Live Your Purpose, Artfully is a video series that looks at creatives and innovators who are living, working, and visiting the city of New Orleans.

Recorded on July 9, 2018 in Treme.

Featuring Ron Morrison in conversation with Gia Hamilton
Created and produced by Gia Hamilton
Recorded and edited by Riley Teahan

Ron Morrison (Elegant Collisions) is an interdisciplinary designer, artist, and researcher working across the fields of human geography, digital technology, and urbanism. Their practice works to investigate the generative ways in which the unassimilable refigures, complicates, and dissolves our understandings of race + geographic space as fixed and knowable. Focusing on boundaries, subjectivity, and protection I look for the ways that fissures and inconsistencies can allow for emergent moments to practice new spatial relationships and epistemologies. From these seemingly dissonant spaces we learn to rework and retune systems towards an increased potential for collaboration and action, from the quotidian to the phenomenological. With a strong background in community development and social advocacy, they believe that people should have full access to shaping their cities and communities and see design as a medium for creating knowledge and moving beyond paralysis in the face of complexity. From building open source platforms to upend the continued practice of solitary confinement to crafting community based archives to combat gentrification, their work investigates cartographies of slow violence, cybernetics, unassimilable data, and blackness.They have been a collaborator with design teams that implemented projects in New Orleans, Ghana, Colombia, Ethiopia, New York, and Venice and have had work featured in AIA New York, the UN World Urban Forum, and the Tribeca Film Festival. Ron holds degrees in Psychology and Gender Studies, as well as a graduate degree in Design and Urban Ecologies from Parsons School of Design. They are currently an Annenburg PhD Fellow in the School of Cinematic Arts at USC in Los Angeles.

Gia Hamilton is an arts and cultural steward, mother, healer, and applied anthropologist, known for her visionary ability to identify and cultivate support systems. Gia co-founded an independent African-centered school, Little Maroons in 2006. Later, she opened a creative incubator space — Gris Gris Lab — in 2009 and designed and led the Joan Mitchell Center artist residency program in New Orleans. Hamilton received the 2018 Next City Vanguard fellowship and was nominated for the 2018 City Business Woman of Year Award. Gia currently lives in New Orleans with her four sons and just completed an ethnographic memoir entitled Modern Matriarch.

www.giahamiltonstudio.com
@grisgrismama

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