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taken in Bahia, Brasil by @gnborges

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Feliz e honrado por participar da pesquisa iconográfica para o caderno histórico de imagens e também do posfácio da primeira edição do livro Design: global, crítico, negro, prático, de @rafaelxvx, publicado pela editora @clubedolivrodesign.

O livro reúne quatro ensaios que partem da trajetória profissional de Bessa para explorar as interseções entre globalização, trabalho, política e cultura visual, confrontando questões urgentes sobre design negro, capitalismo dependente, trabalho e precarização.

A pesquisa se tornou um caderno colorido de 72 páginas, que dialoga diretamente com os temas explorados por Bessa.

Esse projeto ganha um significado mais especial para mim porque Bessa foi crítico convidado na apresentação dos MDes Open Projects dos alunos da Dra. Abby Spinak - Experimental Infrastructures, grupo do qual eu fazia parte, e também porque tive a oportunidade de receber a visita, ainda que breve, da @terezabettinardi, fundadora do Clube do Livro do Design e responsável pela coordenação editorial e editorial de texto do livro - tudo isso ainda lá na Escola de Design de Harvard.

A equipe de pesquisa foi composta por mim e pelos queridos amigos de longa data: @carlapiaggio, @goyalopesarte, @jonathanprateat, @madu_du_carmo e @soumelcampos.

E, se você ainda não adquiriu, o livro segue à venda no site oficial do Clube do Livro do Design. Não preciso dizer que vale a leitura dessa joia, brasileiramente lapidada.

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Honored and happy to have contributed to the iconographic research for the historical image section and to the afterword of the first edition of Design: global, crítico, negro, prático, by Rafael Bessa, published by Clube do Livro do Design.

The book brings together four essays exploring the intersections of globalization, labor, politics, and visual culture, addressing urgent questions around Black design, dependent capitalism, and the precarity of work.

This Brazilianly cut and polished jewel there is no English edition yet, but the book is still available through the official Clube do Livro do Design website, currently in Brazilian Portuguese. by @gnborges

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N76848002957 - Cambridge, USA / 2025. by @gnborges

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On Mobility explores mobility at the intersection of human experience, technology, and the built environment.
From the psychological impact of urban navigation to the role of architecture in shaping transit, it offers a multilayered look at how movement through space can enhance our connection with place, people, and planet.

Edited by REAL Lab
Illustrated by Steven Johnson

With Contributions from Bryan Boyer, Steven Johnson, Jean Christoph Naour, Dimitri Papanikolaou, Brad Weed, Carol Turley Voulgaris, Kyuman Song, Sebastian Birolini, Andrea Signori, Paolo Malighetti

#OnMobility #REALlab #DesignResearch #MobilityFutures #SpeculativeDesign #ExperienceDesign #FutureOfMobility #UrbanFutures #PhysicalDigital #ResearchThroughDesign #DesignFutures #PrintedMatter #VisualStorytelling #IllustratedBook taken in Harvard Graduate School of Design by @gnborges

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Correndo dos textos melancólicos (ou daqueles burocraticamente longos), gostaria de agradecer, mais uma vez, a todas as pessoas que, de um jeito ou de outro, me ajudaram a concluir meu mestrado em Harvard. 
Seria impossível atravessar esse caminho sem companhia: algumas já estavam comigo, outras chegaram no meio do percurso. A todas, minha profunda gratidão.

Ainda soa estranho — e talvez continue soando por um tempo — dizer em voz alta que sou mestre em Design pela Harvard. Tenho orgulho, sim, mas confesso que às vezes parece presunçoso. No mercado de trabalho, eu sei, seria quase um pecado não me gabar disso. Mas confesso, pessoalmente, a sensação é mais ambígua. Sabe?! Eu sei que algumas pessoas vão entender. Na minha criação, o “ser” nunca esteve separado do “fazer”.

No balanço, vejo mais ganhos do que perdas: compreender a relevância de títulos, valorizar a educação superior, reconhecer o esforço investido, sem, contudo, deixar que isso vire usurpação ou luxúria. Porque, no fim, usurpação e luxúria nunca combinaram com o ambiente em que cresci, tampouco com o design.

