Living Living Room Lectures presents Queer(ing) Design: How to Create the Worlds We Want
$30
Friday, Jan 23, 2026
12:30 am — 3:00 am UTC
Friday, Jan 23, 2026
12:30 am — 3:00 am UTC
Join us as we reimagine design through a queer lens. Drawing from their forthcoming book Queer(ing) Design, Sloan Leo Cowan will guide us in exploring how queerness can reorient design from a commodified, corporate tool toward a practice of worldmaking. Together, we’ll consider how queering design centers care, rejects binaries, embraces ambiguity, and creates space for communities to imagine, build, and transition toward futures beyond capitalism.
A portion of bar donations will benefit the Groundswell Fund, an organization that supports grassroots social justice movements led by women of color and trans and gender-expansive people of color through grants, capacity building, and rapid response funding.
A limited number of free and discounted tickets are available for those who need them and/or would like to volunteer. Please contact us at livingroomlecturesnyc@gmail.com
Program
- 7:30-8:00pm - Arrival and Mingling; Snacks and donation-based bar available
- 8:00-8:30pm - Introduction and Lecture
- 8:30-9:00pm - Discussion
- 9:00-10:00pm - Mingling; Snacks and donation-based bar available
Facilitator Bio
Adam Nye
Adam Nye (he/him) is the founder and host of Living Room Lectures. As an educator and nonprofit leader, Adam’s expertise is in informal learning and community engagement across schools, museums, and cultural spaces. Adam also co-hosts a Queer Cinema Club. Living Room Lectures builds community through shared learning and discussion, creating a cozy space to exchange ideas, resources, and inspiration. Each gathering features one guest giving a short lecture on a topic of their choice, but they have to make it queer.
Speaker Bio
Sloan Leo Cowan
Sloan Leo Cowan (they/he) is founder of FLOX Studio, a community design consultancy, and lead steward of Queer Design Club. Their work has been published in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Service Design and featured in Fast Company and Design Observer. They write and teach widely on queerness, community futures, and design.
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