A design project about striving to understand our identities better and how to personally relate to the multifaceted contexts in which we find ourselves— considering where we come from and what came before us— what shaped our paths as humans.

The work of designers is related to people and places, systems, things, and ideas. It is about understanding history and looking toward the future through communication and visual language. We must understand where we are now on our journeys and relate our understanding of ourselves within the current context.

42 Junior Graphic Design students have crossed paths here in Boston and reside on land with a contentious history extending back to the original indigenous stewards of the land. Each student was asked to develop a deeper understanding of the place and land and the people’s history upon which we are standing and then how to relate their own identity or personal stories to the place in which they presently find themselves. Students then created personal acknowledgments through visual and verbal language and presented this in the form of a printed poster.

Created in partnership with

Jean-Luc Pierite
Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana President of the Board
North American Indian Center of Boston http://www.naicob.org