Featuring Guest Editor Rania Adwan, The Dissent Issue explores design practice as a revolutionary force to challenge institutional systems, from creative resistance to spatial justice. Featured topics include art and performance as a medium for protest, confronting systemic racism in architecture, and community-led advocacy in disability and care. This is the second issue under Unfold (formerly Design Museum Magazine). This publication will ship in July 2026. The Dissent Issue features: An excerpt from Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area by Rae Alexandra of KQED; A conversation with Guest Editor Rania Adwan and Sabiha Basrai—designer, organizer, and co-owner of Design ActionCollective—about twenty years at the intersection of graphicdesign and social justice; The visual strategies and graphic histories of social movements by Melissa Casburn; The role of art and design as levers of political resistance by Nick Cheney of Blackfish Gallery; Care as dissent, wherein individuals become “positive deviants” within existing systems by Rachael Dietkus; The value of disagreement for driving fresh perspectives, stronger bonds, and sharper decision-making by Zoe Donaldson of The Ready; A digital platform documenting and amplifying the work of DC-based Black artists and designers by Eden Elam; Resistance to the physical world through the digital space by Corrina Espinosa & Molly Valentine Dierks; A visual examination of design strategies to support protest movements by Tyler Galloway; Unpacking race, inequity, and public interventions in the built environment by Jacquelyn Iyamah; Navigating collective grief, resistance, and the power of dissent through vulnerability by Anna Johannes, PLY; The Palette of Dissent: An Introduction to Emergent Dynamics by Tyfahra Milele, PhD; Dissent against the fast fashion industry’s normalized systems of environmental destruction and labor extraction by Jocelyn Rice; Play as a tool for civic dissent, social equity, and community empowerment by Ryan Swanson and Maeghann Coleman of The Urban Conga; Resilience as an active discipline in the face of ongoing systemic challenges by Tracy Swyst.
