Anti-Racism Design Resources
This document is intended to uplift Black design communities, serve as a resource for communities in need of pro bono design services, and serve as a resource to non-Black and white people to deepen our anti-racism work within design disciplines. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues. (First compiled 6/1/2020; last updated 11/20/2022)
Here is a shorter link to this document: https://bit.ly/anti-racist-design
Please feel free to share this document with other folks who are trying to mobilize. If you would like to suggest additional resources to be added, please let us know at bz@spaceindustri.es. As there are many incredible resources already available, we are looking to amplify specific actions and resources for those in the design disciplines - thanks!
In solidarity with you, SPACE INDUSTRIES x ELL x Design As Protest Collective.
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Weekly Roundup of Events and Actions @designasprotest
IMMEDIATE ACTIONS / UPCOMING EVENTS:
- If you are interested in further engagement and support of DAP Actions, please review the Action Campaigns below and sign up to join our calls and begin supporting the rollout of that Action. Expected commitment is at least 1-2 (1hr) organizing calls per week and weekly independent work on your own schedule.
- Read the statement, and if you are committed to trigger change in your school, office, institution or within your organization, sign up for the email listserv and/or register to get more involved.
- The Green New Deal Superstudio is a national conversation about how the framework of the Green New Deal can be translated into actual projects and where, as a matter of priority these projects should take place, what will they look like, who will they serve, and how will they roll out.
- The Equity and Health Innovations Design Research Lab is looking to understand insights and experiences of community designers, organizers, activists, advocates, strategists, change agents, and others using design thinking as a framework, critical lens, or practice to address social, political, or economic change in their local community. We are interested in learning about you and your experience with community-based design. We are working on a public report to share some of the sentiments shared about the overall field and would love your input!
- Firms: reach BIPOC students by posting your jobs to NOMAS through nomas@noma.net!
- Design As Protest x Emergent Grounds in Design Education
- After calls to action were sent by students and alumni this summer to academic institutions, DAP student organizing and Emergent Grounds for Design Education wants for know what’s been done. Let us know by filling out the survey
- http://bit.ly/designeducationactions
- The Department for Professional Employees (DPE) is conducting a survey on pay, benefits, and working conditions in the field of architecture and architecture adjacent work. The results of this survey will be anonymized and used in the aggregate by DPE and its affiliated labor unions to better support architectural professionals in organizing, advocacy, and representation.
- EMAIL DESIGN JUSTICE DEMANDS
- “The fight against racism and police brutality demands we leverage our professional connections and privileges in the name of advancing justice. We need to make sure that professional organizations, leading firms & offices, and local professional organizers hear our demands and use their power to establish policy that advances justice within our fields. Click the buttons below to send pre-filled emails to your network.”
- SIGN YOUR NAME IN SOLIDARITY
- Join us for the first program in the In the Realm of Indigenous Architectures series, developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning and Design (ISAPD).
- Miriam Diddy (Hopi, Navajo) is a planner and GIS specialist and has worked on planning, mapping, and community engagement efforts for several tribes across the Southwest.
- Join us for the second program in the In the Realm of Indigenous Architectures series, developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning and Design (ISAPD).
- Joaquin Gallegos (Jicarilla Apache + Santa Ana Pueblo), Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs, US Department of Interior
- Sarah Lopez, a built environment historian and migration scholar, is an associate professor at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Lopez's first book, The Remittance Landscape: The Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA, examines the impact of migrant remittances on the landscapes of Mexico. Her current projects include a history of migrant detention facilities in the U.S. and a history of construction labor and cantera stone in Mexico and the U.S. She researches at the intersections of migration, ordinary landscapes, urbanism, and spatial justice.
- Join us for the third program in the In the Realm of Indigenous Architectures series, developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning and Design (ISAPD).
- Ted Jojola (Isleta Pueblo), Director, Indigenous Design and Planning Institute, and Distinguished + Regents' Professor, University of New Mexico
- Join us for the final program in the In the Realm of Indigenous Architectures series, developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning and Design (ISAPD).
- Garron Yepa (Navajo + Jemez Pueblo), AOS Architects
- The Black School: Build a Black Radical Art School
- Yale NOMAS & EID: Support Students Leading the Charge to Redress Systemic Racism at YSoA
- Design Yard Sale: We are selling and auctioning creative works by designers to raise funds for the Bail Project and Colloqate Design, organizations that fight against systemic, anti-Black racism.
- Beirut Damage Relief: Call for engineers, suppliers, and architects to contribute your services to the public
- Architects Foundation: Desiree V. Cooper Memorial Fund: Increase the number of Black women in architecture!
- The Norma Sklarek SuperArchitects Grant: Our wonderful mission is to collectively raise 25k as grant money to be re-allocated to 5 Black Women architects, designers, or creators.
- Office Hours: Office Hours hopes to render a diverse range of cutting-edge BIPoC creatives in the fields of architecture and design visible to younger audiences. We believe that self-identification is crucial to forming the belief that being a BIPoC creative is possible. We aspire to provide free information and professional advice that address the barriers to entry and success for emerging BIPoC creatives in an intimate format.
- Black Females in Architecture: Black Females in Architecture has created a BFA Donation Pot for BFA Members participating in advocacy and outreach opportunities. BFA does not advocate or support participation in all-white-male panels and non-renumerated opportunities to our network. We do not wish to perpetuate exploitative practices and have found this to be a recurring theme within our industry. However, if you are a grassroots organisation, business and/or network who cannot cover costs for a BFA member, but wishes to have better diversity on their panel or within their creative opportunities, BFA aims to use the BFA Donation Pot. The BFA Donation Pot will ensure BFA Members are renumerated for their time, energy and labour.
- Cal Poly Pomona: B.L.A.C.K. in L.A. Fellowship: (Bravely Leading Advancement, Curiosity, and Knowledge in Landscape Architecture) To address the history of racism and discrimination in planning and design practices of the past, the profession of landscape architecture must broaden career opportunities and amplify voices, experiences, and perspectives beyond what is found in the current discourse of environmental design.
- Black Reconstruction Collective: The Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) provides funding, design, and intellectual support to the ongoing and incomplete project of emancipation for the African Diaspora. The BRC is committed to multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary work dedicated to dismantling systemic white supremacy and hegemonic whiteness within art, design, and academia. Founded by a group of Black architects, artists, designers, and scholars, the BRC aims to amplify knowledge production and spatial practices by individuals and organizations that further the reconstruction project.
- BlackSpace Urbanist Collective: Our collective brings together planners, architects, artists, and designers as Black urbanists. We created the BlackSpace Manifesto to practice new ways of protecting and creating Black spaces in the built environment. Through customized learning, published content, neighborhood strategy, and urbanist experiences, BlackSpace co-creates spaces for new ideas, critical connections, and design excellence that acknowledge, affirm and amplify the lives of Black folks nationally. This campaign is a space for our supporters to contribute to our operational needs as we build.
Table of Contents:
Black architects, designers, planners, activists' recent responses, reflections, statements
Firms/practices currently offering pro bono services
Firms/practices currently taking actions (e.g. matching donations)
Resources about offering pro bono services
Examples of pro bono services you and/or your firm/practice/collective can offer
Examples of fellowships/internships your firm can offer to Black students
Support Black and Indigenous designers, especially our colleagues, with opportunities like these!
For non-Black and white folks organizing within our firms/practices/collectives
Additional resources
List of Black organizers/leadership
List of Black-led firms/practices/collectives
List of architecture/design organizations doing anti-racism work in academic institutions
List of architecture/design organizations doing anti-racism work in the field at large
List of organizations to follow on social media
Past Events
Past Opportunities
Non-exhaustive list of Black architects, designers, planners, activists’ recent responses, reflections, statements to listen to, share, discuss, internalize, take direction from and act on:
- adrienne marie brown: “adrienne maree brown on creating the future” (6/19/2020)
- Armando Sullivan: "How can we design for Black futures?" (12/11/2020)
- Ayana Belk: "Here's to Black Landscape Architecture Students" (2/21/2021)
- BlackArc: “Notes from a Black woman in architecture/design” (6/6/2020)
- Black Reconstruction Collective: How Can Blackness Construct America? (3/11/2021)
- Black Reconstruction Collective: After MoMA, the Black Reconstruction Collective Plots Its Future (6/7/2021)
- Brentin Mock: “The City Planners’ Case for Defunding the Police” (8/6/2020)
- Bryan Lee Jr: “America’s Cities Were Designed to Oppress” (6/3/2020)
- Bryan Lee Jr: “Bryan C. Lee on Design Justice and Architecture’s Role in Systemic Racism” (6/18/2020)
- Bryan Lee Jr: “This architect is using design justice to empower communities through outdoor spaces” (12/15/2020)
- Bryan Lee Jr: “The Black New Deal: Bryan C. Lee on challenging the power structures that use architecture and design as tools of oppression” (4/30/2021)
- Carmeon Hamilton: “What a Black Interior Designer Wants from the Interior Design Industry and Design Publications” (6/8/2020)
- Chris Rudd: "The anti-capitalist face of design" (1/5/2021)
- Craig Wilkins: “It’s Time for Architects to Accept Responsibility” (7/21/2020)
- De Nichols: Unconference: Social Justice with De Nichols (8/22/2020)
- Design As Protest Collective: Harvard GSD: “Design as Protest: How can designers stand for, fight for, and build an anti-racist future?” (6/22/2020)
- Design As Protest Collective: Notes on Insurrection (2/11/2021)
- Design As Protest Collective: In Solidarity: DAP Condemns Anti-Asian Violence (3/3/2021)
- Design As Protest Collective: Notes on Voter Suppression in Georgia / Jim Crow 2.0 (4/2/2021)
- Design As Protest Collective, Families for Justice As Healing, Building Up People Not Prisons: "Design Firm Wants to Build ‘Feminist’ Jails and Prisons. Abolitionists Say ‘No.’" (8/21/2022)
- Design Futures Institute, Pierce Gordon, Rhonda Holberton: Z-TOPIA - "Racist designs, Design Justice and Mycelium" (10/22/2020)
- Designing Justice + Designing Spaces: “Unbuilding Racism” (6/4/2020)
- Designing Justice + Designing Spaces: "Black History Now: How Visionary Architect Deanna Van Buren Is Reimagining What Justice Looks Like" (2/10/2022)
- Destiny Thomas: “‘Safe Streets’ Are Not Safe for Black Lives” (6/8/2020)
- Dori Tunstall: How OCAD’s Dori Tunstall is rewriting the rules of design education (8/19/2020)
- Duron Chavis: "Why Does Black Space Matter?" (11/4/2020)
- Elleza Kelley: "No Man's Land: The architecture of abolition" (12/8/2020)
- Felema Yemaneberhan: “We Wouldn’t Be Here if They Just Told Us the Truth About Great Zimbabwe” (7/20/2020)
- FWD/: Edition 05: Read the Room (7/7/2020)
- Germane Barnes: "Design Justice action items" (6/4/2020)
- Germane Barnes: Urblandia: “Architecture and the Social Justice Narrative” (6/9/2020)
- Gregory Minott: Op-Ed: The future of our profession depends on diversity (10/26/2020)
- Ibrahim Greenidge: The 6-Foot Fence (10/8/2020)
- Imani Day: “Building a Centralized Equity Framework into Architecture” (7/28/2020)
- Jack Travis: “Jack Travis and the Search for a Black Architecture” (10/16/2020)
- Jay Cephas: On “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America” (4/19/2021)
- Jonathan Moody: "For Moody Nolan—the Largest Black-Owned Architectural Firm in the U.S.—Diversity Is Power" (9/17/2020)
- Jonathan Moody: “Be Wary of Normal” (6/16/2021)
- Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone: “Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership?” (6/18/2020)
- Kaci Taylor: "Colorado’s Only Black, Female Architect on Designing an Inclusive World" (7/30/2020)
- Kendall A. Nicholson: "Where Are My People? Black in Architecture" (8/1/2020)
- Kofi Boone: Lamcast: “Kofi Boone on BLM’s Challenge to Landscape Architecture” (6/4/2020)
- Kofi Boone: "Notes Toward a History of Black Landscape Architecture" (10/2020)
- Kimberly Dowdell: “Racism is built into U.S. cities. Here’s how architects can fight back” (6/3/2020)
- Kimberly Dowdell: “Kimberly Dowdell Asks: Will You Join Us?” (8/12/2020)
- Kimberly Dowdell, Bryan Lee Jr, Richie Hands, Kwesi Daniels: "How Do We Elevate the Next Generation of Architects of Color?" (8/12/2020)
- Lesley Lokko: “Lesley Lokko resigns as dean of architecture at New York's City College in ‘profound act of self-preservation’” (10/12/2020)
- Lesley Lokko: "'Race is never far from the surface': Lesley Lokko on quitting New York" (10/20/2020)
- Lesley Lokko: "Tomorrow’s world: nurturing young talent and voices" (11/2/2020)
- Lesley Lokko: Founding the Future: Lesley Lokko talks to AN about race, academia, and starting an architecture school in Ghana (1/29/2021)
- Mabel O. Wilson: The Institute of Black Imagination podcast: Episode 2 (6/6/2020)
- Mabel O. Wilson, Akira Drake Rodriguez, Bryan Lee Jr: The Midnight Charette Design and Architecture Show: #184 - “Racism and Cities with Mabel O. Wilson, Akira Drake Rodriguez, and Bryan Lee” (6/23/2020)
- Mabel O. Wilson, Mario Gooden, Justin Garrett Moore: Three Scholars Discuss Racism and Whiteness in the Built Environment (7/30/2020)
- Mathias Agbo, Jr.: "Public Protests and the Urban Legacies of Colonialism and Military Dictatorship in Nigeria" (10/25/2020)
- Michael Ford: “Architects, Designers and Planners: #BlackLivesMatter and You Must Speak Up!” (6/2/2020)
- Michael Ford: “All I Can Do Is Not Enough Yet” (7/30/2021)
- M, Neelika Jayawardane, Rinaldo Walcott: "Diversity efforts in universities are nothing but façade painting" (5/7/2021)
- Naila Opiangah: “To Architects and Designers Leading the Industry” (6/3/2020)
- Naila Opiangah: "I long for the day where suppressing my identity is no longer part of the job" (9/1/2020)
- NOMA: NOMA’s Public Statement Regarding Racial Injustice (5/31/2020)
- Olalekan Jeyifous: Curbed: “Olalekan Jeyifous Is Imagining an Afrofuturist Brooklyn” (7/1/2020)
- Pascale Sablan: “Balancing Act: Pascale Sablan on Advocacy and Action” (6/9/2020)
- Pascale Sablan: “Pascale Sablan on Architecture’s Role in Fueling Social Change” (7/10/2020)
- Pascale Sablan: “Architect-Advocate Pascale Sablan Is Revising The History Of The Built Environment” (9/26/2020)
- Peter Robinson: “Peter Robinson on Building Trust, Black Spaces, and Black Futures in Brooklyn” (12/17/2020)
- Pierce Gordon: “A Hundred Racist Designs” (8/2/2020)
- Schessa Garbutt: “Black Lives Matter is Not a Design Challenge” (6/2/2020)
- Schessa Garbutt: “Black Lives Matter is Not a Design Sprint” (6/22/2020)
- Sekou Cooke: “Blackout — Amplifying the Voices of Blackness Within Architecture” (6/4/2020)
- Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton: “Threading the Needle of Opportunity” (9/20/2021)
- The Johnson Study Group: Open Letter to the Museum of Modern Art (11/27/2020)
- Tamika L. Butler, Justin Garrett Moore: The Emotional Labor of Participation: Tamika L. Butler and Justin Garrett Moore in Conversation (2/8/2021)
- Tiffany Brown: “Stepping Up: Tiffany Brown on Leadership and Opportunity” (6/10/2020)
- Tobi Sobowale: “Why I need to see more black faces in architecture” (7/27/2020)
- V. Mitch McEwen: "Form Follows Fascism Redux" (1/7/2021)
- WAI Think Tank: A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education (10/25/2020)
- WAI Think Tank: "What is to be done?" (4/19/2021)
- Walter Hood: Interview with Walter Hood on History and Race in Landscape Design (8/4/2020)
- Wandile Mthiyane: "I Grew Up Where Architecture Was Designed to Oppress": Wandile Mthiyane on Social Impact and Learning from South Africa (9/17/2020)
- Wandile Mthiyane: “The Architects of Systemic Racism” (7/1/2020)
- Vanessa Newman: “To White and Non-Black People of Color Designers” (6/10/2020)
- (various): 15 Architects on Being Black in Architecture (8/6/2020)
- (various): "10 new rules of design" (12/10/2020)
- (various): 16 Black-Led Design Firms You Need to Know (12/7/2020)
- (various): Celebrate and Follow These 6 Black Architects (2/3/2021)
- (various): 10 Black Architects Making History Today (3/4/2021)
Firms/practices currently offering pro bono services:
- EDUCATION: THIS X THAT: Friday Studio Visits: Consulting for BIPOC Architecture Practitioners - “Beginning in October 2020, THIS X THAT will offer weekly hour-long pro bono consulting slots on Fridays to emerging Black, Indigenous, and POC architecture practitioners working or studying in the United States. One slot will be made available weekly on a first-come first-served basis, and we especially welcome interest from those who have recently started, or who are considering starting, their own studios. We can advise on broader questions about breaking out on your own and developing your own practice, or specific questions on everything from assembling a press kit to social media practices.”
- NATIONAL: Design to Divest - “We are a task force of designers who meet weekly to design graphics, fliers, illustrations, signage, educational materials, etc. free of charge for Black organizers, collectives, and local orgs building towards the divestment of capitalism and white supremacist structures.”
- “For Designers: We meet virtually every Friday at 9am EST. DM @fiveboi or email vans.newman@gmail.com for the RSVP and meeting link.”
- “For Organizers in Need of Design: Email vans.newman@gmail.com with your design needs and we will work on them at our next meetup!”
- NATIONAL: Collective Power Design - “We are a collective of creative people who contribute our skills and time to the advancement of BIPOC-owned businesses.” Follow the link to fill out a form, or email collectivepowerdesign@gmail.com.
- NATIONAL: Design Advocates - “We assembled to provide a platform for advocacy, resources and data for our community in response to pandemic. We are providing pro bono design services through our Test Fits Initiative which was developed as a way to leverage the creative energy and collaborative spirit of Design Advocates to serve local businesses, non-profits, and institutions in New York and beyond and to help them to respond to the crisis, adapt their spaces and operations for reopening, and to create strategies to ensure for safe and comfortable continuing operation.”
- NATIONAL: Visible Studio - “Visible Studio is a 501(c)(3) non-profit creative studio that provides logo and websites free of charge to BIPoC businesses and causes, and paid internships with the goal to increase representation within the design industry. Visible Studio provides two types of creative services: Branding (logos) and CMS websites of less than eight pages. We accept 4 projects each quarter, and projects take 12 weeks each to complete. Contact : Jen Thomas: jen@visiblealliance.org”
- CHICAGO: Latent Design - “Dear Chicago, If your business was damaged this past week and you need help with permits or the city requires you to have an architect to rebuild, we will do it pro bono. Offer open as long as needed.”
