DICHOTOMY 28: RED
I am “seeing red” daily; maybe you are too. In a state of overwhelm and agitation, being so angry that we see red is a colloquial reference to the technique of matadors who use a red cape to charge a bull up and engage him in a fight. Ernest Hemingway wrote that the lethal encounter between a matador and a bull in is “like a wonderful nightmare.” Hemingway was a fan of bullfighting and found wonder and sport in the skill of the matador but the bull is living a nightmare—wounded, bleeding, continuously provoked and threatened. The swirling red fabric is beautiful, threatening, dangerous, powerful. What you see depends on your position and your allegiances.
Contributors:
Irene Brisson: OPENING NOTE
Ashley Caruso: “EXPERIMENTAL RUIN FIELDWORK”
Alexandria Iacobelli: STEPS TO A CAREER AS A FIREMAN
Moises Reyes and Marcus Puste: THE LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT IN DETROIT
Abbie Franz: EXPLORING THE UNIQUE ROLE OF FIRE STATION DESIGN
Kristen Mimms Scavnicky: POCKETS OF CULTURAL PRESERVATION
Nuvaira Tahir and Christopher Cleland: CUBA’S URBAN FARMING AS A DAILY SOCIO-ECONOMIC RESPONSE
Titus Chubb: PLANNED LOCATIONS FOR FIRE SAFETY ELEMENTS
Shreya Vadrevu: WHO IS THE DECOLONIAL URBAN DESIGNER?
Austin Koleszar and Ray Stoeser: DEFYING RED TAPE WITH GUERILLA PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Eleasa Mckinney: A PULL FROM THE EVERYDAY
Christopher Schneider: RED PANTS
Sara Dean and Andrea Steves: ARCHITECTURE IN THE RED
Tran Thi Hon Trang: ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF
Lucjan Rostkowski-Covington: CONFRONTING GENTRIFICIATION
Merit Zimmerman: VENICE AS A GLOWING RED CITY
Nikki Giri: A FIRST RESPONDERS DUTY
Khole Daniels and Dr. Chanel Beebe: MAD
Michael Harpster: LIVING IN THE RED
Dominika Owoc: THE FIREBOATDS OF CHICAGO
Leslie Tom: THE ROLE MUSEUMS PLAY IN OUR CLIMATE CRISIS IS ACTION
Abriannah Aiken: QUEER… FLAMING, BURNING, SEARING
Madison Fischer and Sofia Solianyk: THE LINGERING IMPACT OF FIRE AND ABANDONMENT
Dan Pitera: FROM THE DEAN’S DESK: THE LIGHT IS ON
Red is the hue humans perceive at the long wave end of the visible spectrum (630-750 nanometers). Since people picked up red ochre to paint more than 70,000 years ago, we have used the color red to express ourselves and it has accumulated millennia of meanings. In societies across the world and across time, red has come to symbolize life, joy, luck, celebration, power, danger, blood, fertility, war, and more. In this issue of Dichotomy, authors engage with these plural significations.
Excerpt from the RED Opening Note by Irene Brisson.
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Co-Editors: Abbie Franz
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Graphic Design Director: Titus Chubb
Communications Director: Dominika Owoc and Nikki Giri
Social Media / Website Director: Alexandria Iacobelli
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