture Magazine's Progressive Architecture Award

The Chouteau Greenway is one of six North American projects to earn Architecture Magazine’s 67th Annual Progressive Architecture Award. Each year, its panel of jurors select works within the built environment that “exemplify progress by using design to draw connections between individual users and the communities around them.”

Read More
Podcast: Entrepreneurially Thinking

De joins the team at Entrepreneurially Thinking podcast to speak about social challenges that matter to her and how her team at Civic Creatives uses design and creative organizing to bring awareness to these issues. Listen to the conversation.

Read More
Sept 25: World Interaction Design Day

Join Adobe and designers across the globe for World Interaction Design Day (IxDD), a global celebration of interaction design’s ability to improve the human condition. On Tuesday, September 25, the community will come together through activities and events taking place around the globe that showcase the diverse ways interaction design impacts everyday life.

Read More