Ángel López
Transdisciplinary Design
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Brooklyn, NY
Angel distributes design methods, frameworks, and strategies to an undocumented community, that otherwise, would not gain access. He asks, “If design is a powerful tool for change, then who has access to design?” Angel am a design strategist, artist, and educator. His work is focused on the impact of human welfare, civil rights and the marginalization of people.
The objective of Ángel’s work is design for liberation through community-based practices by co-developing strategies and tactics to respond to the systemic marginalization of communities. His process is community-centered through principles of capacity building, developing community trust, exercising empathy, and critically thinking. Most importantly, he co-creates with communities at the forefront of the issue and in spaces where not just one discipline can tackle alone. The process Ángel creates has a genuine transformative outcome through artifacts, distribution of knowledge, publication of knowledge, community agency, replication of models, or storytelling. The design of his work is to enable social change.