Citizenship by Design investigates the design of international passports, identification technologies and travel regulations to raise critical questions about contemporary citizenship, security, and nation-branding. By highlighting the aesthetics of these bureaucratic documents and procedures, and by remixing their graphic elements into multinational hybrids, the project calls attention to the ways that citizenship is designed–and the ways it might be reimagined in an era of proliferating global crossings. This publication documents the project Citizenship by Design and includes selected images from its circulation as a series of exhibitions and public installations in 2008-10.
Š 2010 Kadambari Baxi and Irene Cheng Project Team: Christina Yang, Daniella Zalcman, Christian Ruud, Marcella Del-Signore, Rodrigo Zamora Project funded by: IFG-Ulm (International Design Foundation, Ulm), Germany Barnard Research Fund
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Kadambari Baxi <kbaxi@barnard.edu> Irene Cheng <irene.cheng@gmail.com>