The ligatures of life: The designer's role in telling the 'difficult' stories of genocide

Willhemina E. Wahlin

The ligatures of life: The designer's role in telling the 'difficult' stories of genocide

Willhemina E. Wahlin

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Abstract

Part of Yale's Genocide Studies Program's Special Lecture Series, this presentation focused on the role of the designer in interpreting, collaborating and creating difficult exhibitions, particularly those that tell the stories of genocide. With a focus on The Rescuers exhibition (PROOF: Media for Social Justice), the lecture provided Genocide Studies students with an insight into visual storytelling for difficult exhibtiions.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 03 Dec 2015
Event	Yale University Genocide Studies Program Special Lecture Series - Yale University, New Haven, United States Duration: 03 Nov 2015 → 03 Dec 2015 https://gsp.yale.edu/about-gsp

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Other	Yale University Genocide Studies Program Special Lecture Series
Abbreviated title	Genocide studies
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Haven
Period	03/11/15 → 03/12/15
Other	Founded in January 1998, the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University’s MacMillan Center conducts research, seminars and conferences on comparative, interdisciplinary, and policy issues relating to the phenomenon of genocide, and has provided training to researchers from afflicted regions, including Cambodia, Rwanda, and East Timor. The GSP also maintains research projects on those catastrophes, on the Nazi Holocaust, the genocides in Bosnia and Darfur, and on colonial and indigenous genocides. The Program is an affiliate of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and is sponsored by the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School.
Internet address	https://gsp.yale.edu/about-gsp

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The ligatures of life: The designer's role in telling the 'difficult' stories of genocide

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