- LOS ANGELES: Co—Conspirator Press - “Free print services for LA organizations and activists supporting the BLM movement”
- LOS ANGELES: Open Architecture Collaborative Los Angeles - “Calling all architects and designers: Help LA small businesses renovate and rebuild. We are working with the city of Los Angeles to build a list of architects/designers who can help renovate and restore small businesses affected by current events. Please contact us if you'd like more information on helping our city in this time of need. Sign up at www.oacla.org or email us at info@oacla.org.”
- LOS ANGELES: New School - “As we at New School have been asking ourselves what part we can play (however small) in helping to counteract the disenfranchisement that has stymied the Black community for decades, we are offering our business services, for FREE, for the remainder of this year to any Black-owned (or aspiring) restaurant or bar. This will include: Concept Development, Market Analysis, Financial Planning, Spatial and Schematic Planning, Menu Engineering, Design Direction (Graphic & Interior), HR and Training Support.” Link for more details and to get in touch.
- NEW YORK: Ten to One - “Ten to One offers pro bono design services for underserved black communities primarily in Brooklyn New York and also Philadelphia, New Orleans. We are looking for new ways to provide services now.” You can get in touch with them at info@tenonearch.com or phone (347) 763-2490.
- NEW YORK: HUXHUX Design - “We are offering our interior design services free of charge to a black-owned business in New York City. As a small design studio, we want to directly apply our skill sets to help a black-owned business launch / grow / thrive. If you are interested in working with us, please email: idg@huxhux.com. [See linked Instagram post for details of submission.] We will accept applications until July 1 and will make a decision by July 15.”
- PHILADELPHIA: Ten to One - “Ten to One offers pro bono design services for underserved black communities primarily in Brooklyn New York and also Philadelphia, New Orleans. We are looking for new ways to provide services now.” You can get in touch with them at info@tenonearch.com or phone (347) 763-2490.
- BAY AREA: 2727 California Street - “FREE PRINTING 8.5 x 11" / 11 x 17" for EAST BAY PROTESTERS. Please email hello@companion-platform.org if you have any questions, or if it's easiest to send us the files directly. Our love, thought, and attention is with everyone on the front lines of this refusal.”
- BAY AREA: kbmd@spaceindustri.es - limited capacity, reach out for free printing!
- BAY AREA: Blake Marvin - “Everyone deserves to be recognized for their work. I’m offering up my services to any Bay Area architect or design professional free of charge. Contact me and let’s create something beautiful together.”
- BAY AREA/LOS ANGELES: BAR Architects - 900 hours pledged annually, with 45+ employees participating. 1+ profile here.
- SEATTLE/PACIFIC NORTHWEST: christa.wood@perkinswill.com - “I am an architect at Perkins and Will, in the Seattle Studio, and co-lead our studio’s probono efforts. Every year each studio location (in North America) donate pro-bono architecture and design services for projects that serve non-profits in our local communities. . The pro-bono support that we offer is intended to provide broader access to design services, and we are always working to make new connections and meet new partners. Services provided include a wide range, from marketing graphics and concept studies for fundraising efforts, through to design documentation, permitting, and construction oversight.”
- NEW YORK: SILMAN - Silman - Silman's Building Equity Initiative provides pro-bono or low-bono professional engineering services to support the efforts of non-profits and public programs. The goal of our efforts is to utilize our design skillset to create spaces that strengthen communities and contribute to societal equity, particularly in the areas of housing, education, healthcare, and access to culture." You can get in touch with them at buildingequityinitiative@silman.com
Firms/practices currently taking action in solidarity with the movement for Black lives:
- Tanager Creative - “Tanager will match up to $1000 in donations toward fighting racism and inequality today. DM or email your receipts to info@tanager.org. Link in (Instagram) bio for places to donate.”
- Studio Tack - matching employees’ donations
- Square Feet Studio - matching employees’ donations
- TERREMOTO LANDSCAPE - “We came to two paths of action as a team, which we are enacting immediately. First, all Terremotos now get 40 hours PTO per year that is to be used for self-chosen volunteer work. Second, all future design contracts will carry a small Social Justice Surcharge. Depending on the size of the design fee proposal, that surcharge will be either 1K, 2K or 3K. That money will then go into a bank account and sit there until we, as a team, find the right cause to support. Scholarships sound good, supporting organizations doing good work sounds good, we will see. If potential clients don’t like it, we probably don’t want to work with them anyways 😎. So those are our first two steps, and we plan to continue the conversation as an office, forever. What are other design offices doing, please share! Let’s get better, together, change is an experiment, we have to try a million things, transparency is key.”
Resources about offering pro bono services:
- American Institute of Architects guidelines for pro bono services
- Architects Assist (Australia) - can we get this running here + in solidarity with / in defense of Black Lives?
- OnePlus (1+) - 1+ challenges designers to dedicate 1% or more of working hours to pro bono service and connects nonprofits with pro bono design services.
- Example: LAWYERS - public defenders and immigration lawyers offering pro bono services, joining demonstrations as legal observers, the National Lawyers Guild
- Example: LICENSED THERAPISTS - providing free sessions to Black communities
- Example: PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS - over 1200+ signed an open letter advocating for an anti-racist public health response to demonstrations against systemic injustice occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Example: MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS - providing advice and joining demonstrations as street medics
- Given the example of other professions, what are the immediate actions we will take and the immediate services we will provide to this movement?
Examples of pro bono services you and/or your firm/practice/collective can offer:
Note: This is a working list of potential pro bono services that can be offered by architectural workers/design professionals in solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives and in defense of Black Life. Intention is to have language be accessible to folks without design backgrounds (i.e. instead of “design development” etc., break it down to concrete tasks).
- Graphic Design / Visualization
- Visualizing data
- Generating images for signage, social media posts, etc
- Visualizing relationships between objects, bodies, space, urban form, etc.
- Organizing, utilizing GIS data
- Producing floor plans, maps, routes for demonstrations
- Identifying dimensions, distances, square footage
- Zoning, diagramming spaces for demonstrations
- Assessing outdoor spaces and plans for accessibility (wheelchairs, strollers)
- Producing grading plans (landforms)
- Reparative Construction Guidance
- Initial consultation, walk-throughs
- Permit Preparation/Support
- Construction/technical drawings
- Design/re-design drawings
- Material sourcing and guidance
- Coordinating work among design collaborators (e.g. builder and engineer)
- Draft and/or review project proposals, invoices, etc.
Examples of fellowships/internships your firm can offer to Black students THIS SUMMER and beyond:
- NOMA awards 25 fellowships across 5 cities; 12-week paid internship with housing stipend, plus additional $1,000 licensure stipend for students who fulfill all NCARB licensure requirements within 5 years of the fellowship.
- Which firms can match this by providing even one comparable fellowship this year? This type of fellowship actively works to disrupt systemic barriers that Black students disproportionately face along the entire academic and professional tracks. This is a longer game tactic and part of the same movement!
APPLY FOR THESE OPPORTUNITIES:
- SAH will award three fellowships for 2023. Each fellowship includes a one-time award of $1,000 and a commitment of close mentorship from a senior colleague from the SAH community to be paired with the fellow for the duration of one year. The fellowship also involves guided lateral interaction across the cohort, in order to encourage peer support. Awardees and mentors will commit to regular meetings throughout the year. SAH offers one year of digital membership to awardees.
- The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is looking for our next Executive Director, to guide the organization into a new chapter in its story. This is a rare and exciting opportunity for a leader to work with our highly skilled and committed staff and our deeply engaged board to build on CUP’s legacy of using design to support meaningful, community-led change.
- The 2022 Design Competition is now available! The brief can be downloaded here or by contacting your regional University Liaison. This year's competition is a new cultural center and bridge for the community of North Nashville. Teams must submit their intent to compete along with their 2022 Chapter Report by May 1.
- We are currently seeking a passionate and committed Design Justice Architect to join us in our design justice work. We are a small, versatile team of designers who make a big impact through architecture, urban planning, and community advocacy. We work on a diverse range of projects that use design in the built environment as a tool to advance social equity. These project types include affordable housing, housing solutions, education, equitable development, advocacy and policy, community space, equitable transit, social justice, healthy food access, and land use & real estate.
- Creative Reaction Lab is dedicated to uplifting young people and further establishing their agency to become strong change-makers in their community. The Youth Creative Leadership Fund is a program designed to support young people in producing their own creative projects that address racial and health inequities in their communities. See examples throughout this webpage of the different youth-led and developed projects that have been supported. Applications are open on a rolling acceptance basis.
The Board of Directors is seeking a progressive Executive Director (ED) to provide the visionary leadership, management, and planning necessary to ensure that the organization is strategically positioned to continue its support of community-led change, civic engagement, and large-scale participatory planning and policymaking.
- Hiring Executive/Administrative Assistant, Materials Assistant/Laborer, and Construction Lead
- Hiring for Chief Financial Officer, Communications Coordinator, Executive Assistant, Intermediate Architectural Associate, and Project Architect
- The Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation (AHPF) invites candidates to apply for its first Executive Director. This position is funded with support from the National Trust for Historic Preservation African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. Reporting to the AHPF Board of Directors, the Executive Director provides leadership in the revitalization and preservation of historical Africatown. The Executive Director will play a significant role in the development of an engaged and energetic board and demonstrate experience in building a coalition among different organizations and/or people and uniting their unique missions and interests in pursuit of cementing the cultural, educational, environmental, and economic prosperity of Africatown. Included in this coalition are Africatown descendants and residents as well as supportive organizations locally and around the globe.
- We're currently working on national and global multi-platform participatory art projects and are looking for people who feel the urgency to break down the complexities of social issues and build visibility, accountability, and solidarity around them. We’re accepting applications for a Community Manager, Social Media Manager, Deaf Community Coordinator, Hearing Community Coordinator, Architectural/Urban Designer, and Graphic Designer. To apply, applicants should send a short cover letter, resume, and relevant work samples to pjg-jobs@media.mit.edu.
- Black Futures Lab works with Black people to transform our communities, building Black political power and changing the way that power operates—locally, statewide, and nationally.
- Hiring Deputy Director, Finance Director, Communications Associate, Executive Manager to the Principal, Organizer (Columbus, GA), Communications Team Manager
- The Incubator has been created to explore how Indigenous community organizations can facilitate and nurture a positive relationship to land and waters for Residential School Survivors, Sixties Scoop Survivors, and their families.
- This Land Education Design Incubator is intended for organizations that are:
- Indigenous-led and that support or serve Indigenous communities
- Working to support Residential School Survivors, Sixties Scoop Survivors, and their families/would aspire to be working with Survivors.
- Wanting to offer or explore the possibility of offering land-based programming
- Our fund, Liberated Capital, is excited to announce a funding opportunity in partnership with Jubilee Justice and New Communities to redistribute $1 million to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) -led efforts for food and land justice and sovereignty in the United States.
- We seek candidates whose research or professional/creative practice explores issues of equity and access within design, business, and/or management fields while responding to structures of privilege and power as they relate to those issues. Candidates should demonstrate a desire to collaboratively discover and prototype next-generation practices in one or more of the following areas: leadership, futuring, transition design, entrepreneurship, inclusive and/or sustainable business development, organizational change, organizational identity, culture and communication, social innovation, alternative financing, business modeling, open source ecosystem development, blockchain technologies and platforms, policy, and/or value-chain management. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work centers communities that are underrepresented in the fields of business, management, art, and/or design.
For non-Black and white folks organizing within our firms/practices/collectives:
Drawing from the guidance and leadership of Black organizers and communities, advice for white and non-Black people making public statements about racial justice is to be as direct and incisive as we can. This serves to not center our feelings (which we can and should process, but not in ways that unduly burden Black communities), and to make space for Black folks' experiences, narratives, messaging, etc.
A possible framework for your firm’s statement is:
- Swiftly write and publish a to-the-point, emphatic statement (condemn state-sanctioned murder of Black lives, declare solidarity with Movement for Black Lives, call out white supremacy, call in ourselves to take action)
- Redirect folks to
- Black leadership to follow (i.e. websites and social media handles, see below)
- Immediate tangible actions to take (i.e. petitions, fundraisers, local demonstrations, etc.)
- Actions your firm will take to internally address racial justice and do anti-racist work in the short- and long-term
- SoCalNOMA is launching the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Challenge (DEI Challenge), as an initiative for architecture, engineering, construction, and related firms to voluntarily support the following measures to transform the diversity of their firms and the AEC community in a way that is holistic, firm-wide, and data-driven.
- E.g. Provide mental health access to your Black employees
- E.g. Hire WMBE’s (Women/Minority Business Enterprise) for public contracts in meaningful, high-fee roles
- E.g. Offer your local communities pro bono services
- E.g. Build relationships with HBCUs
- Introduction to Equity-Centered Community Design
- How Traditional Design Thinking Protects White Supremacy
- Beyond Diversity: Promoting Retention and Equitable Org Culture
- Normal Doesn’t Exist: Developing Our Perspectives, Power, and Socialization
- Centering Power & Healing: Black, Brown, + Indigenous People of Color (BBIPOC) as Leaders in the Equity Movement
- Listening More + Speaking Less: White* Folx as Allies for Equitable Outcomes
- There is no need to process, dwell on, and/or center white and non-Black feelings and experiences within such a statement.
Additional resources:
Statements
Syllabi
Readings
- “Black Landscapes Matter” (Kofi Boone for Ground Up Journal)
- Co-Designing Black Neighborhood Heritage Conservation Playbook (BlackSpace x Made in Brownsville)
- “What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design?” (Ahmed Ansari)
- “Why Can’t the US Decolonize Its Design Education?” (AIGA Eye on Design panel)
- Design Justice Library 2020 (organized by Emily Acosta)
- The Planner's Beginner Guide to the #BlackLivesMatter Movement (Danielle Dirksen)
- “Everyday Urban Planning Vocab/Theory for the Anti-racist” (Savanna Lim)
- Black Landscapes Matter (Walter Hood / forthcoming)
- “Black Towns, Black Futures” (Karla Slocum)
- “The House that Race Built” (Toni Morrison)
- “An Aesthetic of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture and Music” (Craig L. Wilkins)
- “Design Thinking is a Rebrand for White Supremacy” (Darin Buzon)
- “Dismantling White Supremacy Culture Within AIGA” (George Aye)
- “Design Leadership: Now What?” (Jennifer Rittner)
- Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Sasha Costanza-Chock)
- "Frames: seeing colorblind racism in architectural design" (Dissent by Design)
- “The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture” (SURJ)
- “Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization” (Crossroads Ministry)
- “Mónica Ponce de León on the Future of Architectural Licensure” (Archinect)
- How To Retain Black Talent in the Workplace (@socialFIXT)
- The Visibility Project (Yale NOMAS, Equity by Design, Paprika)
- The Color Of Law (Richard Rothstein)
- Whitney Young’s 1968 AIA Convention Speech
- “Systemic Inequality: Displacement, Exclusion, and Segregation” (Danyelle Solomon, Connor Maxwell, and Abril Castro)
- “Why Justice in Design Is Critical to Repairing America" (Meaghan O'Neill)
- The Settler Colonial Present (The Settler Colonial City Project and e-flux Architecture)
- "Why the term “BIPOC” is so complicated, explained by linguists" (Constance Grady for Vox)
- “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation” (Richard Frishman in NY Times)
- "Abolish the Cop Inside Your (Designer's) Head" (Sarah Fathallah, A.D. Sean Lewis)
- “Racial Trauma in Film: How Viewers Can Address Re-traumatization” (Counseling@Northwestern)
Watch/Listen
Maps:
Social Media & Beyond:
Design Resources:
- BLK IMG (Black people as entourage for architectural renderings)
- BLK IMG ethos: “If the power of an image lies in how one perceives oneself through that same image, then this perception shapes the way we idealize our futures. In this constant state of flux, our images become a revival for the under-represented and under-acknowledged; Reminders of the space we have claimed for ourselves to model a future that celebrates and uplifts us. We believe in the power of creating our own imagery to explore the design of multiple idealized futures. In an effort to reclaim our narrative we celebrate the invisibles with the representation of black and brown bodies through our digital catalog of over 350 cutouts from all over the world. We believe in the power of creating our own imagery through a collaborative process that uncovers hidden ideas capable of creating unlimited frontiers.”
- Kaleidoscope (BIPOC, non-binary, body positive people as entourage)
- Nonscandinavia (non-white people as entourage)
- Escalalatina (BIPOC Latin American people as entourage)
- nappy (Free, beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people)
- Vector Vault (Cracking open the vault: working to make architectural visualization more diverse one vector at a time.)
- Black Illustrations (illustrations of Black people)
- People PNG (downloadable png files of BIPOC people)
- Project Archive (open-sourced, online index of “precedents” or architecture examples that draws on non-Western forms)
- Peopling Studio (diversifying digital representation and acknowledging bias embedded in photorealistic CGI)
General (for non-Black and white folks)
- A growing resource for learning about anti-racism, and supporting the people & organizations doing important work for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Non-exhaustive list of Black organizations/leadership to listen to and follow:
(VERY) Non-exhaustive list of Black-led firms/practices/collectives to listen to, work with, hire, and follow (please suggest more):
**and licensed Black architects in the Directory of African American Architects (now hosted by NOMA)
**and Beyond the Built Environment’s Great Diverse Designers Library
**and a larger list of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) owned studios
**and 200+ Black Creators
**and the Social Change by Design Database v2 (by Greater Good Studio; includes non-Black folks)
Non-exhaustive list of architecture/design organizations doing anti-racism work within academic institutions:
- McGill University community
- Princeton School of Architecture community
- risdARC (Rhode Island School of Design)
- RSA (Rice University School of Architecture)
- SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
- UCLA AUD community generally (UCLA AUD)
- YSoA community generally (Yale SoA)
Non-exhaustive list of architecture/design organizations doing anti-racism work in the field at large:
- Experiential learning of anti-racist practices to change workplace culture in design and architecture.
- Our mission is to educate, train, and challenge Black and Latinx youth to become leaders in designing healthy and racially equitable communities.
- Using the city as the classroom, and connecting young people to real world architects and planners, we foster the next generation of design professionals, civic leaders, and changemakers.
- We’re dreaming of a future where Black womxn are redefining and designing what it means to be well.
- Our mission is to champion racial, cultural, and class diversity at ALL levels of landscape architecture education and practice.
- A platform dedicated to advancing equity in imagemaking.
- LoL is a spreadsheet that sheds light on what it means to be a landscape architect today. Please contact landscape.of.labor@gmail.com with questions, feedback, ideas.
- We are designers of color working with communities of color to green cities for ALL.
- Design for Black Lives is a grassroots organization promoting change through accessible and free design. Connecting organizers, activists, and minority small-business owners with skilled pro-bono creatives, Design for Black Lives has worked on over 100 projects globally.
