Dr. Audra Buck-Coleman

Designer, Educator, Author & Social Design Researcher

Dr. Audra Buck-Coleman is an author, educator, designer, and researcher.

Dr. Buck-Coleman (she/her) leverages her degrees in journalism, design, and sociology to research issues of culture, racial and social inequality, identity, social psychology, and social movements, with a focus on the ways art and design perpetuate and can potentially undermine stereotypes and bias.

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Dr. Audra Buck-Coleman giving a lecture and smiling.
Photo by Lance Curry
180+ Co-PIs and collaborators
10MM Budget dollars managed
50+ Publications and presentations

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Teaching:
BMORE Than The Story
Students in red t-shirts standing below a sculpture of a vulture that has a camera for a head.
Students attending a public high school in Freddie Gray’s neighborhood collaborated with University of Maryland design students on an exhibition about the 2015 Baltimore Uprising, Gray’s death, structural violence, police brutality, and related issues.
Teaching:
Redefine/ABLE
Screengrab from the Second Life installation. Sixteen human-looking avatars are standing in the illustrated room. Introductory information about Redefine/ABLE is on the main panel closest to tour leader, David London. Nine large wooden-framed panels with exhibition information are posted around the space.
University of Maryland students explored how physical and digital museum spaces can be more inclusive and accessible and how design might interrogate ideas of “normal” and ableism.
Teaching:
Nations of Resilience
Students looking at blacklight responsive posters.
University of Maryland students collaborated with Native students to create this exhibit, which spotlights the challenges and successes of U.S. Native American populations.

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