E sim, tenho sido displicente com respostas no WhatsApp e também aqui, peço desculpas. Entre turbulências políticas e incertezas de futuro, espero poder ser perdoado.  
E como prometi fugir do texto melancólico ou burocraticamente longo, encerro. 
Um beijo! 😘

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Slides 5 e 10 - ©Katherine Taylor.
Slide 11 - ©Anita Kan.

#harvard #harvardgsd #harvarduniversity taken in Harvard Graduate School of Design by @gnborges

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“Amor” is a 22-minute black-and-white short film created for the Poetics of Relation: Opacity and the Moving Image course led by Professor Aily Tanaka Nash at @harvardafvs. Rooted in Édouard Glissant’s philosophy of opacity and relation, the film explores the layered, elusive nature of love: its ambiguity, contradictions, and everyday manifestations.

At its core, Amor unfolds as a bilingual dialogue between @paolaovandoperaza, whose voice in Spanish, and me, in Portuguese.

Structured in six chapters, mirroring Glissant’s book, the film gradually expands in scale, both visually and emotionally. Each chapter opens with a short text written in a hybrid of Spanish and Portuguese: an invented language (that I created) that acts like a secret code. Partially intelligible yet intentionally opaque, it reflects the in-between spaces where love often resides.

Visually, Amor captures the ordinariness of daily life: cooking, commuting, folding laundry, and meeting friends. Shot over twelve days with a Sony Handycam, the film is unscripted, documenting these mundane moments that stand in contrast to the intensity of the voiceover. It reveals how intimacy can be found in repetition, silence, and the often-overlooked aspects of daily experiences.

I directed, edited, co-wrote, designed the visuals, and created the sound design for the film, crafted to echo the emotional texture of the narrative.

This film mediates language, intimacy, and the dignity of what doesn’t need to be explained. Told through fragments and coexisting voices. A quiet yet resonant journey across cultural, linguistic, and emotional borders.

Special Thanks .: Amelia Jones, Paola Ovando Peraza; Poster photo by @alexaresendiza, edited by me. taken in Harvard Graduate School of Design by @gnborges

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40 Kirkland St. taken in Harvard Graduate School of Design by @gnborges

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✨Hey friends!✨ I’m on the lookout for designer gigs between BostonXNYC (mostly). If you hear about anything that feels like the stuff I was doing at the GSD, send it my way!

Made this little compilation with some of the projects I’ve worked on since getting to Harvard. 🤙🏽

Beijo! by @gnborges

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✺A PHŌSGRAPHÉ✺ CIUDADE DE MÉXICO.MX / 2024
ANALOG CAMERA SHOTS

w/ @alexaresendiza @michelleresendiza ✨ taken in Ciudad De México by @gnborges

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📷 @alexaresendiza by @gnborges

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A Dialogue of Love_Machine
(Or simply A Dialogue of Love)

This project from MIT/MTA Electronic Music class delves into the elusive, perhaps even silly, essence of love.

Love, among many feelings, isn’t always about understanding; it’s about feeling. Armed with a TASCAM DR-40X, I ventured into both uncharted and charted emotional territories. I handed the device to six Harvard GSD students. Each person spoke in their native language or second language—anything but English.

From the bustling halls of Gund to secluded quiet rooms, these six voices shared fleeting phrases, profound thoughts, old messages, and cherished poems. The goal was to create a bridge between language and emotion, culture and expression. By weaving together diverse voices and languages, I aimed to create a harmonious blend of sound that transcends borders and resonates with universal truths, doubts, or lies, depending on how one perceives this subject.

After gathering the recordings, I embarked on the music production journey. Using Ableton and synthesizers like the Juno 106, alongside recorded noise and edited samples, I transformed the raw recordings into a melodic tapestry that captures, in a unique way, the essence of love (?).

This is Extract 1.
Spanish / Voice and Text by @paolaovandoperaza.
Professor - Ian Hattwick by @gnborges

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Gracias @coslara! taken in Harvard Graduate School of Design by @gnborges

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