- In 2020, in order to strengthen our ties and increase our visibility, we launched the network Black Creative Builders. This new network aims to connect young Black professionals from the African diaspora who are working in the building industry (planning, construction, interior design, landscape design, architectural engineering, urbanism, environmental design etc.) in Europe and give them an opportunity to claim their space. This network is an effort to strive for diverse representation and recognise Black professionals. We are very much concerned with issues of social and racial justice, equity and sustainability in the building industry.
Non-exhaustive list of organizations to follow on social media:
Past Events:
- This is happening week of 6/1-6/5, amplify & direct folks to immediately follow Black leadership's organizing
- Immediate actions for week of 6/1-6/5 outlined by M4BL
- What is your firm/practice/collective doing to strengthen the academic pipeline for underrepresented students and future practitioners?
- Organized by Black design professionals
- Call For Submissions Launch: Saturday, June 6
- Submissions Due: Friday, June 19, 2020 (8pm EST)
- How can we use Art and Media to uplift movements working to create futures where all are equitably cared for and free to thrive?
- The Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes and the Resilient Cities Catalyst are mobilizing creative people to collaborate with community-based organizations to remake the public realm. The Resilience Design Corps intends to be an evolving bench of artists, designers, planners, technologists, engineers, graphic designers and others who have skills and are willing to volunteer their time and talent to support community-based projects.
- Join Deem Journal and MOLD magazine in a roundtable discussion about emergent strategies for designing futures where life is precious and creativity is a political act.
- Recording of event here
- Register and use our platforms to unequivocally call for dismantling the privilege and power structures that use architecture and design as a tool of oppression!
- Recording of event here
- Register and use our platforms to unequivocally call for dismantling the privilege and power structures that use architecture and design as a tool of oppression!
- Recording of event here
- Introduction: Kimberly Dowdell, NOMA President and Jason Pugh, NOMA President-Elect. Presenters: June Grant, NOMA, RA, SF NOMA President and Conference Co-Chair, and Blink Lab founder, and Rod Henmi, NOMA, FAIA, LEED AP, SF NOMA Conference Co-chair, and HKIT Design Director.
- Panel discussion with Angela Brooks (Brooks + Scarpa); Lance Collins (President SoCalNOMA (National Organization of Minority Architects), Partner Energy); Alvin Huang (Graduate Chair/USC, SDA, NOMA); Roger Sherman (Gensler); Lance Simon (Egan/Simon, NOMA).
- Organized by Frances Anderton (KCRW DnA); Eletrice Harris (Vice President, SoCalNOMA); and Stephen Phillips (Cal Poly LA Metro Program).
- What effect does harnessing the unlimited potential of a more diverse architectural profession have on our cities and communities? The third conversation organised by the Young Trustees explores ways that we can push for change within the profession, as well as the opportunities this change creates for the outcomes of our work. They will be joined by Gurmeet Sian, founder of Office Sian, Alisha Morenike Fisher, co-founder of Black Females in Architecture and Migrants Bureau and Ken Okonkwo, Associate Director at Haworth Tompkins and architectural advisory board member of the Stephen Lawrence Trust.
- “This is an informal, social and digital meet-up for BFA members to share how we’re feeling and what we’d like BFA to provide in these uncertain times.” Sign up before 12pm GMT +1 Thursday 18th June to receive a link for the event! Note: You need to be a registered BFA Member to join this event. If you have not registered yet, email membership@blackfemarc.com.
- You will receive 1.0 PDH (LA CES) Credit.
- Panel: Fred Brown, Breeze Outlaw, and Vernice Miller-Travis. Moderator: Kofi Boone, ASLA
- Panel: Jacqueline Francis, Michele Washington, June Grant, Raja Schaar, Jennifer Rittner, Noel Mayo, Moderated by: Ricardo Gomes, Melina Jones
- Respondents include Prasad Boradker (ASU / Google ATAP), Joseph Grima (Design Academy Eindhoven), Lily Huang (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Marcia Lausen (the University of Illinois at Chicago), Jesse LeCavalier (University of Toronto), Lesley Lokko (City College of New York), Ana Miljacki (MIT), Lisa Norton (New School/Parsons), Ramon Tejada (RISD) and others. This event will be moderated by Keith Krumwiede, Dean of Architecture and Helen Maria Nugent, Dean of Design at California College of the Arts.
- Last call we organized ourselves into interest areas so we will be in breakout rooms working together to move towards a set of objectives in the categories set out. We will walk through the organizing structure of this collective and start to determine who wants to lead what action items.
- Leaders from both organizations will provide a (very) quick review of our previous Town Hall and Listening Session on Racial Injustice. Then, participants will split up into three breakout groups addressing different areas to change: (1) Creating Opportunities for Individuals within the Profession (2) Support Communities through Architecture (3) Advocating for Changes at the Civic Level.
- Join other ACD members to hear what the Board has been up to this past year, share your thoughts and insights into how to improve our Community of Practice, and get to know a new person!
- Recording of event here
- Please join us for the student showcase and SoCal NOMA commemoration of the Class of 2020. This virtual showcase is for students to show their final spring semester projects at the June monthly chapter meeting for prizes and recognition. Please RSVP with link bio to attend and receive log-in information for Zoom and Conceptboard.
- With Rebecca Lewin, Dr. Caroline Cornish, and Seetal Solanki
- Bryan Lee, Jr. of Colloqate Design will present and moderate a panel discussion with three large-firm architects: Andre Brumfield, Assoc. AIA, of Gensler; R. Steven Lewis, FAIA, NOMA, of ZGF Architects; Rosa Sheng, FAIA, of SmithGroup.
- Recording of event here
- Black designers: DM your poster asking, “Where are the Black designers?”, to their Instagram; they will post every poster up until June 27th. Include the company you'd like them to @. Head over now to see instructions and examples.
- ADPSR has been calling on design professionals to boycott the design of prisons since 2004, and we have been petitioning the American Institute of Architects AIA to end the design of execution chambers and spaces for solitary confinement since 2013. Join our webinar where you’ll learn about the history of ADPSR and our campaign to the AIA to prohibit the design of death chambers and solitary confinement facilities. We will come together in solidarity and form regional support for the campaign.
- Prescott Reavis, Leopold Ray-Lynch, June A. Grant, Lauren Jordan, Jeremiah Tolbert, Devi Dutta-Choudhury
- Recording of event here
- Who has the right to live in cities? We are all familiar with the issues of spiralling rents, loss of truly ‘public' space and the steady creep of gentrification that displaces marginalised communities in cities across the globe. More information here.
- BBE will host a national call to explain and give context to each initiative. SAY IT WITH - MEdia MOU, SAY IT LOUD – NOW, Data to Define Policy.
- As ID continues our strong commitment to championing equitable and fair infrastructures, we understand there is a lot of work to be done. Embracing an anti-racist agenda is the first step towards this future. Join us in conversation with Christina Harrington, Norman Teague, and Chris Rudd.
- Designing in Color: “Imposter Syndrome” in Design - 7/7 7pm CST
- Meeting ID: 983 3536 9762 ; Password: 414143
- Melanie Ray, AIA, NOMA, LEED GA, FITWEL AMB; Ricardo Jesus Maga Rojas, Assoc. AIA, NOMA; Julia Weatherspoon, Assoc. AIA, NOMA, LEED BD+C; Marsha McDonald, M.Arch. Zoom link here.
- This unique AIA Nevada meeting brings together the panelists from a podcast organized by Danei Cesario, AIA titled, “Planning the Future: Principals, Practice + Purpose" that was recorded at the A’19 Conference on Architecture in Las Vegas.
- In conjunction with SoCalNOMA, the AIA|LA Architecture in Healthcare committee is proud to present a moderated panel regarding equity diversity and access to education, employment and career advancement as it relates to the healthcare design and construction industry. SoCALNOMA’s mission is to advance and support the education and careers of those who have been historically under-represented in the field of architecture and various allied design/build professions. The current events make these candid conversations critical to changing the social injustice and systemic racism.
- BFA Co-founder Neba Sere and BFA Member Umi Baden-Powell (Founding Director insider-outsider)
- The event will focus on the importance of diversifying the profession in relation to decolonisation movement within the built environment, from understanding the issues for BAME graduates finding a job/accessing practice to the barriers for BAME led businesses to gaining the opportunities to build once they’ve set up their own practice.
- Chandra Moore, Nakita Reed, Saundra Little, Kathy Dixon, Katherine Williams, Moderated by Katherine Williams, Kaytee McGowan, Mashawnta Armstrong
- Designer and social entrepreneur De Nichols will keynote Design Futures with Sick and Tired: Reflections on Design, Illness, and the Fight for Racial Justice, a reflective talk about sustaining personal and collective well-being in the fight for racial healing and justice.
- Recording of event here
- A community open forum to discuss why we need systemic change at ArtCenter College of Design. Moderated by Antiracist Classroom, BlackatACCD, ArtCenter Without, and Outcenter.
- As part of the Design Futures Student Leadership Forum, five local St. Louis leaders will be in conversation about design in action, on the ground, and in practice. They will share their personal journeys but also contextualize the importance of their work in St. Louis—post-Ferguson, COVID-19, and beyond.
- Moderated by Stefani Weeden-Smith, Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, Washington University in St. Louis Featuring: Julia N. Allen, Antoinette Carroll, Penina Acayo Laker, Melisa Sanders
- Over the last two years, the Pulitzer has been working with Monument Lab through a research residency titled Public Iconographies to explore the question “How would you map the monuments of St. Louis?” July 20–22, Monument Lab will be presenting the recent work done in St. Louis and speaking with other individuals about how this research can be applied to larger national and global dialogues.
- Leaders in the field from across the US will engage in an open, exploratory conversation about the current challenges, risks, and opportunities of using participatory design practices during the pandemic, with a strong focus on racial justice and equity.
- George Aye, Christine Gaspar, Mari Nakano, Liz Ogbu
- In this panel, Elijah Romulus, Assistant Town Planner of Bridgewater, Pedro Soto, Planning Director of Lawrence, and Lily Song, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design, will engage in discourse about the ways in which municipalities are adjusting to social conditions impacted by COVID-19.
- Regardless of your academic stage - whether you’re currently doing your BA, MA, Part 3, or whether you study Architecture, Urban Design or Interior Design etc, or whether you’re looking to begin a built environment course. We’d like to provide you with the opportunity to receive extra support from built environment Professionals within our network.
- Recording of event here
- Cut/Fill is participatory and collaborative; it is an Open Space unConference and you are invited to speak and share, pose questions or ask for input. We will have a trained open space facilitator to make sure we are properly organized.
- The Board of Directors of AIA|DC held a session last month to hear from members about one of our Board’s core values: Equity matters. Last time the Board listened, this time they'll discuss what they plan going forward and actions firms can take to create more equitable firms.
- An open dialogue with leading practitioners, co-hosted by SoCal NOMA.
- How do we engage with our shared histories and culture through monuments, statues and public art? How does that relationship sustain or perpetuate systemic racism? What needs to be done to make change? We’ve seen in recent days how a growing desire from the public to address these legacies with actionable change, particularly around confederate monuments, is met with defiance from some leadership, and action from others.
- Panelists: Paul M. Farber, L'Merchie Frazier, Joel Garcia, Mabel O. Wilson; Moderated by Arielle Gray
- What does it mean to Reclaim in a time of Spatial Shifts? Join the NOMA Conference Team answering all of your questions about Call for Seminars! Learn more about the seven themes, how to submit online, CEU Credits and more.
- Hey friends! We are looking for BIPOC student organizers who would be interested in participating in or leading groups on their campus in student initiatives aligned with Design As Protest.
- http://bit.ly/DAPstudentorganizers
- In response to conversations with many of you, #DismantlePreservation Virtual Unconference will be a one day free event that will delve into mental health, unions/salary negotiations, public service loan forgiveness, implicit bias in preservation, preserving the full story, and how to expand who is investing in old buildings. Let’s dismantle historic preservation and rebuild it for the benefit of our communities today and tomorrow.
- Joel Sanders, founder and director of JSA/MIXdesign, and Seb Choe, associate director of MIXdesign, will dddress the spatial implications of COVID-19 as an extension of MIXdesign’s commitment to the creation of safe and accessible designed environments that meet the needs of “non-compliant bodies”: people of different ages, races, genders, religions, and abilities that the discipline of architecture has traditionally overlooked.
- This virtual town hall will serve as a forum to learn more about the City of Los Angeles’ efforts t0 promote greater justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) for all Angelenos, as well as, to hear more about the specific JEDI initiatives that AIA National is advancing on behalf of the architecture profession.
- Renée Byng Yancey, Brenda Shockley; moderated by Greg Verabian
- Join us for a discussion with spatial practitioners from Accra, London, and Los Angeles as we explore community centric examples of what it means to to live together, and the lessons on sustaining and affirming communal forms of life. This roundtable will be moderated by Joal Stein, guest advisor for Deem Journal’s Issue One, Designing for Dignity. Guests: Dominique Petit-Frere, Hilary Malson, Neba Sere
- 'Design & Technical' session with Remi Connolly Taylor
- Calling all architecture students & graduates, we're hosting our 2nd BFA Student Sessions! Today at July 30th at 1.30pm GMT+1 & at 7pm we have 2 more IGTV Lives from two highly regarded black female professionals in architecture. ⠀
- 'Professionalism' session with Nana Biamah-Ofosu
- Calling all architecture students & graduates, we're hosting our 2nd BFA Student Sessions! Today at July 30th at 1.30pm GMT+1 & at 7pm we have 2 more IGTV Lives from two highly regarded black female professionals in architecture. ⠀
- A discussion among alumni and student organizers campaigning for reforms to combat racism and encourage inclusion in architecture schools. Co-sponsored by the Architectural League and The New York Review of Architecture. Moderated by Sanjive Vaidya
- Recording of event here
- SoCalNOMA has launched a new tool to support the AEC industry in improving their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. This webinar will demonstrate how this tool works, metrics for success, and resources needed for firms. We will also have a Q&A session for the audience to help get firms to sign-up and take the "Challenge"!
- Join Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson for a conversation about their new edited volume, Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). Patricia A. Morton, associate professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside, will moderate the discussion.
- Join us for the launch of our Digital XXPO and a tour of this year's camp in the Digital Foyer produced by IBI Group on Saturday 8/1 @ 10AM PDT.
- Our intent is to actively support women and minority professionals of all experience levels, that have been greatly affected by COVID, and the systemic injustices in the architectural and design communities. We want to ensure that as a collective, we increase the diversity of our profession in NYC and nationally.
- Supa Peach is going to help us kick off the virtual Hip Hop Architecture Camp! She will talk to hundreds of kids across the nation about her music career, her business, and her collaborations with The Universal Hip Hop Museum.
- Join us for a 1-hour webinar to hear more about the difference between Making Policy Public and the Public Access Design Fellowship and which program is right for you. We'll talk a bit about both programs and then open the webinar for Q&A.
- “Chats =}” are our online 2020 event series. Wednesday at 7PM, Afro Talks resumes their conversation on Black bodies in Puerto Rican architectural discourse, this time joined with architect Cruz García from WAI Architecture Think Tank. Via ZOOM and our Facebook Live, the session will be in Spanish: Rose Florián y Néstor Lebrón, de Afro Talks, retoman la discusión sobre el racismo en la arquitectura. En esta ocasión los acompaña Cruz García, co-fundador de WAI Architecture Think Tank, para expandir la conversación sobre futuros abolicionistas, interseccionales y radicalmente inclusivos. Como punto de enfoque estarán utilizando el Manifiesto Anti-Racista de WAI Think Architecture.
- Deem Journal presents our first series of forum discussions—a virtual space for us to gather in curiosity as a community and expand on conversations from our first issue, “Designing for Dignity.”
- Join Deem Journal’s editor, Isabel Flower, and Issue One contributors Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia of WAI Architecture Think Tank for a discussion about their studio practice, architecture, and social responsibility.
- Spaces and Places, born of the necessity to be acknowledged within the built environment, has embarked on its most unique and ambitious convening since its conception. Now in its fourth year, the annual grassroots (un)conference will be hosted digitally in partnership with BlackSpace and Next City. This year’s theme, titled Reclaiming, aims to position BIPOC urbanists, designers, and activists as defiant catalysts for liberation and equity.
- Who gets to call themselves an architect? Why does this matter for Black, Indigenous and People of Color? A discussion and Q+A for BIPOC students, recent graduates and designers about the trials, tribulations and empowerment that come with licensure. Please note that spots are limited to BIPOC students, recent graduates and designers. A zoom link will be sent a day or two prior to the event.
- Please join our space dedicated to astounding voices of womxn design-thinkers. We’ll unpack their experiences & perceptions related to phenomena ‘impostor syndrome’ & their identities as Black womxn in design. Panelists: Farida Abu-Bakare, Denise Shanté Brown, Natasha Hicks.
- The design of a new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers (MEL) on the grounds of the University of Virginia marks a critical moment to address the complex history of the University, slavery, and the country. It directly responds to a deep need to address an untold and uncomfortable history – one that is still very much a difficult, though necessary, national conversation on race. The goal of the Memorial is to create a physical place of remembrance and a symbolic acknowledgement of slavery and offers a place of learning and a place of healing. During this program, Alice Raucher and Mary Hughes (UVA Office of the Architect), Mabel Wilson (Studio&), and J. Meejin Yoon (Höweler + Yoon Architects) will discuss the unique process that made this project possible.
- You are invited to an incredibly unique storytelling presentation consisting of a panel of women, exclusively Black, in architecture, sharing their experience in the industry and offering a place for other people to share their stories, connect, and have discussions. Riding the Vortex is presented by the Black Women in Architecture Network - a resource for licensed Black women architects, those aspiring to be architects, and other women in design, planning and allied professions.
- Moderator: Julia Weatherspoon; Panelists: Roderick Allen, Lisa Cholmondeley, Nadia Colquiett, Albert Oliver
- How do we create an actionable road map to make the interior design field equitable and inclusive? In this conversation, we will hear from local design professionals about their experiences in the field, intersectionality, and their thoughts on how to move forward towards an equitable future.
- Please join us for the final session of Deem’s “Designing for Dignity” Forum. For our third conversation, we will be joined by Yemi Amu of Oko Farms and Naima Penniman of SOUL FIRE FARM to discuss hyper-local design strategies for building a sustainable and just food system.
- Intended for those in the beginning stages of learning Equity-Centered Community Design, this 75-minute live webinar will introduce each piece of the ECCD framework + our Redesigners for Justice movement, promoting a sustainable mindset shift rather than striving for process adoption. Opportunities for Q&A will be integrated.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students, recent graduates and emerging creatives about how Eric came to be a Creative Director and the advice that Eric has for up and coming designers. ** Please note this participatory event is intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPoC). ** Please email us at architecture.officehours@gmail.com to be placed on a waitlist.
