This workshop, planned by The Center for Drawn Togetherness, was designed to help young people make real-world connections in an increasingly screen-based society. The event explored student participants’ relationship to technology as they each designed a set of hand-drawn and RISO-printed pinback buttons. All aspects of the workshop, including RISO printing and button-pressing, were student-led. Senior design students took on leadership roles during the event, helping younger students make effective button designs and use the equipment properly.
The workshop featured six “speed ideating” stations themed around commonly encountered digital buttons (for example, “delete”, “share”, and “search”) to prompt conversations about the ways participants use technology and how it impacts their lives both positively and negatively.
Like all events planned by The Center for Drawn Togetherness, this project aimed to use drawing to promote empathetic dialogue and honor a multiplicity of perspectives.