Kenneth Bailey
Co-founder, Design Studio for Social Intervention
"Imagining Relational Infrastructures "
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
6 pm - 7:30 pm
Virtual event via zoom
AIA continuing education credits available (1 LU/HSW)
In presenting "Imagining Relational Infrastructure," Kenneth Bailey, co-founder of the Design Studio for Social Intervention, considers communities as essential infrastructures. Infrastructures can be relational; they can be about improving the ways in which communities work and play together to improve quality of public life. New infrastructures can be co-designed, built, and managed by communities. Infrastructure can even be rules and or procedures for how things go together. And those who work as cultural, spatial, technological mixologists may offer some practical suggestions for realignments with enormous impacts relative to their cost. Reimagining relational infrastructure to nourish an imagination about community and family infrastructures becomes essential.
Biography
Kenneth Bailey is the co-founder of the Design Studio for Social Intervention
Kenneth Bailey is the co-founder of the Design Studio for Social Intervention. His interests focus on the research and development of design tools for marginalized communities to address complex social issues. With over three decades of experience in community practice, Bailey brings a unique perspective on the ethics of design in relation to community engagement, the arts and cultural action. Projects he has produced at ds4si include Action Lab (2012- 2014), Public Kitchen (2011-2018), Social Emergency Response Center (SERC, 2017), People’s Redevelopment Authority (2018) and inPUBLIC (2019). Bailey was recently a Visiting Scholar in collaboration with University of Tasmania and also a founding member of Theatrum Mundi NYC with Richard Sennett. His new book (co-authored with DS4SI) is entitled “Ideas—Arrangements--Effects: Systems Design and Social Justice” (Minor Compositions, 2020). And he received his MFA in Public Action from Bennington College in 2021.
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