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Dina
Benbrahim

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w.i.p.






designer,
scholar,
educator.

Research

Reverberations Exhibit at Ford Foundation,
curated by Polymode
Presented at
Design History Society
BIPOC Design History Course
Centered, edited by Kaleena Sales
and published by Princeton Architectural Press
Contributed a book chapter “Woven in Oral History: An Incomplete Taxonomy of Amazigh Symbols”
Forthcoming book project with Lisa Maione and Alan Caballero LaZare, published with Bikini Books
Contributed a chapter and interview in the book Revealing, Recording, and Reflecting, edited by Huda AbiFarès, Yasmine Taan, Bahia Shehab and Soukeina Hachem
Mama-ing,
photo essay
with Kári Björn
Contributed with a case study on Hello Departures
Founded and directed the experimental program,
Hello Departures
What it Means to Be a Designer Today edited by Liza Stinson and Jarrett Fuller and published by Princeton Architectural Press
Interview “Teaching Design History” by Briar Levit, with Saki Mafundikwa, Ramon Tejada, and Tasheka Arceneaux Sutton
Contributed a case study
“Co-Designing Meaningful Dialogues on Sexual Harassment”
Feminist Designer
edited by A. Place and published
by MIT Press
Contributed with the chapter
“On Design Histories Woven
in Patriarchy”
Our Morocco, edited by
Lucas M. Peters and published
by Journey Beyond Travel
Contributed with the chapter,
“A Biased Typographic Collection of Tangier”
Thinking Through Graphic Design History by Aggie Toppins and published by Bloomsbury
Contributed with a case study
“Seeking Plural Narratives”  


Teaching


Kat W, Visent Animation, 
Color Studies, Process
Vote Poster by Cole Heitmann, GD3
Poetic Journeys, AR animation by Riley McGarry Partridge, Design Center
Grace Kirby, Type Design and Visual Systems
MFA thesis book
Collaborative mural “I Exist in the Future”
designed by Erin Enmark, Type III
Más Libritos by Cole Heitmann, 
Jharif Rochabrun, Riley McGarry Partridge, and Dillon Rakowski, Design Center
Vanessa Davis, Type Design and Animation
Emily Duchene, 
Identity I
Collaborative project, “Kind Project”
with Aimsley McDaniel, Blaise Keasler, Erin Enmark, Haley Tucker, Jaret Sites, Lizzie Cleveland, Stacey Trucks, Melissa Loney, 
and Nick Hobbs, Identity II
Emily Duchene, Identity II
Collaborative research book
“Seeking Plural Narratives”
Design History + Type II
Saša Crkvenjaš, UX/UI, Type I