DE_SIGN, as another queer-driven practice-based research by Gabriel Ann Maher, holds design’s media apparatuses such as magazines under the microscope.

By problematizing the cultural codes of the body positions and their relation to gender and power dynamics, Maher focuses particularly on the sitting body. DE_SIGN: Act of Sitting, therefore, ensues as a material exploration and performance of some deconstructed postures and manifests the fluid ways of positioning the self.