- This summer, Project Pipeline welcomes all middle and high school students to join us online for our National Summer Camp!! Due to COVID-19 all Project Pipeline summer camps have moved to virtual space to ensure the safety of students and volunteers. Project Pipelines’ recent switch to a virtual platform, our national leaders have decided to host a virtual 8-day camp that is accessible to children from all over the United States. The national camp fee is $35 for the full 7-day experience beginning August 10-17, 2020.
- Join us for a discussion addressing racism, design justice, and equity in the architectural profession. We will build a shared language of common terms, provide historical context for current events, and discuss how they relate to the built environment. We will hear from people of color in the profession to better understand the obstacles they face as they share their lived experiences. We will share resources and successful approaches for advancing equity in the architectural profession while embracing the uncomfortable conversations and highlighting the challenges we must work to overcome.
- Panelists: Gianna Pigford, Brien Graham, Chris Daemmrich, My-Anh Nguyen. Moderators: Stephanie Lemmo, Alexander Quintanilla
- Join #DesignAsProtest for our next National Call on Wednesday, August 19th at 6PM CST. We will discuss our BIPOC organizing work of the last two months, ways you can become involved, and the exciting actions DAP has planned for the fall. Please share with your network and join us! #DesignAsProtest is a Black-led organizing effort, in solidarity with the #mvmt4blklives to marshal creative design strategies to dismantle the privilege and powers structures that use #architecture and #design as a tool of oppression. RSVP: bit.ly/augustnationalcall
- Recording of event here
- Join SoCalNOMA and AIA-LA as we present insights from architects Roland Wiley (RAW International), Michael Anderson (Anderson Barker), and recent AIA-LA Robert Kennard award winner for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity, R. Steven Lewis (ZGF). Panel Moderated by SoCalNOMA President, Lance Collins.
- Join us for our next Queries & Theories webcast on August 20, 4:00 - 4:30 pm ET. Brent Leggs, Executive Director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund with the National Trust for Historic Preservation & Nakita Reed, AIA, CPHC, LEED AP BD+C, NOMA, Senior Architect with Quinn Evans, will explore race and preservation through the following questions: What is historic preservation’s responsibility to contribute to anti-racism and social equity in America? How can cultural importance and architectural integrity be balanced to minimize the exclusion of more diverse sites? How are African American Action Fund sites expanding the types of stories brought to mainstream preservation? What are additional methods of engagement that could be practiced to expand access to the preservation field?
- Join us for the third program in Design for Everyone, a lecture series that seeks to open up conversations about design to broader, more diverse audiences. Produced by Form Function Studio in partnership with Goethe-Institut and DC Public Library. Speakers: Bryan Lee, Jr, Jerome Harris.
- In light of the Black Lives Matter Movement and ongoing efforts to achieve equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in our workplace and our industry, this program will highlight a number of extraordinary women who are leading and championing change through their meaningful and impactful organizations.
- Panelists: Bolanle Williams-Olley, Danei Cesario, Pascale Sablan. Moderator: Julia Gamolina
- Join us the week of August 17 -21 for the BIPOC Design Virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and learn about the BIPOC Design Archive Project, a collaborative effort between student researchers in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department of Architecture at MIT. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, activism, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design and more connected to the built environment will be featured in this archive project and edited throughout the week. After a short introduction held live via Zoom on August 17, stay for the kick off of our week-long virtual Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon where attendees can participate in training and events that will build community around creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC designers.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students, recent graduates and emerging creatives about how Shumi came to be an architecture curator and the advice that Shumi has for folx seeking to enter the curatorial world. ** Please note this participatory event is intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPoC). ** Please email us at architecture.officehours@gmail.com to be placed on a waitlist.
- Join us August 22nd at 4 pm in front of the 1111 building to protest this DAP and demand administration implement our student lead solution plan.
- What: social distanced protest, mask and 6 ft personal space mandatory
- When: August 22nd at 4 pm
- Where: 1111 S Arroyo Pkwy, Pasadena 91105 on the northeast corner of the intersection of Arroyo and Glenarm
- How: bring signs, banners, walking shoes, and your voice!
- Peter Robinson will present on the work of BlackSpace Urbanist Collective with a focus on their work in Brownsville, Brooklyn. After engaging the local Brownsville community in heritage conservation efforts BlackSpace produced a tool kit recounting the experience and lessons learned.
- Presented by BLCK SPCES. Zoom information in linked IG post!
- Our purpose is to celebrate Black designers. All across the US designers are submitting 5-minute talks to share more about their work and experiences as a Black designer in America. The theme is transitions. 2020 is the time. We believe elevating the work of BIPOC + LGBTQ designers is key to our collective transitioning. Each designer will be showcasing their design work in the infamous “ignite talk” or pecha kucha format.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students, recent graduates and emerging creatives about how Jonathan transitioned from architecture into setting up the multidisciplinary design studio WeShouldDoItAll. ** Please note this participatory event is intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPoC). ** Please email us at architecture.officehours@gmail.com to be placed on a waitlist.
- This is a space of discussion and learning exclusively for students and alumni organizing (or are interested in learning how to organize) at their universities and programs demanding change. To make sure this is a comfortable space, this is not a space for faculty, deans, administrators, presidents, or related positions. Unconferences are participant driven, and included in this survey is a space to list topics you'd like to hold space for + questions you'd like to ask. If you would like to participate, please fill out this form! BIPOC voices are prioritized, but everyone is welcome to join.
- Deanna Van Buren, Executive Director and Design Director of the nonprofit design studio Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, will share the initiatives of recent work in her practice as it relates to addressing racial equity and the role of the designer in unbuilding racism in the U.S.
- Encompass is the AIA|LA conference dedicated to increasing diversity in the architectural profession. As programmed by the newly launched JEDI Committee, the 4th annual Encompass Conference will serve as a joint AIA-LA & So Cal NOMA’s post Covid-19 challenge, to come together, and refocus our commitment to environmental justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. As our ongoing pandemic has highlighted the severe inequities and systemic disparities of our built environment, we see the urgent need to accelerate change and create better, more generous and equal places for everyone to belong, contribute, and succeed.
- Please join editor-in-chief Prof. Lesley Lokko, dean of The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, and guest editor Dr Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, to celebrate the launch of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture Volume Two: Noir Radical. With 34 submissions from architects, educators, activists, students, recent graduates, and artists, contributors have explored the idea of "radical" across the African continent and the African diaspora through the lens of three areas: discourse, discipline, and development.
- "Race &" is a curated series of engagements hosted by RISD Architecture that posits the following heuristic: how would architecture as a discipline reimagine its regimes of practice if it prioritized and led with race?
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students, recent graduates and emerging creatives about how Lexi balances teaching with running her architecture office Soft-Firm. ** Please note this participatory event is intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPoC). **
- The link to sign up is in the WATBD? Slack channel.
- "Race &" is a curated series of engagements hosted by RISD Architecture that posits the following heuristic: how would architecture as a discipline reimagine its regimes of practice if it prioritized and led with race?
- Since the time that Architecture and related fields became professionalized through training and certification, gaining access to these well-respected career paths has become increasingly challenging, especially for minority and underrepresented communities. What can we do today as AEC professionals to try and address inequities that pervade our careers and build a more diverse workforce? We will discuss this question and others with a panel of representatives from a range of organizations who are dedicated to engaging with diverse student groups to share resources, provide mentorship, and encourage young minds to pursue professions within AEC and beyond.
- Curb Cut Design Studio will be co-facilitating alongside community-based harm reduction specialist Michelle Spikes about how the tools of human centered design can be useful to sex workers and other community leaders seeking to create their own products, programs, and services. The workshop is at 3pm ET on September 9. Get excited for a free, 1-hour, interactive workshop in which participants will get hands-on practice of human centered design methods as well as an in-depth look at the work that SWIRL (Sex Workers in Real Life) has been doing to re-design the overnight outreach program of HIPS, a DC-based harm reduction organization. You can register at bit.ly/swfuture.
- This fall, the M.E.D. Working Group for Anti-Racism is organizing a series of roundtable conversations with spatial practitioners, activists, and scholars whose work contends with the complex relationship between race, space, and social justice.
- This year’s J. Irwin Miller Symposium at the Yale School of Architecture is titled Beyond the Visible: Space, Place, and Power in Mental Health. Throughout the month of September, the symposium will virtually draw together designers and practitioners with the goal of building collective capacity in improving access to mental health services and destigmatizing perceptions of mental health embedded in the built environment.
- ThirdSpace Action Lab (Cleveland, OH) Co-Founder + Creative Director, Mordecai Cargill will describe how the legacy and intransigence of structural racism have indelibly shaped the context in which urban design practitioners pursue efforts to positively impact the built environment. This lecture will revisit the inextricable links between Race + Place + Historical Memory as the starting point for a more critical interrogation of how we understand the work of (re)building equitable + inclusive communities.
- More Fall 2020 programming to come!
- The first in a series of discussions acknowledging and exploring the history of Columbia University’s colonialist and discriminatory practices against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. This event aims to establish a critical understanding of how the University and Columbia GSAPP came to occupy its current site in Manhattan and its relationship with the communities of Harlem, Manhattanville, and Morningside Heights, and also to create a groundwork for determining just and equitable ways that the School can move towards repair.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students, recent graduates and emerging creatives about how Asad edited and wrote across a number of architectural magazines and platforms. ** Please note this participatory event is intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPoC). **
- Join us in a hang as we rejuvenate and recenter ourselves through good music, conversation, and check-ins. Leading up to our 43rd annual convening, Recenter taking place virtually September 21-25, ACD is hosting a series of Social Situations open to all. Second in the series, Recharge, will begin with a casual convo between members of the 2019 ACD Fellowship cohort - Camila Jordan (São Paulo, Brazil), Ebony Dumas (DC/MD/VA), Melisa Sanders (St. Louis, MO), Sarah Habib (Southern CA), and Taylor Holloway (New Orleans, LA).
- We want to collaborate with youth and youth organizations to help translate the DAP demands into a youth ZiNe! Join us for our DAP Youth Call on September 17th at 3pm PT/5pm CST/6PM EST. This is a discussion + creative space for exclusively youth and youth organizations to talk about the best ways to represent the DAP Demands in a comprehensive and graphic way. Ask questions and help us co-create our plan for involving Youth in DAP.
- A symposium to present Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Edited by Mabel O. Wilson, Nancy and George Rupp Professor at GSAPP; Irene Cheng; and Charles L. Davis II with contributions by Esra Akcan, Adrienne Brown, Luis E. Carranza, Jiat-Hwee Chang, Mark Crinson, Kenny Cupers, Addison Godel, Dianne Harris, Andrew Herscher, Reinhold Martin, Brian D. McLaren, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Peter Minosh, Adedoyin Teriba, and Lisa Uddin.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students, recent graduates and emerging creatives about the process of getting a book published and Esther's advice to aspiring authors, artists, designers and editors. ** Please note this participatory event is intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPoC). **
- The State of Black Design is a two-hour virtual discussion, hosted by Texas State University's Communication Design program. This event will feature prominent Black Design Practitioners and Academics. This open conversation will be segmented into four focused panels, Industry, Pedagogy, Black Design Organizations, and Design Activism.
- “Organizing as Architectural Labor” brings together four architectural coalitions, Architecture Lobby, Another Possible Imaginary (API), Dark Matter University (DMU), and New Architecture Writers (NAW) to address organizing as an invisible form of labor in architecture. Speakers Quilian Riano (Architecture Lobby), Jonathan Crisman (API/QNA), Thomas Aquilina (NWAW), Mira Henry and A.L. Hu (DMU) will speak to contemporary practices that emergent architects are undertaking to address systemic racism in architecture. Moderated by M&A Director Jia Yi Gu, the conversation will address how architects are deploying skills of organizing, group-building, and care-taking in a long term manner, building new social and political infrastructures and modeling new systems of care for architectural practice across all sites including in cultural practice, pedagogy, and professional sectors.
- Bryan C. Lee, Jr. is the Design Principal of Colloqate, a New Orleans–based multidisciplinary architecture and design justice practice focused on expanding community access to, and building power through the design of social, civic, and cultural spaces. Their mission is to intentionally organize, advocate, and design spaces of racial, social, and cultural equity.
- “On Solitude,” a virtual lecture from Darell Wayne Fields. Click through for more information.
- Speaker: Justin Garrett Moore, Executive Director, Public Design Commission
- Moderators: Suzanne Mecs, Managing Director, AIA New York Feniosky Peña-Mora, Sc.D., FCIOB, NAC, Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, and Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University
- The City Panel will discuss urban infrastructure, the criminalization of poverty, transportation, and food inequity, unveiling the deeply embedded systems of injustice that contribute to unequal access to mental well-being across racial lines.
- Panelists: Bryan Lee, Architect; Molly Kaufman, Community Organizer/journalist; Nupur Chaudhury, Urbanist, New York State Health Foundation. Moderator: Justin Garrett Moore
- Moments of crisis demand an immediate response: planning, mobilizing, organizing, and producing. How might our way forward and the outcome be different, if instead, we respond first by reflecting on the past, thinking through what is most critical to address, and adopting new ways of working to match our situation? In times like these we need a reminder that slowing down is critical to moving forward with intention, staying true to our values, and lifting up the voices of those left out of the conversations. We must act, but only once we recenter ourselves, personally, professionally, and collectively as a field.
- Session Schedule linked here.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and recent graduates about how to create a strong architecture portfolio and application for admission to architecture schools. ** Please note this participatory event is intended for students and recent graduates who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPoC). **
- Join us for DAP's first Day of Action: Election 2020. We will be focusing on making a plan to vote, learning how to lead voter registration efforts, legislation, and candidates, and will phone bank as a team for the swing state of North Carolina.
- BFA Career Paths will be based on a series of presentations from built environment professionals about their professional and, at times, personal, journey into their current careers. Divided into two parks, the presentations will be followed by an intimate separate workshop in which attendees can choose to join depending on which path sparked their interest the most.
- With nodes across the globe, the Design Justice Network is an international community of people and organizations who are committed to rethinking design processes so that they center people who are too often marginalized by design. During this interactive session, we will unpack and interact with the 10 principles of Design Justice during a collaborative activity using web-based tools. Join the conversation in Ohio, the idea being to form a local node in Ohio in the near future!
- In this Archtober lecture, design strategist and activist De Nichols will share insights and a collective call-to-action for womxn designers to further activate our vision, voice, and power during the current moments of economic, public health, and racial crises facing the U.S.
- Welcome to our first Restorative Design Conference, a virtual gathering for people who believe that the design process can be just, empowering and healing. This event is hosted by Greater Good Studio, a design firm focused exclusively on serving the social sector. We’ve assembled seven brilliant speakers to help us explore design’s relationship to complex topics such as trauma, white supremacy and the built environment.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A with/for BIPOC students and recent graduates in our second session about how to create a strong architecture portfolio and application for admission to architecture schools. ** Please note this participatory event is intended for students and recent graduates who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPoC). **
- Join us as we give an overview of Dark Matter University and outline a few different ways you can get involved depending on your interest and availability. We will be talking about the Dark Matter University organization, Network Roster, Working Groups and ways to be involved and engaged in the Fall 2020 semester.
- What is the Architecture of Reparations? Members of the Black Reconstruction Collective include Emanuel Admassu ‘12 MSAAD, ‘13 AAR; Germane Barnes; Sekou Cooke; J. Yolande Daniels ‘90 MArch; Felecia Davis; Mario Gooden ‘90 MArch, Associate Professor of Professional Practice at GSAPP; Walter Hood; Olalekan Jeyifous; V. Mitch McEwen ‘06 MArch; and Amanda Williams. Response by Charlette Caldwell, Caitlyn Campbell, Brian Turner, and Ife Vanable, The Black Student Alliance (BSA+GSAPP).
- Tom Dyckhoff, Owen Hatherley, Leopold Lambert, Lesley Lokko & Rowan Moore
- Architectural history and critique have until fairly recently relied on a Eurocentric approach and narrative. Palladio [or insert any other western white male architect] is a symbol of high culture in architecture; an architecture with a capital A. When we critique architecture and design, it is largely an examination of its formal qualities and aesthetic value. But what stories are left untold? Join Shawn Adams, Nana Biamah-Ofosu and the panel of invited guests as we discuss the relationship between architectural journalism and power.
- On October 8 and 9 (12-3pm EST), Monument Lab Town Hall explores new models and practices for how we might shape the past in ways that continue to confront legacies of racist, sexist, and colonial systems of knowledge and to strengthen democracy through public spaces. Such efforts include community organization and civic engagement tactics that include multiple publics in these monumental matters. The Town Hall features a series of four keynote conversations and video presentations from artists/activists working across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Germany. Across two days of conversations, curators, writers, artists, and activists will think together about memory work across borders, the relationship between art and activism. Monument Lab Town Hall will explore critical and creative practices we might need towards monumental justice, education, and care.
- Can Design Move Movements? Join us for a special event during Design Philadelphia on October 9th at 1-2 PM ET. Register at link in bio. Caroline and Royce from Dissent By Design will moderate an interactive panel discussion with some of today’s dissenters from art and design: Robin Bell, Joe Boruchow, Michele Cooper, and Diana Weymar.
- Join us this for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and emerging creatives about how Justin became an urban designer and his advice for those interested in entering the field. Spots are limited. To be placed on a waitlist, please email us at architecture.officehours@gmail.com. ** Please note this participatory event is intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPoC). **
- A discussion following 'NEW GROUNDS FOR DESIGN EDUCATION' : Beyond making elite institutions more accessible, how do we make already accessible institutions stronger? Join LISA C. HENRY, LESLEY LOKKO, SHAWN RICKENBACKER, SANJIVE VAIDYA, CLAIRE WEISZ & DR. SHARON E. SUTTON for a series of presentations followed by a moderated discussion, with questions from the audience.
- Please join US Architects Declare on Thursday, October 15, for a Town Hall meeting of the US branch of this global movement to galvanize action and drive systemic change on climate change, social justice, and biodiversity. At the Town Hall, presentations and open discussion will address: the goals of the movement opportunities for firms, individuals, and architecture schools to become involved strategies for change, and what resources and structures for collective action architects around the country want to help them make an impact.
- Join us this for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students, designers and architects about how Sean set up his architecture offices and his tips for working on collaborative projects. Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPoC).
- Together, October 14 – 18, we will explore ways in which we can break down barriers to creating meaningful projects, share ways to remix the role of the designer, and unpack new approaches to the design processes of our built environment. Each one of us will find our ikusasa, Yoruba for future or progress, to forge our path towards progression.
- Join over 200 Black women in architecture women for a virtual gathering to celebrate our accomplishments and network with each other.
- The conference on 21st October 2020 will be considering the question of future development models through 3 lenses of justice – social, environmental and economic – in an effort to outline what radical practice looks like and why we need this now more than ever before. Throughout this studio we will hear from guests including REAL Sustainability, Black Female Architects, DisCo.coop, Centric Lab, Digital Ministry of Taiwan, Snowcone & Haystack, alongside Bianca Wylie and Katharina Pistor.
