De speaks as a panelist for the 2021 MLK Symposium: Building the Beloved Community Through Trauma-Informed Design, presented by the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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In this live conversation by Exhibit Columbus and Dezeen, a panel of experts discussed how cultural organisations and communities can work toward creating equitable civic spaces across the US.
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De joins design leader, Jessica Helfand, for a conversation on reliance, entrepreneurship, and activism for her daily essay series, The Self-Reliance Project, on Design Observer.
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De Nichols presents at the 2020 Chicago Camps convening to share about her consultancy, Civic Creatives, as part of its Leadership by Design sessions.
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Designer and social worker, De Nichols, capstoned Design Futures Forum with a reflective talk about sustaining personal and collective well-being in the fight for racial healing and justice in the United States. De shared lessons from civil rights leaders and fused insights from her personal challenges of navigating design activism with a chronic illness. By introducing a framework to assess the collective trauma in the built environment, De proposed a set of provocations that designers might consider as they design toward a more just and healthy future.
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Mallory Nezam, De Nichols, and Damon Davis are the artists and designers of MADAD, a collective from St. Louis, MO, selected for the 2020 corhort of Monument Lab’s Transnational Fellowship. MADAD works to reimagine how joy, justice, and interactivity improve public spaces and cultural experiences in St. Louis.
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The Chouteau Greenway is one of six North American projects to earn Architecture Magazine’s 67th Annual Progressive Architecture Award. Each year, its panel of jurors select works within the built environment that “exemplify progress by using design to draw connections between individual users and the communities around them.”
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Watch the recorded talks and “Conflicts in Inclusion” panel that De moderated for the Conflict by Design conference at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design
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De joins the team at Entrepreneurially Thinking podcast to speak about social challenges that matter to her and how her team at Civic Creatives uses design and creative organizing to bring awareness to these issues. Listen to the conversation.
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Join Adobe and designers across the globe for World Interaction Design Day (IxDD), a global celebration of interaction design’s ability to improve the human condition. On Tuesday, September 25, the community will come together through activities and events taking place around the globe that showcase the diverse ways interaction design impacts everyday life.
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De Nichols is a member of the Stoss Landscape Urbanism team, which won the 2018 Chouteau Greenway Design competition launched by Great Rivers Greenway with unanimous decision of it jury.
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