Power+Place and the Center for Design Thinking to host “From Radical Hospitality to Radical Accountability: An Intergenerational Community Workshop at Design Forge 2025
Leading up to the closing keynote at the 2025 Design Forge, the Power+Place Collaborative and Center for Design Thinking will host, “From Radical Hospitality to Radical Accountability: An Intercultural, Intergenerational, Interactive Lunch Workshop.” The event will be Thursday, March 27, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m., at the Elon Community Church. Registration for the discussion can be completed online.
This community lunch will help participants design actionable opportunities for moving towards radical hospitality and accountability across their communities. Participants will get the chance to engage in intergenerational and cross-cultural conversations among students, youth, organizers and elders.
Diya Abdo will facilitate conversation on fostering change through intergenerational and intercultural collaboration. Abdo is a Lincoln Financial professor of english at Guildford College, founder of Every Campus a Refuge, a program for resettling and housing refugees on college and university campuses, and author of “American Refuge: True Stories of the Refugee Experience.”
On Friday, March 28 the Design Forge will close by featuring “Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human” by Arturo Escobar, Michal Osterweil, and Kriti Sharma (the selected book for Design Forge 2025). The book’s central theme focuses on constructing livable worlds that lie in knowing and acting on the awareness of the interdependence of everything that exists – what the authors refer to as “relationality.”
The authors will be the closing keynote speakers at the Design Forge, sharing compelling stories and transformative strategies drawn from their lifework, followed by an engaging Q&A session open to both virtual and in-person attendees. You can register to attend the closing keynote online. Registration for all Forge sessions are located online.
The Center for Design Thinking invites participants to join other book club sessions and events we hold by registering on our website.
