A couple of years ago, I raced out of work and onto the Rose Kennedy Greenway’s walking path in search of lunch. On the way to the food trucks, I saw people lounging on colorful blankets and chairs. After grabbing my meal, I joined a group on the grass and listened to a lush soundscape by Dzidzor. From speakers, declarations of liberation and openness spoken over ambient sounds washed over me under summer’s sun. I dropped my tense shoulders and laughed with strangers.
The event, inPUBLIC: Rest, was organized by the Design Studio for Social Intervention in Dorchester—whose work sits at the “intersections of design thinking and practice, social justice and activism, public art and social practice, and civic/ popular engagement”—as part of a series featuring poems, music, family portraits, and more. Read more