Profile
Shana Agid is an artist/designer, educator, and organizer whose work focuses on relationships of power and difference in visual, social, and political cultures. She is an Associate Professor of Arts, Media, and Communication at Parsons School of Design and a co-developer of Working with People (), a keyword-based curriculum and website for developing critical pedagogical frameworks for collaborative practices. His design work focuses on exploring possibilities for making self-determined services and campaigns through teaching and design research. He is also a book artist and letterpress printer, and a long-time member of Critical Resistance. Shana has an MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts (CCA) and a Ph.D. in Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). She is currently serving as the Dean of the School of Art. Media, and Technology at Parsons. In 2024-2025, Shana is the Tranformative Justice Skill Up Fellow at .
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Degrees Held
Shana holds an MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts and MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts (CCA) and a Ph.D. in Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).
Recent Publications
鈥淗ow What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine: De-Coupling Design and Punishment,鈥 Space and Culture (Special Issue: Inside Inside), 25 (3) July 2022.
鈥淜nowing What Needs: Design, Refusal, and Making Otherwise,鈥 in Design in Crisis, edited by Tony Fry and Adam Nocek, New York: Routledge, 2021.
鈥淩eflexive account-giving through 鈥榩ractice notations鈥: plural dimensions and dynamics of infrastructuring,鈥 co-authored with Yoko Akama. Participatory Design Conference Proceedings, ACM International, June 2020.
鈥淢aking and negotiating value: design and collaboration with community-led groups,鈥 with Elizabeth Chin. CoDesign, published online January 2019 (print publication forthcoming).
鈥淲hat do we want?: Designing Cultures of Care in Conditions of Precarity,鈥 in Designing Cultures of Care, edited by Laurene Vaughn, London: Bloomsbury Press, 2018.
鈥淢aking 鈥榮afety,鈥 making freedom: Problem-setting, collaborative design, and contested futures,鈥 in Tricky Design: The Ethics of Things, edited by Tom Fisher and Lorraine Gamman, London: Bloomsbury Press, 2018.
鈥溾楧ismantle, Change, Build鈥: Designing abolition at the intersections of local, large-scale, and imagined infrastructures,鈥 Design Studies (Special Issue: Participatory Design), 59 (2018).
鈥淒ance of designing: Rethinking position, relation and movement in service design,鈥 co-authored with Yoko Akama, ServDes2018 Conference Proceedings, 2018.
鈥淕round Rules.鈥 Hobart: A Literary Journal. April 2018.
鈥溾樷t's your project, but it's not necessarily your work鈥︹: Infrastructuring, Situatedness, and Designing Relational Practice,鈥 Participatory Design Conference Proceedings, ACM International, 2016.
鈥淔inding 鈥楥ommunity鈥 and other critical words,鈥 with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani. Urban Pamphleteer, Global Education for Urban Futures, 2015.
鈥淢aking Anyway: Education, Designing, Abolition.鈥 Lateral: A Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, Theory Thread, 3 (Spring 2014).
鈥淲orld-Making: Theory/Practice Practices in Design.鈥 Design and Culture, 4(1) (March 2012).
鈥溾楬ow can we design something to transition people from a system that doesn鈥檛 want to let them go?鈥: Social Design and its Political Contexts.鈥 Design Philosophy Papers, 鈥淏eyond 鈥楶rogressive Design鈥 3 (December 2011).
It Doesn鈥檛 Get Any Better Than This. New York: Booklyn Artists Alliance, 2010. Letterpress printed cover, offset interior. Numbered edition of 750 copies.
Shana Agid, Michael Bennett and Kate Drabinski. 鈥淭eaching Against the Prison Industrial Complex.鈥 Radical Teacher, 88 (July 2010): 3-6.
Shana Agid and Erica Rand. 鈥淭eaching Beyond 鈥楾olerance鈥.鈥 Radical Teacher, 80 (January 2008): 2-5.
Research Interests
participatory design, service design, cultural studies, critical prison studies, printmaking + book arts, visual culture studies
Awards And Honors
2016-17 Distinguished University Teaching Award, Excellence in Social Justice Teaching, 麻豆传媒色情片
Portfolio