- Drawing on the work of Detroit artists Scott Hocking and Carlos Diaz, amongst others, in "Negation and Disavowal in Spatial Politics," Michael Stone-Richards explores the way in which erasure and camouflage in public space and monuments attest to the work or modes of political and cultural unconscious in racial politics and what he calls the politics of attention - the question of Why now? posed by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
- Design Justice through Landscape Architecture with Professor Kofi Boone and Bryan Lee Jr. // Wednesday 10/21, 6:30-8:00 PM PT // Live stream at https://vimeo.com/454799743
- This talk analyzes the racial politics that subtended the Museum of Modern Art's 1932 International Style exhibition, which polemically defined modern architecture as a progressive social project of the EuroAmerican avant-garde. The artificial polarities that were established between so-called "primitive" and "modern" world cultures has subsequently trapped the cultural productions of people of color in a never ending loop of outright dismissal and cultural appropriation. Revising this definition to accommodate the modern subjectivities that people of color have created in the interwar and postwar periods breaks this loop and opens new grounds for a revisionist history of architectural modernity.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPoC students, designers, and architects about how Quilian approaches democratic design and his tips for working collaboratively with publics. Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC).
- Shade is a crucial yet criminalized resource in Los Angeles. City sidewalks, parks, bus stops, freeway underpasses, and the LA River are all sites in which the presence of shade is problematized and often explicitly made illegal. Motivations for criminalizing shade range from bureaucratic mismanagement to surveillance to issues of profit and beyond. More often than not, however, the lack of shade is a situational consequence with serious repercussions. Facing rising temperatures and impending heat waves, LA residents don't have many options for escaping the deadly heat. The lack of shade affects so many of us — walkers, bikers, and runners; children playing in parks; city transit takers; residents who are housed and those experiencing homelessness — and yet by no means does the illegalization of shade affect us all equally. Join us for six stories about shade and its criminalization in Los Angeles.
- Lesley Lokko, an architect, academic and author, is the next lecturer in the Fay Jones School's fall 2020 lecture series, which focuses on issues of equity and justice in the built environment. Lokko will give her "Look Back in Anger" lecture at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26 via Zoom. In her lecture, she will examine the capacity of institutions, like schools, to make sense of what has happened this past year and prepare us for what may come next.
- USC student orgs, NOMAS, SAWA, and AIAS, will host an "Equity in Architecture" panel. The panelists amplify marginalized perspectives in architecture such as Women, BIPOC, and Disabled folks through conversation in these areas by professionals who are doing work and speaking out to combat inequity in the built environment.
- In efforts to establish safe spaces, transparency, and effective communication, this is an open discussion between students, faculty and alumni about diversifying the School of Architecture. This is also an opportunity to receive feedback and hear more from students for future roundtable discussions. This months topic is Space and Race: Cultural Design Practices, Digital Heritage, & Community Development with guest speaker Professor Vernelle Noel.
- Founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Bryan Stevenson is the featured speaker for the second event in Visualizing Abolition, joining Gina Dent for a conversation about art, culture, and activism.
- Full Visualizing Abolition series here
- As a collective effort of raising the voices of Black Indigenous People of Color, SoCal NOMA student chapters have prepared a series of lectures across the 7 participating schools of architecture that highlights and celebrates the work and achievements of designers of color. Join Woodbury NOMAS and Woodbury School of Architecture for a virtual Symposium on Spaces of Resistance at 6PM next Tuesday. The Symposium will explore spaces that challenge the status quo by educating, uplifting, and creating visual identities for the historically repressed. Speakers include Demar Matthews, Menna Agha, Teddy Cruz, and Khan Muhammad, with moderator Sean Joyner. Register using the link! We invite respected guests and NOMAS members across SoCal to these talks. Together we hope to inspire and empower, to continue to be voices of the future of architecture.
- Everett L. Fly believes that African American legacies are embedded in the physical and cultural substance of many of America’s built and vernacular places. Formal education in architecture introduced him to the positive potential of planning and design in respecting and expressing the cultures of people wherever they live, work and play. He believes that American planning and design should be more deliberate in reflecting and respecting a broader cultural diversity, including Black and Indigenous people.
- Limited exposure to the professions of architecture and planning and their networks, as well as limited access to resources, creates an uneven playing field for students in design schools. This proverbial ‘shifting of the goalposts’ creates difficulty in the transition between education and practice, creating a harsh reality for BIPOC students upon graduation in a field dominated by white spaces and white faces. Are architecture and planning education structured in a way that sets up people of color, to fail as they join the profession? If so, what elements are the most hindering for the progress of people of color?
- Keynote speaker: Quardean Lewis-Allen (BS Arch '09)
- Panelists: Mira Henry, Garnette Cadogan, Daphne Lundi
- Moderator: Charles Davis II (MArch '02), assistant professor of architectural history and criticism, University at Buffalo
- Student participants: Zachary Korosh (MUP '22, BAED '20), Rosanna Valencia (BS Arch '21), Petreen Thomas (BS Arch '21)
- JEDI Design Network & Open Mic Project will hold monthly meet-ups for designers to attend in support of storytelling and to build a safe network of sharing. Through these means, we hope to build coalition, empathy and unity in working towards a more equitable design field.
- Join architecture students and alumni across so-called Canada for a cross-institutional dialogue about ongoing movements for equity and justice in design education. We are honoured to have special guests, Camille Mitchell and Tammy Gaber, bring forward their own experiences with architectural education throughout their careers.
- Launch and discussion of the forthcoming book Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. Edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt with contributions by Adrienne Brown, Stephen Dillon, Jarrett M. Drake, Sable Elyse Smith, James Graham, Leslie Lodwick, Dylan Rodríguez, Anne Spice, Brett Story, Jasmine Syedullah, Mabel O. Wilson, and Wendy L. Wright.
- The DEI Challenge is SoCal NOMA’s CALL TO ACTION for the Architecture Education Community to increase diversity in architecture education and build a more inclusive environment that supports racial justice, social responsibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and transforms the culture, curriculum and student body in a way that is holistic and school-wide.
- Across much of the U.S., particularly outside of the booming metropolises of the “knowledge economy,” land is frequently a community’s most valuable asset. Historically, this has been thought of in terms of extraction: minerals to take; oil to pump; water to harness; soil to exploit. As economic forces reduce the viability of such models, and consciousness grows around the ecological fragility of our environments, how can communities reimagine land as a resource?
- Office Hours is proud to present Responding to Discriminatory Incidents — a diversity training workshop intended for BIPoC creative practitioners — led by Lee Mun Wah, a master facilitator, educator, author, and filmmaker known for his groundbreaking documentary The Color of Fear.
- We encourage architecture and design offices across the country to prioritize anti-bias and anti-racist reforms, and sponsor 2-3 of their BIPoC employees to attend this session during regular office hours. We encourage educators to allow BIPoC students to attend during class hours without penalty. Please note: This event is strictly intended for students, educators, and practitioners who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPoC).
- Michelle Joan Wilkinson is a curator at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, D.C., where she is expanding the museum’s collections in architecture and design. Wilkinson co-curated two inaugural museum exhibitions: “A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture” and “A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond.” In 2018, she served as lead organizer for the museum’s three-day symposium, “Shifting the Landscape: Black Architects and Planners, 1968 to Now.”
- This free course, presented by MODA, is intended for designers, non-designers, activists, organizers, and individuals interested in more equitable approaches to architecture and urbanism. The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the Design Justice movement, present case studies in action, and share further insights, tools, and resources. Participants will learn to define, ideate, and respond to injustices within their own communities. Classes will be informative, collaborative, and interactive. Ideas, tips, and suggestions from experts will be presented to encourage participants to take action beyond the course.
- An election-eve conversation with founding members of Dark Matter University, a democratic network of architects, designers, and scholars founded to work inside and outside of existing systems to challenge, inform, and reshape our present world toward a better future. Streaming live on Zoom.
- The 3rd Design Justice lecture in the Florida A&M and Howard Univ series is Wed, Nov 4 @ 4:00PM EST. A discussion of "Anti-Racist Design Praxis" will be led by Justin Garrett Moore, Jelisa Blumberg, Curry Hackett, and Lexi Tsien. Please register in advance at tinyurl.com/famusaet
- Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram is an environmental planner and landscape ecologist who these days is often funded as an environmental artist. His heritage is primarily Métis, a large indigenous demographic across the middle latitudes of Canada, and he grew up in a W̱SÁNEĆ (Salish) community near Victoria, British Columbia. Along with the late Latina activist Yolanda Retter and Anne-Marie Bouthillette, Brent compiled and edited the first survey of LGBT public spaces and design issues, the 1997, Queers in Space: Communities | Public Places | Sites of Resistance.
- Please join us for the Center for Architecture’s 16th-annual Deans’ Roundtable. Representatives from over a dozen northeastern schools of architecture will discuss current directions in architectural education.
- Join us this Saturday at 1pm EST / 10am PST for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students, designers and architects about how Tei set up her architecture office and her tips for structuring research and practice. Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPoC).
- In this two-part guided module, Denise Shanté Brown will offer an introduction to design justice exploring the questions: How can design be a tool for dreaming and building more just, liberating futures? How can we both practice and embody the justice we want to see?
- Participants must be able to attend both sessions scheduled for Monday, November 9 and Thursday, November 12 at 12:30PM EST. Spaces are limited and priority will be given to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) participants.
- Lecture by Majora Carter. Response by Mario Gooden, Associate Professor of Architecture at GSAPP
- Maurice Cox, a nationally respected community designer and leader of the public interest design movement, is the Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development for the city of Chicago. Prior to moving to Illinois, he was director of planning and development for the City of Detroit, where he created a resident-centered planning and development department and led urban planning and revitalization strategies that championed the equitable redevelopment of neighborhoods that fostered population growth and new mixed-use, mixed-income investment. Earlier in his career, he was director of Tulane City Center and associate dean for Community Engagement at the Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans.
- Featuring HECTOR co-founder Damon Rich LF '07 and Designing Justice + Designing Spaces co-founder Deanna Van Buren LF '13, and moderated by Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron LF ’12, this conversation—Loeb50: Design and Activism Now—explores how practitioners in the built environment can pursue activism in and through their work, while also balancing the realities of being part of a service profession. This discussion will also touch upon issues of memory, representation, and communication in social and political action.
- The immediate and improvised nature of the COVID shutdown in the spring of 2020 did not only bring to light systemic justice problems, but created new ones too. One such is the accelerated digitization of the judicial system. This session of the New Spaces of Justice workshop addresses real-time challenges faced by the courts and its users and rethink analog and virtual court infrastructures, buildings, symbols and artifacts through a human-centered lens.
- The role of posters as protest has acquired renewed urgency in the midst of a global pandemic and continuous protests movements surrounding social justice initiatives across myriad landscapes. Activism-based visual arts have been paramount to coalition building and personal expression. As artists of color, Monyee Chau and Lo Harris respond to conventional depictions of Asian-American and African-American communities respectively, using their artwork to sublimate stereotypes and empower underrepresented voices. This event brings together two Harvard GSD communities, APIA and AASU, with the two artists in conversation about how their works champion a more-equitable and just world.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC high school students and recent high school grads about how Tei and Jonathan became designers, and their decision to pursue architecture and design as career paths. Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for high school students and recent high school grads who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPoC).
- Walter Hood is the Creative Director and Founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. Hood Design Studio is a cultural practice, working across art, fabrication, design, landscape, research and urbanism. He is also the David K. Woo Chair and Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He lectures on professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally.
- Join us this Thursday for a Design Justice training for High School Educators and Youth Program Facilitators! Register at http://bit.ly/NOVyouthteachin
- Thirty years after the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, much of the built environment remains inaccessible to disabled people. Accordingly, the vast majority of research and writing on accessibility seeks to convince the unconvinced of the value of inclusion. This field, which I term “Access Studies,” would benefit from greater engagement with the concepts, practices, and political commitments of critical disability studies. In this talk, I will discuss the emerging field of “Critical Access Studies,” which engages with the methodologies, epistemologies, and political commitments of accessibility from the perspectives of Disability Justice and disability culture. Using historical and contemporary examples, I will illustrate the difference that critical perspectives on disability—including intersectional perspectives—can make for architects seeking to understand design with, by, and for disabled people.
- This event will bring together Dark Matter University with Taubman College’s Design Justice Actions student group to discuss racial justice in the architecture discipline. Dark Matter’s Lisa Henry Benham and Jelisa Blumberg will provide deeper insights into the organization’s work and agenda, and explore the alignment with the racial justice needs and initiatives that DJA is championing here at Taubman College.
- A conversation on spaces for housing action for racial and climate justice -and feminism- with guest Shana Griffen, Associate Director of Antenna and founder of PUNCTUATE; and co-founder of Jane Place and facilitated by Johane Clermont, MArch ‘22 and Graduate Research Assistant Fall '20 at the GSAPP Housing Lab
- Lesley Lokko is trained as an architect at the Bartlett School of Architecture and holds a Ph.D. in architecture from the same institution. She is currently Dean of Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, and was the founder and former director of the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. From January 2021, she will step down as Dean of Spitzer and begin building the African Futures Institute, an independent postgraduate school of architecture in Accra, Ghana.
- In a conversation facilitated by Delphine Sims and Haley Moyse Fenning, California-based artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle will discuss the idolisation of colonial monuments before diving into a hands-on collage workshop. Participants will be encouraged to cut, paste, draw, paint and juxtapose imagery of colonial statuary, reimagining how this history can be represented – and reclaimed.
- Justin Garrett Moore, AICP, LEED AP; Jennifer Low; Kiki Cooper, Assoc. ASLA; Maria Villalobos
- In this session, designers with Dark Matter University will share their experiences and efforts to explore ideas and actions for how design and landscape architecture institutions and practices can better acknowledge and address racism in the profession, education, and practice.
- WAI Architecture Think Tank is a planetary studio practicing by questioning the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism. Founded in Brussels during the financial crisis of 2008 by Puerto Rican architect, artist, curator, educator, author and theorist Cruz Garcia and French architect, artist, curator, educator, author and poet Nathalie Frankowski. WAI is one of their several platforms of public engagement that include Beijing-based anti-profit art space Intelligentsia Gallery, and the free and alternative education platform and trade-school Loudreaders. Based on the emancipating and persecuted alternative practice of education performed by lectores like Luisa Capetillo in the tobacco factories in the Caribbean, Loudreaders is an open pedagogical platform and free trade school that engages with architectural education as a form of mutual aid and critical solidarity in the age of Covid-19.
- This free course, presented by MODA, is intended for designers, non-designers, activists, organizers, and individuals interested in more equitable approaches to architecture and urbanism. The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the Design Justice movement, present case studies in action, and share further insights, tools, and resources. Participants will learn to define, ideate, and respond to injustices within their own communities. Classes will be informative, collaborative, and interactive. Ideas, tips, and suggestions from experts will be presented to encourage participants to take action beyond the course.
- The third event in the Visualizing Abolition series brings together visual and cultural theorists Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray and Nicholas Mirzoeff to consider the roles of visual culture in normalizing mass incarceration and the racist brutalities of policing within the social landscape and political vision of America. Questions of visuality and formations moves beyond critiques of film, television, advertisements, and other media to ask how dominant visions of the world—and the visual regimes that regulate what people see and what remains hidden from view—are materialized in the prison industrial complex.
- Full Visualizing Abolition series here
- Ten Responses to One Question: What does it mean to imagine Black Reconstruction today?
- The Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) provides funding, design, and intellectual support to the ongoing and incomplete project of emancipation for the African Diaspora. The BRC is committed to multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary work dedicated to dismantling systemic white supremacy and hegemonic whiteness within art, design, and academia. Founded by a group of Black architects, artists, designers, and scholars, the BRC aims to amplify knowledge production and spatial practices by individuals and organizations that further the reconstruction project.
- Please join the NOMA Central Texas Interest Group in their inaugural Empower Speaker Series event featuring Donna Carter, FAIA. Industry partners include AIA Austin, AIA San Antonio, ACE Mentorship, UT Austin, and UT San Antonio.
- Deanna Van Buren will give a talk on the work of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces.
- Join this conversation to hear from a panel of diverse BIPOC* voices who work towards improving the state of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (acronym ‘JEDI’) in the AEC industry, not just in academia and professional practice but also in how design bias and underrepresentation reinforce endemic design inequities. Panelists include Michael Ford, founder of Hip Hop Architecture Camps, Melissa R. Daniel, host of Architecture is Political podcast, and Shiva Mendez, Principal at HOK. (*BIPOC is an acronym for black, indigenous, and people of color).
- Join us Thursday, November 19, when we’ll host renowned Landscape Architect Walter Hood for the 26th Pietro Belluschi Lecture. Dayna Cunningham, Executive Director of MIT CoLab and SA+P students Xio Alvarez MArch, MCP candidate and Lizzie Yarina DUSP PhD candidate will join for an essential discussion on hybrid landscapes and community co-design.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students, designers and architects about Alyse's dynamic career in the fields of art, industrial design and publishing, and her advice to BIPOC creatives interested in directorial and research-based roles in design. Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC).**
- In the U.S., and around the world, vacant and abandoned urban land and structures are more ubiquitous than most people realize. In this lecture, Professor Foster will argue why we should think about this urban infrastructure as a “commons” capable of meeting the social and economic needs of the most vulnerable urban populations. Thinking of the city as a commons recognizes as legitimate, even innovative, the collective action of urban actors who utilize land and other infrastructure to construct informal settlements, community gardens and urban farms, mesh wireless networks, and new limited equity housing and commercial spaces that are then collaboratively stewarded by an identified community or group of people. Thinking of the city as a commons requires us to move beyond the public/private and market/state binaries when thinking about urban development and revitalization. It is in the space between public and private, market and state, where we can find a set of rich conceptual and practical solutions to enduring racial and economic inequities that continue to plague many communities around the world, particularly those on the margins—social, economic, and geographic—of so many cities.
- Historically, zoning and building codes have contributed to the concentration of low-income people of color into public housing developments that are physically and financially segregated from the public life of their surrounding neighborhoods. That the legacies of racism continue to structure and inform the built environment of American cities is a gaping wound that can only be healed through urban alchemy—the reparation or reconstruction of the intentional, codified ways in which the urban landscape has been used to promote the subjugation of people based on their race.
- The Black School and Emory Douglas will be in conversation, hosted by @centerforbookarts and @blacklunchtable, about collectivity, co-authorship, self-publishing as a radical gesture, and resource, knowledge, and access equity as goals for liberation and mutual uplift.
- Join us for our third and final virtual conversation for the semester, [Contesting] DESIGN, as part of the Fall 2020 SA+P series, which will include presentations and discussion by Keller Easterling and Bryan C. Lee, Jr.
- Architecture is a condensation and an overlaying of times, stories, field notes, excerpts, archaeologies and forensic samplings. Practice, research and pedagogy presents us with platforms to think through and respond to the inextricable connections between history, forces of labour, race and class struggles, capitalism, toxicity and climate change. Diverse origins and forms of practice that bring to light our deep pasts and deep futures are, for my. practice, not novel or radical - they are simply implicit and imperative.
