Pierce Erez-Henderson
is an educator, urbanist, and artist. With the goal of understanding and explaining learning and knowing, his practice spans a wide range of physical, digital, sonic, textual, and computational projects that engage audiences across communities and disciplines. Pierce holds master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
 

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What about Design? Understanding the Biden Win From an Aesthetic Perspective (2021)
Op-ed published by the Harvard Kennedy School Review on the aesthetic dimensions of the US 2020 general election.
By taking an aesthetic perspective on the conditions of presidential electoral success in the US, my op-ed outlined the pandemic’s dampening effects on the public displays of persuasion, conventional in peacetime, and argued that this subsequently inhibited Trump and Biden campaigns’ abilities to design their messages. 

Collaborator: Derrick Flakoll (editor)

Link: SHORENSTEIN CENTER ON MEDIA, POLITICS, AND PUBLIC POLICY