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Dr. Audra Buck-Coleman

Designer, Educator, Author & Social Design Researcher

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Social Design Work

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:
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:
Black Women: Image & Perception in Popular Culture

A woman looks at the timeline

This exhibit addresses the stereotypes that our culture places on Black women, highlights women who defy these characterizations and prompts visitors to consider ways to thwart these stereotypes.

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.

Teaching:
InDEFYnable

A group of students around a pillar showing images of other students.

InDEFYnable: Stand Together, Struggle Together was an event to promote APA students’ coexisting cultural and individual identities.

Teaching:
Sticks + Stones 2010: Culture, Migration and Representation

Onlookers at the Sticks and Stones exhibit

Students from six international universities explored ways graphic design perpetuates and can negate stereotypes. Their work culminated in an exhibit at the DesignTransfer Gallery in Berlin, Germany.

Teaching:
Sticks + Stones 2006: A Collaborative Exchange Exploring Labeling and Stereotyping

The entrance to the Sticks + Stones exhibit. Shows a poster with a face.

Sticks + Stones: A Collaborative Exchange Exploring Labeling and Stereotyping was a multi-university collaboration that prompts students to explore interpersonal and intercultural issues with others diverse in ethnicity, religious practice, heritage, gender, and sexual orientation.

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Recent Posts

  • Redefine/ABLE catalog now available
  • Presenting at the SEGD Academic Summit
  • New writing published on Paul Orselli’s blog
  • Presenting at MW21
  • Read more about Sticks + Stones

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