- The lecture will be followed by a public live discussion including Lesley Lokko as respondent.
- The Chair’s office at Spitzer is pleased to invite all students, faculty, and staff to the Architecture Department Lunchtime Lecture featuring professors Samantha Josaphat and Jerome Haferd. This event is co-sponsored by the CCNY Student Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects.
- Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski (WAI Think Tank) are currently Assistant Professors at Virginia Tech. Their recently published Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education (https://waithinktank.com/Anti-Racist-Education-Manual) posits a powerful and timely rethinking of how contemporary architectural education is observed to embody issues of social injustice and institutional racism. Architectural history and theory is critiqued through the deployment of subverted seminal modern graphic motifs to reframe commonly accepted premises. The GSA hopes to be engaging closely with WAI Think Tank next year and this lecture will serve to introduce and welcome this important new voice to the GSA.
- This free course, presented by MODA, is intended for designers, non-designers, activists, organizers, and individuals interested in more equitable approaches to architecture and urbanism. The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the Design Justice movement, present case studies in action, and share further insights, tools, and resources. Participants will learn to define, ideate, and respond to injustices within their own communities. Classes will be informative, collaborative, and interactive. Ideas, tips, and suggestions from experts will be presented to encourage participants to take action beyond the course.
- Join us for an interactive workshop to learn about effective co-creation tools and methods for meaningful community engagement. Facilitated by The Urban Studio’s creative engagement experts Daví de la Cruz, Jenn Low and special guests to be announced soon! These tools and methods will cover a few central themes when designing for engagement: power, co-learning, storytelling, and play.
- Panelists: Laura Groves, Alberto Sanchez-Sanchez, Tonia Sing Chi
- In an effort to address equity and diversity in our community and profession, PA is launching a new lecture series: “Pushing Perspectives.” This (currently) virtual series seeks to provide thoughtful conversations on the state of the preservation profession and explore methods that can be incorporated into our practice to address inclusivity and equity. The inaugural event will be a panel discussion titled “Pushing Perspectives: Can We Make Preservation Relevant in Advancing Social Justice?”. Three former Fitch Thesis Grant Prize winners will present their theses, all of which address the lecture’s theme, and a moderated panel discussion will follow.
- “What is the architecture of Black futures?”
- The Black Reconstruction Collective is Emanuel Admassu, Germane Barnes, Sekou Cooke, J. Yolande Daniels, Felecia Davis, Mario Gooden, Walter Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, V. Mitch McEwen, and Amanda Williams
- NUESTRO NORTE ES EL SUR es un grupo de historiadores de la arquitectura Latinoamericana constituido a partir de un taller realizado en Quito en 2018 con actividad continua desde entonces. El grupo busca espacios para conversar sobre las presencias y ausencias de América Latina en la enseñanza global de la historia de la arquitectura.
- Join us in a conversation with Kona Gray, FASLA, PLA, Principal of EDSA and Torey Carter-Conneen the new CEO of the American Society of Landscape Architects, to reimagine the future of landscape architecture. US co-founders Kendra Hyson and Maisie Hughes will co-host this conversation.
- A workshop organized by Urban Humanities Working Group: Peter Christensen, Lawrence Chua, Samia Henni and Lisa Trivedi. With Swati Chattopadhyay, Charles Davis II, Ana María León, Lesley Lokko, Victoria M. Young, and Mabel O. Wilson. Supported by Central New York Humanities Corridor.
- Faculty, staff, and students from iD+Pi & the Indigenous Landscape Design Studio @uofnm rethink how we design and collaborate with indigenous communities at "Decentering the Euro-centric Design Process" webinar. Register at https://bit.ly/36s1wUW
- Join us for Data for Black Lives III December 11-13, 2020. To be amongst the first to know when tickets go on sale sign up at bit.ly/join_d4bl.
- ***This is a free, virtual healing session open to Black folks only.***
- Join us in a free virtual restorative space for Black people to recover from this year and learn healing practices as we divest from oppressive systems. This healing session will be led by Emanuel H. Brown an Embodied Freedom Practitioner (Founder and Executive Director of Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom). This session is focused on the experiences of Black creatives within the context of academia, workplace, and industry.
- The process of purchasing and rehabbing property while ensuring it is affordable for currrent and future residents is complex. This workshop will break down the process and help you think systematically as we build and envision collective housing spaces for ourselves and our communities.
- Workshop presenters include James Yelen from Enterprise Community Partners (https://www.enterprisecommunity.org) and Sarah Scruggs from the Northern California Land Trust (www.nclt.org).
- “Decolonizing Design Research” is a workshop series that explores how research can create spaces and places that reflect values of anti-racism and justice. The dominance of western design aesthetics and research methods is largely invisible to those who were trained in design. As a result, these practices can reinforce existing power structures that are harmful to many. This workshop series will provide a space to understand how to mitigate bias in design research methods and learn about less familiar methods used in other disciplines and contexts.
- Panelists: Dr. Deshonay Dozier, Assistant Professor of Human Geography, Cal State Long Beach; Joseph Kunkel, Design Director, Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab, MASS Santa Fe, NM; Shawhin Roudbari, Assistant Professor, Environmental Design, University of Colorado Boulder. Moderator: Gabriel Halili, Designer and Urban Planner
- Explore the intersection of mapping and social justice with Andrew Sargeant and Jelani Byrd as they demonstrate how to democratize data using open-source assets and live, 3D mapping with QGIS. More details to come!
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- Lecture Title: Collective Difference with Dark Matter University
- New York-based designer and urbanist Justin Garrett Moore will share his transdisciplinary work navigating difference and design in dialogue with Dark Matter University affiliates and Carleton University visiting faculty Curry Hackett and Jennifer Low. The evening will prompt both engagement and empowerment by exploring how our collective and cooperative actions as designers can transform or reimagine our spaces, places and practices.
- This panel will offer insights into the role race plays in senior housing in NYC (and beyond). Is not-for-profit or qualified-income senior housing more (or less) racially integrated than other housing in a given neighborhood or area? Are there any architectural design factors in senior housing where unconscious racial bias might come into play? What have architects for senior housing learned from prospective tenants about their unique needs? Is there a “sweet spot” for the number of residents required to create a rich, diverse community in senior housing?
- Beverly Lorraine* Greene ('45 M.Arch, 1915-57) was the first African American women architect licensed to practice in the United States; Norma Merrick Sklarek ( '50 B.Arch, 1926-2012) was the first African American woman to be made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Both graduates of Columbia’s University’s architecture program, they went on to have distinguished careers working in prominent architectural firms— in the case of Sklarek, she co-founded the largest women-owned firm at the time. This panel will explore Greene and Sklarek’s significant contributions to the architecture profession, made at a time when the profession was almost exclusively white and male.
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- The Architectural Initiative for Diversity (AID) presents The Anti-Racist School of Architecture Virtual Symposium 2021. The symposium has grown out of conversations in 2020 by governments, companies, and individuals discussing racial justice – also an issue faced by schools of architecture around the country and world. Many schools wrote open letters to their administrations in a quest to tackle these concerns head on. These open letters were the springboard to discuss the intersection of architecture, race, and education in a free virtual symposium, open to the public.
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- This event, the second event in the black creative series will look at planning, design and built environment sectors can help make life better for all. Furthermore, we will explore how these structural systems and biases are negatively impacting society and contributing to inequality. Sadly, systemic racism and our own biases have shaped the world we see today.
- The student-organized event will be a panel discussion moderated by Taubman College’s Harley Etienne. The panel will be made up of four urban planners, architects, designers, and activists working to achieve economic and racial justice: Craig Wilkins, Lesley Lokko, De Nichols, and Ujijji Davis.
- Streamed live here
- From 1865-1930, formerly enslaved Texans founded 557+ freedom colonies, which are now absent from official maps, have lost population, and their building conditions have declined since the Great Migration. Dr. Andrea Roberts will discuss the contemporary status of these Black communities, diasporic identity, co-curation activities, and research findings associated with The Texas Freedom Colonies Atlas. The Texas Freedom Colonies Project Atlas is a statewide crowdsourcing project which collects stories and memories of disappearing historic black spaces whose populations have been displaced over time through cultural erasure, resource extraction, and natural disasters.
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- As part of USFCAM’s exhibition "Marking Monuments," contemporary artists and leading practitioners in the public art field will discuss their artistic practice and creative strategies to challenge, erase and transform the dominant histories and symbols to offer reimagined representations for equity in the public realm. Panelists are Ariel René Jackson, Karyn Olivier, Joiri Minaya, John Sims, and Patricia Eunji Kim of Monument Lab; moderated by Sarah Howard, USF Curator of Public Art and Social Practice.
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- Panelists: Tsione Wolde-Michael, Germane Barnes, Amber Wiley, t Sara Zewde
- This panel will begin a discussion on building an anti-racist discourse into architectural practice and architectural history. The intent is not simply to highlight or reify the concept of race or racism in architectural practice and history but to begin to build a language to dismantle and advance beyond these destructive forces. The ambition is to create a platform for exchanges and to link with other arenas that are already undertaking this anti-racist work and suggest how students can apply this practice in their futures.
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- In September 2020, AIA New York’s Board of Directors adopted a position statement to shift the architecture profession’s involvement in the design of detention facilities under the current criminal justice system. Among the action items outlined in the statement was the relaunch of the AIANY Architecture for Justice Committee, “to increase focus on large-scale justice issues.” We invite all those interested to join the dialogue to help us define what issues our newly envisioned Architecture for Justice Committee should prioritize. The event will include a kick-off presentation and audience breakout groups to collect member vision and aspiration for how they and the organization can engage issues going forward.
- Lesley Lokko, recipient of the 2020 RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education, is joined by Nicky Watson, Zoë Berman, Gugu Mthembu & Thandi Loewenson in a discussion chaired by Matthew Barac. Lokko founded and led the Graduate School of Architecture (GSA) at the University of Johannesburg, and has taught at institutions including Iowa State University, University of Illinois, Kingston University, University of Westminster and the University of North London. From January 2021, she begins building the African Futures Institute, an independent postgraduate school of architecture in Accra, Ghana.
- This virtual research symposium highlights historic preservation research and activism centered on advancing justice and equity. Invited speakers will present on their respective work as scholars, practitioners, and activists to address systematic disparities in historic preservation practice and education that have impacted issues of diversity and inclusion while advancing the field to re-center issues of justice and equity.
- Day 1: What is Monumentality?
- Panelists: Paul Ramírez Jonas Justin Garrett Moore, AICP, NOMA Zena Howard, FAIA
- Our first panel, “What is Monumentality?,” examines monumentality itself through the lens of art, architecture, and public space. What does it mean to memorialize an event? A person? A movement? What is the relationship between the monument, the narrative it projects, and its audience? Who gets to tell the story? How are monuments wielded by a dominant culture to control and/or subjugate; and conversely, how are these forms leveraged to reclaim lost cultural history?
- Facilitators My-Anh Nguyen and Chris Daemmrich will provide a space for design students and professionals engaged in organizing or other transformational actions to move design discipline towards racial justice to workshop their actions. We welcome those who have not yet become active to learn how they can become involved. As two of the co-organizers of Emergent Grounds in Design Education, My-Anh and Chris will share their experiences of emergent strategy, or decentralized organizing, as a queer, feminist intervention challenging masculinist, hierarchical norms of organizing and professional practice.
- Melvin L. Mitchell has been a practicing architect in Washington, DC for 45 years. He is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects, a past president of the DC Board of Architecture, and former director of the School of Architecture & Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore. He was a professor at the University of the District of Columbia and Howard University and James E. Silcott Professor of Architecture at Howard University (2016–2018). His architecture degrees are from Howard University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
- Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the U.S. and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems – it corrupts our criminal justice system, exacerbates economic inequality, and produces large academic gaps between white and African American schoolchildren. We’ve taken no serious steps to desegregate neighborhoods, however, because we are hobbled by a national myth that residential segregation is de facto—the result of private discrimination or personal choices that do not violate constitutional rights. The Color of Law demonstrates, however, that residential segregation was created by racially explicit and unconstitutional government policy in the mid-twentieth century that openly subsidized whites-only suburbanization in which African Americans were prohibited from participating. Only after learning the history of this policy can we be prepared to undertake the national conversation necessary to remedy our unconstitutional racial landscape.
- The Center for Public Art and Space, in association with Monument Lab, welcomes you to join a lecture by Sue Mobley, which will explore five project approaches for centering subaltern histories through design and urban planning.
- Alondra Cano is the city council member from the district in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered in March 2020. She was a leading proponent of abolishing the Minneapolis Police Department. During this session she will share what she has learned from the tumultuous events of 2020, and what we can take away about planning and design of multicultural and inclusive American cities.
- The challenges facing planning and design at this moment are immense: Climate change, dismantling racism, decolonizing our institutions and ways of living, ending species annihilation. The urgency to act quickly and decisively is palpable. At the same time, the problems are overwhelming and the pathways to change slow. This presentation will explore and reflect on where optimism comes from in a troubled time using two critical moments for planning. I will first discuss grassroots efforts to place, reinterpret or remove monuments in public space as symbolic and material social justice initiatives, and then show everyday neighborhood adaptation in response to climate change in the Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana as visions for multiple futures. I will use these situations to explore how grassroots action can lead to hope and alternative ways of seeing possible futures as well as to reflect on how we might use our professions, as planners and designers, to change the institutions that enable or cause the challenges.
- Day 2: Alternatives to Monumentality
- Panelists: Bryan Lee Jr. Dr. Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák Rebecca Belmore Mayor Marvin Rees
- For our second event in this series, “Alternatives to Monumentality,” moderator Salamishah Tillet talks with an artist, a historian, a public official, and a placemaker to reimagine the form, function, and role of monuments as we move into the future. Among the broad topics our panel will engage are: how displacing and recontextualizing monuments in post-Soviet Eastern Europe changed the meaning and understanding of these works; how the “Paper Monuments” project in New Orleans centered the Black experience and surfaced untold histories; how interactive performance art creates a space to honor Indigenous ancestral wisdom and storytelling traditions; and more.
- The early efforts at historic preservation presumed a “collective memory,” meaning references to a past that is accepted as commonly shared and that is collectively commemorated. It assumes general agreement on the events of the past that should be recounted and their meaning. This “collective memory” has been used to construct narratives that define communities and urge specific rules and values that should be embraced. In recent years, we have come to see that that “collective memory” is indeed “curated memory,” and that memorializing it in public spaces has enabled the assertion of power by the curators over others and has often excluded those others from the stories of the nation, sometimes intentionally and other times, unthinkingly. The challenge going forward is how to enable our institutions (legal, political and social), as well as individual designers and planners, to rewrite the narratives to reveal memories of a diverse people.
- Organized by the Real Estate Development Program in collaboration with Diane Branch ‘03 MSRED and the Black Alumni Council at Columbia University.
- Ticketed ($10)
- Omar Degan was born and grew up in Turin, Italy and is a Somali architect who holds a BA in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Turin, and an MSc (Hons) in Architecture for Sustainability from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is the founder and principal of DO Architecture and Design, an architecture firm based in Mogadishu, which specializes in sustainability, emergency architecture and post-conflict reconstruction. After an international career, Omar returned permanently to his ancestral home Somalia to support the post-conflict reconstruction process. The reclamation of priorly existing public spaces and gardens, and the establishment of new ones is a major focus of his practice. Omar’s BIPOC Hort lecture ‘Public Spaces for Conflict Mitigation’ will center on common green spaces in upgrading post-conflict zones, and the broader roles of public space design in allaying gender, class and internecine animus. BIPOC Hort is honored to have Mr. Degan as the third and final speaker in our first public lecture series. Learn more about him at www.degan-omar.com
- Advocates for Equitable Design Education (AEDE) is a student-run collective at the University of Calgary’s School of Architecture, Landscape, and Planning (SAPL), which is dedicated to the advancement of critical pedagogy in design and recovery of dialogues minimized in current design practices.
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- Black Design in America is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
- Join The Architecture Lobby Toronto’s second C-A-L-L + R-E-S-P-O-N-S-E meeting where we discuss: Architecture on Colonized Land. Feel free to read one or multiple resources from the list on Azure Magazine prior to our gathering. We will be joined by University of Waterloo Adjunct Professor Amina Lalor.
- What does it mean to decolonize? How can we unpack the spatial implications of settler colonialism through the lens of design? What is the role of architectural workers in decolonizing the land known as Canada?
- A lecture by Francis Kéré with response by Amale Andraos, Dean of Columbia GSAPP. Francis Kéré is an internationally renowned Burkinabè architect, recognized for his pioneering approach to design and sustainable modes of construction. His vocation to become an architect comes from a personal commitment to serve the community he grew up in, and a belief in the transformative potential of beauty.
- Lecture by Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University The relationship between criminal justice involvement and housing is complex because the causal arrow goes both ways. Existing research documents a “homelessness-incarceration nexus” whereby homelessness is criminalized, and incarceration leads to homelessness. In this article, we broaden the scope of housing outcomes by considering housing instability more generally and we shift the focus to legal financial obligations (LFOs) as a specific kind of criminal justice sanction, apart from incarceration or the effects of a record.
- "Loudreading Post-Colonial Imaginaries"
- Matt Gonzales and Zarith Pineda will discuss the relationship between urban design and community organizing to create inclusive urban policy. Through a conversation of their research on New York City’s public school segregation and integration efforts they will discuss best practices for meaningful community engagement and pleasure activism.
- Speakers: Navjot Heer, Christin Hu, Chazandra Kern, Sharonda Whatley. Moderator: Fauzia Khanani
- The third workshop in the series, “Decolonizing Design Research: Collective Voice,” will focus on the power of thought convergence in a community. How do collective voices gather? How do they grow together and remain a plurality? How can these voices manifest change and create more equitable spaces and places? This workshop will include conversations between practitioners, researchers, and organizers to bring forward their challenges and triumphs. Workshop attendees will come to understand how shared experiences can result in collective power to produce change in existing processes.
- Speakers: Sara Zewde, Doug Williams.
- This panel will explore the various deviations from Frederick Law Olmsted as the central figure of the beginning of landscape architecture.
- Flores A. Forbes, Associate Vice President for Community Affairs in the office of Government and Community Affairs at Columbia University and Akilah King, CEO of Room To Grow, join Malo Hutson, Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Planning Ph.D. Program in conversation on community collaboration with Columbia University in the City of New York on building together towards partnership and repair. Organized by The Urban Community and Health Equity Lab.
- Landscape architects and other design professionals and educators come together to address racial injustice and equity in the places they teach and the communities they serve. Often the immensity of the problem mutes the actions one takes. This panel of design thought leaders will discuss and demonstrate how landscape architecture as a field of study and practice can reach beyond its academic and professional limits to research issues, design spaces and programs, and engage with communities in long-term commitments as equal participants in a civil and equitable society. Following the opening presentations, there will be moderated breakout discussions.
