Claudia Alick, Author at Calling Up Justice!

A split-image composition showing hybrid digital placemaking: on the left, a pixel-art map of an arts center with multiple rooms and gathering spaces; on the right, a real photograph of the same building exterior and interior, where one person stands outside a green-framed arts venue beside a small table with masks and printed materials. The image contrasts virtual infrastructure and physical community care within a shared cultural space.

Digital Placemaking and Belonging

Digital Placemaking, Placekeeping, and the Work of Belonging Calling Up Justice as a Hybrid Practice Creative placemaking is often described as the process of shaping

An illustrated Zoom meeting shows nine diverse participants in a 3x3 grid, each drawn in a warm, hand-drawn style with bold outlines and textured colors. Above or around each person float symbols representing ideas and resource exchange—lightbulbs, gears, money, charts, papers, speech bubbles, and globes. The participants appear joyful, expressive, and engaged in conversation. At the bottom of the image is a stylized Zoom interface bar with icons for mute, video, participants, chat, share screen, record, breakout rooms, reactions, and leave.

Open Development 2025

Open Development 2025: A Year of Collective Growth, Resource Building, and Justice-Centered Innovation 2025 has been an extraordinary year for our Open Development community—a year

Accessible Sports in Society

Now more than ever our disabled youth need concrete skills of leadership to usher forth the society that we wish to see the in the

Cripping with Slow AI

Cripping with Slow AI: Reflections on My Work as Intersectional Design Specialist with the CripTech AI Lab When I joined the CripTech AI Lab as

Money Please For Our People

Featured Guest Artists & Justice Partners Spotlighting Disability Justice, Black & Brown Futures, Trans Brilliance & Community-Rooted Arts EVENT REPORT: “Money Please 2025”A 24-Hour Giving

Digital Placemaking Team

Join the Digital Placemaking Team at Calling Up Justice At Calling Up Justice, we don’t just build events—we build places. Digital Placemaking is a term

Grief Is Part of Our Practice

Grief Is Part of Our Practice: A Calling Up Justice Reflection As an anti-genocidal, Disability Justice–centered transmedia arts practice, we do not get to choose

Money Please: We Rise Together

Money Please: We Rise Together Giving Tuesday began as a simple idea — a collective response to the frenzy of consumerism surrounding Black Friday and

The Open Palm Philosophy

by Claudia Alick Since 2001, I have lived and worked by a guiding practice I call The Open Palm Philosophy — a framework for art-making,

MONEY PLEASE! – COUNTDOWN TO GIVING TUESDAY

It takes money to make justice happen. It’s that time of year when everyone’s asking for support—and we’re doing it with joy, creativity, and community.

Author: Claudia Alick