Designing Anti-Racist Technoculture for Equitable Futures

Ari Melenciano: Designing Anti-Racist Technoculture for Equitable Futures

This is an investigation of a variety of different branches of knowledge that affect the human experience, including public policy, sociology, economics, urban design, psycho-geography and technology. NYU ITP researcher, Ari Melenciano, began making connections between the aforementioned areas commonly assumed to be siloed as she realized their collaborative operation in sustaining racial and socio-economic oppression. One must understand the rules, before successfully breaking them. One must understand history, to most accurately predict and design the future. Historically, it was man that operated with racist practices. Today, those practices are being embedded into technological tools and forms that are increasingly effecting greater amounts of the world’s population, under a multitude of disguises. In Ari’s attempt to design a technoculture and future that is racially equitable, she highlights past and current algorithms in and out of the computer, and how we can think critically and inclusively to create a more healthy and sustainable world, while eradicating racial oppression in the process.