Areas of interest
History and politics of design.
Education
- MA, Communication, Simon Fraser University
Biography
Lindsay Brown is a Vancouver writer, designer and activist. She is author of “Habitat ’76," an illustrated history of Vancouver's 1976 UN Habitat Conference on Human Settlements, the world's first global conference on cities and housing (Black Dog Publishing, 2017). Brown is Director of Communications for Commons BC, which creates and collects data visualization of BC’s public resources, and was co-founder of the Vancouver Not Vegas Coalition, which defeated gambling expansion in Vancouver. She co-founded Ouno Design, an ongoing design criticism and research project. She has an MA in Communication from Simon Fraser University, and was on the Leaders Council of the Indian Summer Festival.