• New York Public Library: Designing Equity into the Census

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    NYPL-Designing-Equity-Into-The-Census

    PARTNER: New York Public Library

    GOAL: Design solutions to make the U.S. 2020 census more easily accessible and intuitive to marginalized New Yorkers

    APPROACH: MFA Transdisciplinary Design students were divided into teams, each of which created its own census interventions

    FORMAT: Studio course

    OUTCOME: This project studio was dedicated to coming up with ways to promote participation in the census by New York’s marginalized populations. The studio, taught by David Carroll, an associate professor of media design, and Samuel Haddix, an adjunct professor at Parsons, was also aimed at finding ways for these groups to take part without putting themselves at risk in these politically fraught times. One student team developed a prototype for a “census report card” and continued working on this project in hopes of attracting interest for its use for the 2020 census. With the assistance of The New School’s Digital Equity Lab, the students conducted talks with representatives of the New York Public Library system to determine whether their project could be used for the census.

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