I WRITE THINGS

Pasts and futures are braided together with maps. There are as many types of maps as there are stories, and perhaps my story will come in...

Peer reviewed and accepted in AIGA Design Educators Community Summit Proceedings: "SHIFT 2020" Since the 1964 publication of the original...

European colonialism is one of the most recent examples of imperialism — one in a long line of empires throughout human history. All the...

Justice Counts on All of Us

Today, I went down a Foucaultian rabbit hole. Foucault's work has been mentioned repeatedly in the work of travel writing critics (and...

He sees me, and hovers in front of my face for a moment. Eye contact. Understanding. We’re drunk on our senses, on desire — looking for some

Ideological frameworks are all around us, influencing us, and determining the ways in which we move around in the world. According to...

Not too long ago, I embarked on a 12,000-mile road trip throughout the western United States. The goal — to see as much publicly...

Texts, or discourses, according to cultural critic David Spurr (1993), tell stories that justify and allow colonization to become...

Ten artists from across the country meet for the first time at the Deer Creek trailhead for a weeklong wilderness retreat. It’s important...

As founder and director of Phoenix Mural Project I’m engaged in lots of different kinds of communities within the city: property...

I’ve always loved maps. As a kid, I would spin the globe in our living room as fast as I could. With a jab, I’d poke my finger out to...

The Menu Travel and travel writing are sometimes narrowly defined, especially in the context of bookstore genres. Entire shelves full of...

ABOUT ME: Danielle Foushée is author, designer, public artist, and professor at Arizona State University. She founded and directs Phoenix...

I depart from Seattle on a grey and misty day in November 2015, headed to Phoenix, Arizona.[1] I’ve never visited Phoenix before, and...

Where I left my keys To put the wet clothes in the dryer To feed the dogs What temperature to set the oven To check the mail To show up...

The sun’s rays barely peeked over Sheep Hill this morning and I was already fired up. I walk a lot — every day at least two miles, often...

If you want a more authentic experience of Phoenix’s street art culture, you have to visit the grass-roots mural project in Oak Street Alle

According to the U.S. Postal Service, the first private mail receptacles came into use in 1896. They were a hodgepodge of whatever usable it

Published 2019: User Experience & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal, open access 1. Introduction I move around a lot, so I know well...

Six practical tips from a cancer patient on how to be a true friend.

One of the eight limbs of yoga according to Patanjali is called “niyama.” The niyamas include the following of five observances: purity,...