Bridging the dichotomy of inner and outer, the approach laid out in this book is for your living practice.

In the context of our socio-political realities, the approach in this book fosters what is interior—what is private, inward, fragmented, and illegible. How do we check ourselves, make tangible what we value in theory, and become sharper as socio-political agents?

The book functions in three interlocking ways: The framework equips you with language to talk about and assert your footing with practice and theory. The demonstration reveals a repeatable four-step process and models ways of working with theory. The guide provides a sequence of hands-on prompts to attend to the inner workings of your own practice.

In practice, the book is subversive to conventional disciplinary research and institutional pedagogy while simultaneously modeling and contributing to practice-led research. Building on design research, Black critical thought, and autoethnography, the approach in this book was developed over a decade in design studios, classrooms, and a research lab.