Uplifting / Lifting Up: Asian Power From Our Own Hands, by Tingyu “Danica” Dou (MFA 2021 Products of Design), asks how design can be a tool to combat anti-Asian hate, using hours of interviews with cultural experts and an online community as research.

The products comprising Uplifting/Lifting Up touch on connectivity, shared histories and celebrating cultural traditions, utilizing design as a way to restore power to marginalized groups, specifically Asian and Asian American people, and particularly amid the recent rise in anti-Asian hate and violence. Dou is bridging the gaps in her community in ways both whimsical and impactful. Her project includes an educational platform, Tso Delicious, aimed at broadening interest in misunderstood Asian foods through soundbites; a networking app that gives voice to Asians and Asian Americans to empower one another through shared personal storytelling experience; a line of colorful and humorous print-at-home protest signs; and a game for kids to create the Asian or Asian American superheroes of their dreams.

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