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Dept of Transformation
Joined Metalabel 07/25/2025
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Transformer Badge by Jonathan Bruce Williams
by Dept of Transformation, and Jonathan Bruce Williams
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Dept. of Transformation Companion Jonathan Bruce Williams. Precision-made and full of meaning, it’s more than an object—this limited edition, machined aluminum badge is for the true heads, the inner circle of sparkle. It’s a shimmering sign of higher-level commitment to transformation, art, and mutual magic.
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RURAL is a site-specific publication series documenting conversations and experiences with people living in rural communities. It explores lived experience framed by these questions: How does where we live shape our reality and impact how we relate to ourselves, our communities, the environment, our politics, and the ways we are creative?
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Cellular Balance Workbook empowers you to take back your time and attention by redesigning your relationship with the smartphone. The workbook’s tested strategies show you how to break default habits—without ditching your device. Previous readers reclaimed between 20 and 120 days a year. Imagine what you could do with that time.
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Blessed Rest by Payal ™ is an intuitive self-care exploratory 53-card deck including 40 aphorisms, 5 action cards and 5 breathwork cards. The deck empowers individuals to embrace rest as a healing act and to make small, intentional choices that support long-term well-being.
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A quick-fire method for generating feedback on individual challenges in a small group adapted from Liberating Structures.
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Conceived by Oliver Herring and recounted by DOT Curator Sam Rauch, TASK is a group artmaking activity that can lead to collective chaos (and a lot of fun!)
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STUCK, adapted from "Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move" by Arawana Hayashi, is a practice involving small groups and emphasizes speaking from personal experience, avoiding judgment or interpretation, and moving without planning through embodiment of sculptural forms.
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Riffing on Kae Tempest's book "On Connection," On Collective Connection is a short group exercise to connect through reading together.
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"Mirroring Oneself," adapted by Stephan Hanmer D’Élia from Parenting Journey, is a printable PDF guide for a paired self-reflection exercise. Using a phone camera or mirror, participants answer prompts about how they see themselves, how others see them, and how they wish to be seen—deepening awareness, empathy, and connection.
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"Letter to Yourself from the Future" is a recipe to imagine the essential transformations you'll undergo toward your ideal future self adapted by Dept of Transformation, from Milton Glaser via Debbie Millman, as well as from Liz Magic Laser.
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Interwoven, by Stephen Hanmer D'Elía and documented by Dept of Transformation, is a physical exercise to explore interconnectedness, entanglement, and our dependence on one another.
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"Workshop of Workshops" by P. Krishnamurthy, explores various organizational structures—studio, gallery, school, therapy, and temple—analyzing their advantages and disadvantages in fostering creativity, collaboration, and individual development. PK proposes a "new workshop" model that to merge the best aspects of these formats.
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Pompeii! is Prem Krishnamurthy’s evolving digital artwork—a layered PDF archive tracing transformation, ritual, and collective authorship. Released via the Pompeii Commitment, it reframes catastrophe as creative turning, inviting viewers into an open, living document of change.
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P.P.P.P.P.P. (People! Practice Participating in Participatory Projects, Please.) by Naoco Wowsugi, 2023 “Why are artists always seen as the leaders or organizers? Why can’t you be an artist by being a participant?” —Naoco Wowsugi
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For notes, dreams, schemes, and low-stakes scrawls: this softcover notebook + pen combo is the official Dept of Transformation field kit for world-changing thoughts. Whether you're sketching or scratching out a task well-done, you're part of the movement. Start writing the future!
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This is your invitation to join Dept of Transformation! If you believe art can change the world, then you’re already one of us. Wear it proud, support the mission, and show the world you’re here to transform! No prerequisites, just vibes.
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This is your invitation to join Dept of Transformation! If you believe art can change the world, then you’re already one of us. Wear it proud, support the mission, and show the world you’re here to transform! No prerequisites, just vibes.
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This is your invitation to join Dept of Transformation! If you believe art can change the world, then you’re already one of us. Wear it proud, support the mission, and show the world you’re here to transform! No prerequisites, just vibes.