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How do you make policy-making and civic engagement relatable to everybody who needs that information? This question guided today’s guests Jen Wick and Alex Chiu as they created a zine for the City of Portland’s Office of Community & Civic Life called This is Your Portland. In this conversation, Jen & Alex share details about that zine and their upcoming presentation for Design Week Portland 2020, Civics & Art: Why Bureaucracy Needs Good Design. They also talk about the impact zines had on them from their early creative years as they discovered a world of culture, community, and belonging. From the responsibility of doing public work to the importance of listening to and learning from other people, Jen and Alex have a lot to say about the power present in the quick, cheap, and highly personal medium that is the zine. They also answer the question about what we can learn from punk rock in a time of rebellion. I hope that by the end of this interview, you will want to make your very own zine.
Design Week Portland 2020 Interviews:
- “Agencies of Change” with Zipporah Vannata (GWTW392)
- “Reimagining School with Design” with Erin Bray (GWTW396)
Show Links
- Design Week Portland 2020
- The City of Portland Office of Community & Civic Life
- Civics & Art: Why Bureaucracy Needs Good Design
- Fort Wick
- Alex Chiu
- @artbyalexchiu on Instagram
- Kate Bingaman-Burt
- Austin Kleon
- Sassy Magazine
- Sparkplug Comics
- Chris Cilla
- Tim Goodyear
- Independent Publishing Resource Center
- Oregon Humanities
- Visible
- The On Being Project
- The On Being Project: Resmaa Menakem
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
- Democracy Now!
- The New York Times Podcast
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