- Strong leadership and a sense of purpose are part of Kona’s DNA. As an EDSA studio leader with a 27-year career and experience in 30+ countries, his global management sense has positively shaped the outcomes of many environments. Kona’s heritage originates from Liberia, West Africa, which has influenced his sense of community based design and place making. His portfolio ranges from large-scale planning to detailed site design, with emphasis on communities, parks, hospitality, urban public realms, healthcare and campus spaces. Blending sensitivity, context, and creative design solutions, Kona unites a client’s vision with his vanguard viewpoint producing designs with purpose and presence.
- Redefining Taste features Leyden Lewis, Linda Hayslett, Kiyonda Powell and Erin Shakoor, four of the acclaimed creators involved in the making of Obsidian House, moderated by Elle Decor editor Kelley Carter. The conversation will focus on how these trailblazing Black designers have challenged notions of white traditional ideas of "good design" and developed their own formations of taste in general, and specifically related to the contributions for Obsidian House.
- How do we map relations across the Afro-Atlantic? How do the diasporic cultural productions of the sole Spanish-speaking nation in Sub-Saharan Africa connect with works emerging from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (Cuba, Puerto Rico, The Dominican Republic)? What insights do we gain by reading these contemporary works alongside each other? This free, public online lecture as part of the Spring 2021 Intra-Disciplinary Seminar series examines the long history of Atlantic crossings between Equatorial Guinea, and the Latinx Caribbean and engage in a robust discussion about colonialism, diaspora, feminisms, decolonization, literature, and the human.
- How do projects embed design without centering it as the central value in community-serving projects (i.e., building beyond the bench?). LA Más is a non-profit that designs and builds resident-led neighborhood-scale forms of community development with a focus of working in Northeast LA. Hear about how they make affordable housing projects that don’t look affordable, storefront redesigns that aren’t superficial, and what it takes to do small, yet impactful projects.
- Tune in @BADGUILD on Instagram. A deep dive into the inspiration and intention of OBSIDIAN's spaces for art, entertainment, and recreation with Kesha Franklin, Linda Allen, Lisa Turner, and Everick Brown.
- Speakers: Elizabeth Kennedy, Dayton Schroeter
- This panel will explore the interpretation of various historically black landscapes that have been buried under urban infrastructure.
- Join us on for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and emerging designers about Alex's dynamic practice as a graphic designer; Studio Lin's collaborations with contemporary artists, photographers, architecture firms, and cultural institutions; and his advice to those interested in pursuing graphic design as a career path.
- Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC).*
- Thank you for your interest in our first Portfolio Review and Workshop on February 26th. Please be prepared to present your completed or in progress work digitally via zoom. There are opportunities for peer group reviews, individual reviews, and all students are encouraged to have a minimum of 3-5 pages for review. Appointments are limited and are on a first come, first serve basis. Please RSVP by February 15th.
- This 2-hour* interactive webinar will dive deeper into defining white supremacy and how it shows up beyond overt acts of hatred, explore how white supremacy is upheld in the ideologies and practices of “traditional” design thinking, and examine how we might shift design mindsets to more equitable, diverse, and inclusive practice.
- A conversation with Michelle Joan Wilkinson, and Dayton Schroeter
- Emmanuel will show the work, process and vision of the Sweet Water Foundation, a Chicago-based regenerative community. Sweet Water utilizes a blend of urban agriculture, art and education to transform vacant spaces and abandoned buildings into economically and ecologically productive and sustainable community assets that produce engaged youth, skilled workers, art, locally-grown food, and affordable housing.
- Sablan’s talk I Was Asked to Stand empowers audiences to dismantle injustice by exploring—and confronting—the lack of representation, documentation, and acknowledgment of diverse designers and architects and their many great works. The discussion will speak to the historical infrastructure oppressing women and BIPOC architects; present programs and initiatives that fight for justice; and to future collaborations that aspire to achieve a built environment eradicated of racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression.
- Speakers: Drew Sargent, C.L. Bohannon
- This panel will explore the underacknowledged contributions of Black/African American stewards of the American landscape as a form of resistance.
- Panelists: Michael Reed, Cheryl McKissack Daniel, Steve Lewis, Dina A. Griffin,
- Moderator: Nicole Hollant‐Denis,
- This program continues the dialog about designing an inclusive urban realm. Join a panel of interdisciplinary experts and explore how we can influence change towards a more equitable built environment.
- Panelists: Aristotle Theresa, Cecil Bakalor, Joyce Hwang, Kia Weatherspoon, Kevin Storm
- This space has been curated in support of the Black maker, our journey, our thoughts and our businesses. There’s a seat at the table for you, no glass ceilings. We invite you to join us on February 18th to kick it with your siblings in design. To share your thoughts with each other and the design community. We’ve onboarded fellow Black designers, journalists and vendors to promote our discussion and blur the lines of hierarchy.
- Tensions around race, equity, community, black spaces, and organizing have been at an all-time high this past year. During this month of Black History, we amplify what black history is: world history, revolutionary, and groundbreaking. This Black History Showcase is a chance for anyone to share their voice and show these truths as self-evident, through arts, culture, media, community, ideas, and the presence of Blackness in all its forms. This showcase is an opportunity to amplify the work that has been done this year despite the struggle it was and shine a light to all the good that has come about from it. Please join the discussion with our presenters about their inspiring work. We look forward to organizing and creating sacred space with you.
- A Skywatchers video in collaboration with Irene Gustafson You are invited to attend a screening of the Skywatcher's original documentary film, reimagining the city as our own (trailer: https://vimeo.com/448166814).
- Artists are leading a broad rethinking of heritage, and claiming a central role within preservation practice. In recent years, many BIPOC artists have worked with built heritage to take up the legacies of racial inequities and historical injustices as central themes in their work. Artists confront, challenge, or reframe the role of heritage in society. What will the future of preservation look like as art becomes more central in the profession? This symposium convenes BIPOC artists who integrate heritage – and all its sociopolitical implications today – into their works and explores the intersection between art and preservation.
- Kafi Dixon: Producer
- James Rutenbeck: Producer/Director/Writer/Editor
- Join Design As Protest collective members for a letter writing action during Black History Month to show love and solidarity with incarcerated folks! We will learn about the challenges they are facing right now, provide names and addresses of folks to write to, and share other helpful resources and calls to action during the digital event. Email any questions to navheer29@gmail.com and we hope to see you soon!
- Panelists: Bryan C. Lee Jr. (Moderator), Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Cheyenne Concepcion, Ada Pinkston, Melinda James
- This program seeks to examine the questions of the purpose of monuments, memorials, and sites of gathering in our cities. If memorials and monuments are how we share and shape a collective narrative, how are certain narratives being told? In what ways can memorials and rituals be a space of joy, to generate new ways of what we want to see in the future and to make these practices active sites of reconciling the truth about our past. Looking at memorials for Jews killed in the Holocaust, who America decides to memorialize and overlook, as well as murals for Black lives and other more ephemeral modes – these films and discussion ask us to reckon with how we create space and time for mourning that can be inspiration for a more just future.
- Lectures are held on Mondays at 5:00 p.m. via Webex events - see below for details, unless otherwise noted, and are free and open to the public.
- How can landscape designers, architects, and planners create more accessible and inclusive landscapes for disabled folks across the spectrum of disability? Don't miss the 2/23 ACD Webinar. Visit our website to sign up!
- Black Womxn Flourish is reintroducing themselves: Through a series of intimate IG Live conversations we're interviewing each other to offer insight into our past, present and future selves. And, inviting you to join in to listen and ask us some juicy questions.
- Please join us for an incredible and empowering collaboration with QTP: Queering The Parks, of the Chicago Parks District. DCo humbly turns over our platform to the shining viewpoints of a trio of dynamic, queer and trans community youth organizers from Chicago neighborhoods. QTP's trio will introduce their Initiative, invigorating participants to share and converse on the powerful impacts youth movements and queer perspectives hold in galvanizing inclusive urban spaces. The discussion will touch on their meanings of 'safe' and 'safe space', advocacy, belongingness, and accessibility, to name a few. Register here.
- Ash Baccus-Clark is a Los Angeles and Berlin-based Molecular & Cellular Biologist and multidisciplinary artist who uses new media and storytelling to explore themes of deep learning, cognition, memory, race, trauma, and systems of belief. This talk will begin with a 20-minute presentation by Ash Baccus-Clark, followed by a 40-minute conversation with participants, moderated by members of black beyond.
- Walter Hood is the Creative Director and Founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. Hood Design Studio is a cultural practice, working across art, fabrication, design, landscape, research and urbanism. He is also the David K. Woo Chair and the Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He lectures on and exhibits professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally. He was recently the Spring 2020 Diana Balmori Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture.
- Speakers: Pablo de Greiff, Amah Edoh, Pedro Monaville, Liliane Umubyeyi. Moderated by Esra Akcan.
- This panel will explore the theme of reparations and restitutions to bring justice to the residual inequalities caused by slavery and colonization. It will focus on the recent developments to institute a sort of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Belgium, which was approved in Summer 2020 in the form of a parliamentary Special Commission to scrutinize the country’s colonial past. The multidisciplinary panel puts into conversation scholars who will comment on the history of Belgium colonization in Congo, on the recent movements in conjunction with Black Lives Matter including the toppling of the King Leopard II Monument that sparked the demand for accountability, and on the current debate around truth and reconciliation in Belgium, as well as its place in other transitional justice processes around the world.
- Jay Cephas is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Northeastern University conducting research that explores the relationships between labor, technology, and identity in the history and theory of the built environment. Jay was recently awarded a Graham Foundation grant to support the Black Architects Archive, a respository of under-represented architects from across 200 years of history. Jay served as a 2019 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amhert and previously earned a Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism from Harvard University. Jay is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education.
- Presented by New England Chapter / Society of Architectural Historians.
- Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled And/Or. This lecture will feature Liza Jessie Peterson and Raphael Sperry, introduced by Elias Beltran, for a discussion of art and architecture.
- Speakers: Alexa Bush, Elycia Thomas-Knight
- This panel will explore the intersections between landscape architecture and tactical urbanism as a means to test and evaluate urban development projects and policies.
- Black Womxn Flourish is reintroducing themselves: Through a series of intimate IG Live conversations we're interviewing each other to offer insight into our past, present and future selves. And, inviting you to join in to listen and ask us some juicy questions.
- Join us on Thursday, February 25 at 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and emerging designers about how Zeina built MILLIØNS and her advice to those interested in starting an experimental practice. Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC).
- Panelists: Donovan Dunkley, Jerome Haferd, Marvine Pierre, Nick Roseboro, Ralph Jackson, Talisha Sainvil. Moderators: Curt Harris, Kholisile Dhliwayo.
- The event will be an open conversation and will delve into the topics of race, identity, and industry trends and how these three topics are key to creating an inclusive working environment which promotes diversity and individuality.
- Join Yale University Library in partnership with MIT Libraries the week of February 22 - 26 for the BIPOC in the Built Virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and learn about the origins of this campaign that started summer 2020 at MIT. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, graphic design, activism, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, dance, and more connected to the built environment will have pages created and/or edited throughout the week. After a short introduction held live via Zoom on February 22nd, stay for the kick off of our week-long virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon where attendees can participate in training and events that will build community around creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages. Please join us for any portion of the event, but do Register at the link to come.
- A two-part panel discussion among Aunnauruq Twyla Thurmond, Maurice Bailey, Whitney Barr, Robin Bronen, Dean Hardy, Radley Horton, Malgosia Madajewicz, Dorothy Peteet,Shavonne Smith, Annauk Denise Olin, Jazz Watts and Kate Orff, Professor and Director of GSAPP’s Urban Design Program.
- Black, Indigenous, and people of color are on the front lines of climate change. Sea level rise, accelerating erosion, saline intrusion, the loss of fisheries and coastal livelihoods, and repeat flooding present not only economic impacts but existential threats to continued existence of the communities and their cultures as many are faced with the unthinkable – What is the role of design to reduce harm and help build pathways toward economic and ecological resilience? This web-based panel will explore perspectives from three groups - the Shinnecock of Long Island, the Gullah/Geechee of coastal Georgia, and residents of the Alaskan Native Village of Shishmaref - in terms of the hazard exposure, ecological changes, and cultural and institutional responses.
- Join the NOMA Executive Board for the quarterly Virtual Town Hall meeting at 5:00pm EST. We will be discussing important announcements and updates on Conference, Competitions, and more. We will also be answering any questions you may have!
- Parent, ceremonial designer and outdoor futurist Jocelyn Rice is a visionary creative force and an award-winning apparel designer. She is the founder and CEO of @BLACKEARTHUNITED and creator of The Through Line conference. Rice is also a contributor to the “We Design” exhibition, was a 2017 Ski Magazine Gear of the Year award winner, and in 2021 joined the board of Built Oregon.
- This event gathers student organizers and educators from around the country and the world to share insight, strategy, and experiences. From within the school of architecture, participants will include staff, faculty, and students, including the newly established Architecture Lobby and NOMAS chapters at the Cooper Union’s school of architecture, past and current graduate and undergraduate Thesis students and faculty, and members of the curriculum committee and Anti-Racist Taskforce for Cooper Union’s School of Architecture.
- Students, educators, parents, and professionals will hear from esteemed speakers in and around the architecture, engineering, and construction industry about these most important topics. This FREE virtual workshop with discussion, conversation, and activities will be held via Zoom from 11:00am - 3:00pm. A certificate will be issued to all participants.
- Black Womxn Flourish is reintroducing themselves: Through a series of intimate IG Live conversations we're interviewing each other to offer insight into our past, present and future selves. And, inviting you to join in to listen and ask us some juicy questions.
- The symposium is organized into two panels on March 02. The morning panel, Infrastructures of Care, will examine architectures of care through frameworks of labor, ecology, and community. Panelists include Maria S. Giudici, Torsten Lange, Sarah Nichols, and Rosario Talevi. The afternoon panel, Embodiments of Care, will unpack architectures of care through the lens of the body and its political, material, and affective conditions. Panelists include Jia Yi Gu, f-architecture, HOME-OFFICE, and Fabiola López-Durán.
- The Carl R. Ruskin Lecture presents Dr. Lawrence Brown discussing mapping Baltimore's apartheid and his book, The Black Butterfly: the Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America. Moderated by Professor Willow Lung-Amam.
- Join us for a talk with the Fall 2020 Joseph Esherick Visiting Professor of Practice, founder of AGWms_studio and CED Distinguished Alum. Allison will give an overview of her work.
- LiA (Latinos in Architecture) seeks to promote and empower the Latino design community in Los Angeles through outreach, professional development, education, and community engagement; and to become an open resource for architects, the architectural profession and the community at large about issues impacting the Latino community. Our first 2021 session will focus on where we are today, by discussing the findings of the Where are My People? Hispanic and Latinx in Architecture survey with the author Kendall A. Nicholson.
- The “art of building,” that is Architecture emerges concurrent with Europe’s colonial misadventures in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Modernity builds its superior “culture,” with its forms, aesthetics, and practices, above and beyond the primitive, savage, barbarous, backward, folk, and the racial other. If as poet Fred Moten posits “study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice,” then the body of work—writings, projects, exhibitions and performances—by Mabel O. Wilson and her transdisciplinary practice Studio& asks: can the practice of architecture become a “Black study”?
- Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled And/Or. “EHKOOO” will feature Kayode Ojo and Olu Obafemi, introduced by Ebony L. Haynes, for a discussion of art and architecture.
- Portland networking group Diversity in Design, will host a virtual casual conversation as a kick-off and preview to our upcoming Spring event focused on empowering and supporting BIPOC students and emerging professionals. Hear from our event collaborators COMMA, We Are Here, and Your Street Your Voice/Camp ELSO as we discuss the meaningful impact of having a creative Career Collaborator in your corner and how we can support BIPOC students and emerging professionals.
- Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman are principals in Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, a research-based political and architectural practice in San Diego, investigating issues of informal urbanization, civic infrastructure and public culture, with a special emphasis on Latin American cities. They are also the John G. Williams Distinguished Visiting Professors in Architecture this semester in the Fay Jones School.
- Lecture by Nisha Botchwey, PhD, MCRP, MPH, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology Associate Dean Academic Affairs, Georgia Tech Professional Education
- Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is founding Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, which advances scholarship concerned with displacement and dispossession in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the world. Ananya’s work has focused on urban transformations and land grabs as well as on global capital and predatory financialization.
- FAME (Female Architects of Minority Ethnic) collective celebrates the successes of the women in the built environment and exposes the barriers they face through narratives of their lived experiences. Sharing their ‘pathways to success’ and the challenges they have overcome in their career from both the public and private sector. Through this lens, we will review the systemic inequality in the built environment and planning system.
- Watch here. Robin Mazumder is an award winning urban neuroscientist with a keen interest in understanding how living in cities impacts well-being. His PhD research, funded by the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, used wearable technology in real and immersive virtual reality settings to examine psychological and physiological responses to the urban built environment. His research interests are informed by his clinical experience working as mental health occupational therapist in the urban cores of Canadian cities, including Toronto and Edmonton. Working with individuals with mental illnesses in urban environments provoked curiosity into how different settings, from busy streets to parks, inhibited or supported wellbeing.
- The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly upended assumptions of human habitation, proximity and health and demands a reassessment of a century and half of public health governance in society and its manifestations both locally and trans-locally. This presentation draws attention to how historical models of public health have aggravated racial, class and spatial disparities that make essential workers, immigrant workers and impoverished urban communities acutely vulnerable, while middle and upper class communities command relative safety and health preservation resources. By examining how “Chinatowns” as racial ghettos were created, targeted, policed, and reformed, this presentation addresses the social and spatial challenges of the logics of "health security."
- Just like there are many ways to be a designer, there are also many ways to be an activist designer. From the Mexico/U.S. border to the streets of Cairo; from an intensive care unit to a video game screen; and from objects to global infrastructures, designers are highlighting their presence and their important role in shaping social and political progress.
- A lecture by Nupur Chaudhury, member of the American Planning Association, the American Public Health Association, an Urban Design Forum’s Forefront Fellow, a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow, board member of the Center for the Living City as well as Matthew Clarke, Executive Director of the Design Trust for Public Space, where he advocates for the power of public space to build vibrant, equitable communities.
- Hosted by AIA Chicago’s LGBTQI+ Alliance & AIA Austin’s LGBTQIA+ Alliance Join us for the virtual Building Equity event featuring a panel of esteemed speakers discussing design equity and the LGBTQIA+ community. We will also celebrate with a happy hour that features an interactive performance by Drag Queen Mini Pearl Necklace.
- What is Critical Resistance and abolition? Why is abolition important for BIPOC communities? How can abolitionist practices heal our communities and contribute to building resilience? Please join APANO community members, in a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) only space, for the next gathering of our Resilience Series: Resilience and Healing Through Abolitionist Practice. We will be joined by Jamani Montague (she/he/they) and Shannon Hardt (she/her) of Critical Resistance to learn about the abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex and why this work is important and can contribute to healing for communities of color.
- Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled And/Or. “Body and Ground” will feature Jeneen Frei Njootli and Manuel Axel Strain, narrated by Patricia Marroquin Norby, for a discussion of art and architecture.
- Jeneen Frei Njootli is a 2SQ Vuntut Gwitchin artist working in performance, sound, textiles, images, collaboration, workshops and feral scholarship. Manuel Axel Strain is a 2-spirit interdisciplinary artist with Musqueam/Simpcw/Syilx heritage based in the stolen, sacred ancestral lands, water, and air of the Katzie/Kwantlen peoples. Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha) is an associate Curator of Native American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Mexico City-based architecture and urban design studio Taller Capital was founded in 2010 by José Pablo Ambrosi and Loreta Castro-Reguera.
- Pascale Sablan is a New York-based architect and activist who works “to advance architecture for the betterment of society,” bringing visibility to issues concerning women and BIPOC designers. She is the founder and executive director of Beyond the Built Environment, an organization with the goal of addressing “the inequitable disparities in architecture by providing a holistic platform aimed to support numerous stages of the architecture pipeline.”
- The Settler Colonial City Project is a research collective focused on the collaborative production of knowledge about cities on Turtle Island/Abya Yala/The Americas as spaces of ongoing settler colonialism, Indigenous survivance, and struggles for decolonization. Trained both as architects and as architectural historians, SCCP co-founders Andrew Herscher and Ana María León will discuss the work of the collective as an intersection of practice, research, and pedagogy. In light of current prompts for change in architectural curricula, they will problematize how institutions have embraced and conflated depoliticized notions of decolonization and anti-racism.
- Mobility is central to freedom and for African Americans mobility has been denied from the beginning of the United States. Driving While Black, explores one of the most pressing racial issues of our time, examining space and how it is divided by race and what happens to black people when they travel on the road. This story, at once deeply troubling and inspiring for what it reveals about African American ingenuity and courage provides a way for us to understand American democracy, civil rights and personal freedom. The story also holds a special message for those of us engaged in the preservation of historic spaces.
- This one-day conference organized by Assistant Professor Hiba Bou Akar, brings leading planning and urban scholars who are re-thinking the field of urban planning and policy from postcolonial, decolonial, and abolitionist perspectives. It asks the following two interrelated questions: What are the futures of the field of urban planning, and what futures we ought to plan for when the future that is imagined in most of the world is one of state violence, dispossession, exploitation, war and conflict, pandemics, and climate change?
- The manifestA syllabus talks are conversations between activist-thinkers, scholars of the built environment, and A-School students. They are based on a selection of writings and readings of the speaker's choosing and are committed to an atmosphere of open and honest dialogue. Hosted by manifestA, a student organization for Equity in the Built Environment at the UVA School of Architecture. All talks are free and open to the public.
- Speakers: Mayor Stephen K. Benjamin (Columbia, SC), Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (Jackson, MS), Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard (Mount Vernon, NY), Mayor Errick D. Simmons (Greenville, MS), Mayor Yvonne M. Spicer (Framingham, MA), Mayor Vince R. Williams (Union City, GA), Mayor Randall L. Woodfin (Birmingham, AL).
- Moderators and Responders: Toni L. Griffin, Bryan C. Lee, Jr, Brent Leggs, Michael Murphy
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and emerging designers about Benjamin's role as Design Director of Global Brand Experience at Nike and his advice to those interested in pursuing a path in experience design.
- Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC).
- In “Counterparts: Talking, Teaching, Testing, Telling,” Lesley Lokko and Sumayya Vally will join Dean Ila Berman and Places editor Nancy Levinson to explore race, gender, identity, difference and diaspora and their vexed relationship to architectural canon.
- This virtual symposium will bring together several of North America’s most innovative architects, urban designers and scholars for a two-part conversation exploring “piggybacking practices” in relation to contemporary forms of inequality in the built environment. Participants include the founders of Landing Studio, New Affiliates, Interboro, Ants of the Prairie, Clare Lyster Urbanism and Architecture, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, Lateral Office and cityLAB UCLA.
- In this session, panelists will present a wide range of solutions and case studies from North America, Europe, Africa, and Australasia. These examples will explore the role of comprehensive planning to address climate migration and relocation, buyouts and community relocations, and associating visioning to recovery processes through community engagement.
- Speakers: Osamu Murao, Professor, Tohoku University; Sekap “Jacob” Esah, Cabinet Minister, Marshall Islands, Chuuk, Micronesia; Jane Gilbert, Former Chief Resilience Officer, City of Miami; Rob Freudenberg, Vice President, Energy and Environment, Regional Plan Association
- A discussion between artist, Olalekan Jeyifous and UC Berkeley assistant professor of Geography, Dr. Brandi T. Summers on the generative power of collaboration and the potential for speculative architecture as a means to develop comprehensive constructions of urban Utopias/Dystopias that engage with a variety of social, political, and environmental realities.
- Gabrielle Bullock is a Principal and Director of Global Diversity for Perkins+Will, has shaped an architectural career that focuses on her two passions: design and social justice. She is the recipient of the 2020 AIA Whitney Young Jr. Award for her commitment to social justice. As designer and principal, she has been a key player in Perkins+Will’s success for more than 25 years, leading numerous complex and high-profile projects, including the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, one of the largest building projects ever completed for the University of California system.
- Join us in conversation with Jonathan Key and Wael Morcos, designers of the book Black Futures, the first iteration of “The Black Futures Project” by co-editors Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham. Hear how the team created a dynamic, nonlinear experience to answer the question: What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?
- Hosted by the UC Berkeley Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning department.
- Rebecca Brown, Swati Chattopadhyay, and Avishek Ray participate in a conversation with Assistant Professor Ateya Khorakiwala. This conversation aims to consider the histories of the built environment in the wake of their failures during this past year through the pandemic. If we locate the history of infrastructure in the techno-scientific rationalities of colonial extractivisms and post-colonial developmentalism, then what have been the vectors of power that are crystalized in the built environment that have determined the betrayal of laboring bodies? How has a politics of ever expanding extractivism located itself on the bodies of working people? Is infrastructure a structure of power or a technique of violence?
- This virtual symposium will bring together several of North America’s most innovative architects, urban designers and scholars for a two-part conversation exploring “piggybacking practices” in relation to contemporary forms of inequality in the built environment. Participants include the founders of Landing Studio, New Affiliates, Interboro, Ants of the Prairie, Clare Lyster Urbanism and Architecture, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, Lateral Office and cityLAB UCLA.
- Join editors Annie Coombs and Zoë Malliaros and report contributors Dawnee LeBeau, Tatewin Means, Lakota Vogel, and Sharon Vogel, as they share findings and highlights from their American Roundtable report on the Cheyenne River Reservation. Their informal presentation will be followed by discussion on some of the report’s key ideas and provocations with American Roundtable Project Director Nicholas Anderson and League Executive Director Rosalie Genevro.
- As a collective effort of raising the voices of Black Indigenous People of Color, @socalnoma student chapters have prepared a series of lectures across the 9 participating Schools of Architecture that highlights and celebrates the work and achievements of designers of color. We invite respected guests and NOMAS members across SoCal to these talks. Together we hope to inspire and empower, to continue to be voices of the future of architecture. CP SLO NOMAS presents the fifth lecture in the series on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 12pm PDT. The NOMAS family would love to see you there!
- WAI Think Tank is hosting Bryan C. Lee Jr and Jasiri X through Ways of Worldmaking, a lecture and discussion series that welcomes a global array of practices engaging with contemporary questions and ways to practice architecture today. Ways of Worldmaking is part of WAI Think Tank’s professional practice class at Virginia Tech A+D.
- Join expert panelists Glenn Cantave, Cheyenne Concepcion, and Marisa Williamson as they share their own projects and experiences of activating public spaces and building coalitions through new media technologies. The panel will discuss how digital tools can serve broader publics, create new kinds of memorials, and challenge our inherited monument landscapes.
- In this conversation, architectural historians Ana María León and Torsten Lange consider the labor of organizing around issues of gender in architecture. Based on three precedents, they will reflect on their work and practice and highlight how the present has allowed scholars and practitioners to revise architectural historiography. Building on intersectional feminist theory, the discussion considers architecture and urban space as well as architectural discourse as forums where white heteronormative systems of planning can become subverted by empowered labor and living practices.
- Andre Perry, Senior Fellow of the Metropolitan Policy program of the Brookings Institute and author of Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities; Kevin McGruder (‘84 MBA), Vice President of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of History at Antioch College and author of Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920(Columbia University Press, June 2015); and Brian Goldstein, Assistant Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College and author of The Roots of Urban Renaissance will be joined in conversation by Diane Branch, JD ('03 MSRED). Introduction by Patrice Derrington, Holliday Associate Professor and Director of GSAPP’s Real Estate Development Program.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students, emerging designers, and educators about Dori's role as Dean of Design at Ontario College of Art and Design University and her advice to those interested in creating progressive change within the educational system.
- In 1959, John S. Chase, the first African American to be licensed as an architect by the State of Texas – but that only after petitioning the state for special permission to sit for the exam – completed a remarkable modern house for his own family in Houston. Though largely ignored within architecture, the house as a gathering place was a landmark in local, state, and national culture and politics. You should know it. The presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q & A moderated by Nader Tehrani.
- We are starting up new, bi-monthly, "Welcome to DJN" meetings! This will be a space for people who want to learn more about DJN, as well as new DJN members, to meet one another, learn about how to plug in to the network, learn a little bit more about the history and vision, and ask any questions that they might have. (We will rotate the times of these meetings to suit the needs of the network and multiple time zones!)
- The exhibit in the Virtual Bauer Wurster First Floor Lobby will present full-scale models of several mobile responses that Designing Justice + Designing Spaces has created and deployed as part of their work to address the root causes of mass incarceration.
- Restore Berkeley (The Peace Room) is a temporary installation in Room 108 of Virtual Bauer Wurster Hall that demonstrates an idealized space for peacemaking. During the course of the installation, the Restorative Justice Center will host virtual events while also providing opportunities for open drop-ins and trainings for the entire university community.
- How do we reckon with the past to create a future? Who tells the history of your neighborhood? How do we attain spatial justice? This discussion will expand and explore questions raised in the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America by inviting the panelists and audience members to consider their positions, choices, and personal and collective power in working to protect and create Black urban spaces. This event is moderated by Ifeoma Ebo and is planned in collaboration with the BlackSpace Urbanist Collective. Audiences are encouraged read BlackSpace’s manifesto in advance of the event.
- Speakers: Ifeoma Ebo, Sekou Cooke, Mario Gooden, J. Yolande Daniels, Felecia Davis, Peggy Shepard
- Join us for a half-day symposium in collaboration with the recently established Asian Architects Association (AAA) exploring the steps towards a decolonised architectural education. Chaired by AAA co-founder Karl Mok, the discussion will seek to propose a blueprint for the future of architectural education, with panelists and students alike sharing their thoughts and experiences. Karl is joined by Dr Kamna Patel, Associate Professor at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, Ming Cheng, tutor at the London School of Architecture, Sanaa Shaikh, tutor at Oxford Brookes and director of Native Studio, Khensani de Klerk, founder of Matri-Archi(tecture) and researcher at Cambridge, and Shumi Bose, Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martins.
- The 2021 Eleanore Pettersen Lecture will be introduced and moderated by Nader Tehrani. The initial discussion, which will last approximately 45 minutes, will take the form of a dialogue between Lesley Lokko and Sumayya Vally and touch upon race, gender, identity, difference and diaspora and their vexed relationship to architectural canon. The conversation will be joined by Nader Tehrani who will moderate questions from the audience
- Last Fall, the Center for Social Design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) invited Denise Shanté Brown of Black Womxn Flourish to design and facilitate a two-part guided module, Design as a Pathway to Justice. Bringing together students and community members, they explored existing design justice movements practicing and embodying design to create the worlds we need. To continue this conversation on design justice, Denise Shanté is hosting a public panel as part of MICA’s Mixed Media Speakers series that will gather Wesley Taylor from Design Justice Network, Andrea Ngan from Creative Resilience Collective, and N'Deye Diakhate from Black Womxn Flourish. From rethinking design processes so that they center people marginalized by design, improving access to self-determined mental health care, and Black womxn redefining and designing what it means to be well — they’ll discuss how each movement is propelling us into a more just, compelling future and what design justice could look like during these precarious times.
- OLALEKAN JEYIFOUS (b.1977) is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose work re-imagines social spaces that often examine the relationship between architecture, community, and the environment through a speculative, futurist lens.
- The talk will examine the history, advocacy, and futurity of two current efforts to re-claim and develop site of African enslaved burial in New York State. My work examines how the erased histories, violence, and the proposition of redevelopment of these sites trouble our disciplinary limits of Architecture, Archival practice, and Preservation. Jerome Haferd is an architect and educator based in Harlem, NY. He is co-founder of the design and research practice BRANDT : HAFERD.
- Black folks have historically and perhaps will always have a troubled, fraught relation to institutions. Vexed and vexing, arguably, the only way to exist within and in relation to institutions—whether they be those of the academy, the state, or both—is antagonistically. Notes from Within invites potential prospective and already accepted students to sit in fellowship and exchange with members of the Black Student Alliance at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University [BSA+GSAPP].
- Deanna Van Buren is the Executive Director, Design Director, and Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), an architecture and real estate development non-profit building infrastructure to end mass incarceration.
- Following her lecture, Deanna will join for a short panel discussion around racist structures embedded in the nonprofit sector and how they are impacted by community infrastructure: Matthew Countryman, U-M Department of Afroamerican & African Studies Yodit; Mesfin Johnson, NEW Center; Jessica Letaw, Building Matters Ann Arbor. Moderated by Anya Sirota, U-M Taubman College
- Designer and activist Bryan C. Lee, Jr will convene with the founders of The Black School for a conversation about Black radical pedagogical experiments, past, present, and future. GSD community members Toshiko Mori and Tara Oluwafemi will join for the second half of the program.
- In 1976, Chicago developer Charles Shaw bought nearly one million cubic feet of air above the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art for 17 million dollars, relieving the Museum of their debt problems. Bought under New York City’s Transfer of Development Rights, Shaw used his rights to air space in the construction of a 56-floor apartment tower on 53rd Street. Mayor Beame hailed the “self-help project” a success, claiming that the transaction showed “how government and the private sector can cooperate in achieving the common goal of improving lives in the city.” Transfer of air rights was not new, however the relationship between architects, Harlem, and MoMA in presenting experimental, bureaucratized architectural visions to the public is specific to the late 1960s. This talk discusses these visions and the context of Harlem, where a range of surreptitious and highly choreographed mechanisms of abstraction were tested out and exhibited at MoMA in a demonstration plan for the neighborhood in 1967.
- In this presentation, Germane Barnes and Shawhin Roudbari will share their respective work on black occupations of space and white hegemony. They present the intersection of their work as the basis of the forthcoming special issue of MAS Context, where they work with collaborators to interrogate architectural expressions of vigilantism.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and emerging designers about how Sumayya started Counterspace and her advice to those interested in architectural and spatial forms of social and political engagement.
- Mariam Kamara is an architect from Niger who studied architecture at the University of Washington. In 2013, she became a founding member of architectural collective, united4design.
- The Harvard Indigenous Design Collective proudly presents a 2-part panel discussion on Native Housing featuring the nations leading Indigenous architects, designers, & urban planners on April 9th.
- Session 1: 12:00-1:30pm ET. Tamarah Begay, Joseph Kunkel, Ted Jojola
- Session 2: 2:00-3:30pm ET. Chris Cornelius, Selina Martinez, Johnpaul Jones
- Editors Lizzie MacWillie, Kelsey Menzel, Jesse Miller, and Josué Ramirez and report contributors Edna Ledesma and ChristinaMaria Xochitlzihuatl Patiño Houle present the report Brownsville Undercurrents and discuss key themes and findings.
- As architecture professionals, teachers, and students continue to grapple with unlearning the white supremacy that fundamentally structures our discipline, it can be difficult to know where to begin, let alone what to do. It takes time and practice to learn how to speak about anti-racism, to apprehend the insights of recent revisionist histories focusing on race, and to build new, anti-racist ways of teaching and practicing. Join members of the Race and Modern Architecture Project (R+MAP) and Dark Matter University (DMU) for this participatory workshop focusing on how racism has shaped architectural pedagogy and practice, with special attention to unpacking concepts such as power/privilege, expertise, and the notion of the universal human.
- Register for the Community Planning & Design Initiative, Africa (CPDI Africa)’s Global Studio Session Two courses!
- The Evolution of Yoruba Architecture and Contemporary Environment
- Anti-Developed Clinic: The Becoming of a Design Culture Course
- Theoretical Frameworks in Afrocentric Architecture
- Green Architecture from African Centered Perspectives
- The Architecture of Ghana, from Ancestry to Independence and Beyond
- The Evolution and Transformation of African Centered Architecture
- Transitions in the Traditional Art & Architecture of the Igbo and Bamileke
- Sustainability in African Traditional Architecture
- Assessing Afrocentric New Buildings for West African Cultural Landscapes
- Towards an African American Inspired Architecture
- How has race shaped urban neighborhoods in American cities? How have processes of neighborhood change resulted in the erasure of Black design traditions? What are some steps toward restorative reconstruction and who is responsible for the labor of reconstruction? This event will examine the history, present and future of Black neighborhoods. It grows out of questions posed from two exhibitions, Reconstructions @ MoMA and Undesign the Redline @ Barnard (coming Fall 2021), that address how race has structured neighborhoods in American cities.
- Justin Garrett Moore is a transdisciplinary designer and urbanist and is the executive director of the New York City Public Design Commission. He has extensive design and planning experience—from large-scale urban systems, policies, and projects to grassroots and community-focused planning, design, and arts initiatives.
- Enjoy a special showcase of three ongoing projects at the local and national levels around the theme of Black girls, Black voices, and Black history. Graduate students from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design (CED) reelaviolette botts-ward, Zachary McRae, and Rasheed Shabazz will share their projects, then host a discussion and Q&A.
- Adrienne Brown will present an overview of her new project, which traces how theories about ownership as a racialized capacity shaped the history of real estate and redlining in the age of mass homeownership. She brings this work into conversation with the afterlives of “40 acres and a mule” in the 1930s via W.E.B. Du Bois and Richard Wright, which is the subject of her essay “Reconstruction’s Breadth” in the field guide to the current exhibition at MoMA, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.
- Kemi Adeyemi delivers a free, public online lecture as part of the Spring 2021 Intra-Disciplinary Seminar that tends to black queer parties that aren’t particularly interesting or important. It spotlights black queer people on and off the dance floor who are tired, bored, or simply fine; there are bad dancers and awkward conversation. The tedious, if not grueling, nature of queer clublife can tell us a lot, however, about the extraordinary expectations we place on black queer people, life, and politics. This talk builds a methodology of the black queer ordinary that refuses the burdens of spectacularity that shape how black queer life emerges in academic thought and popular culture.
- Jen Wood, Founding Principal, AD–WO, and Emanuel Admassu, Founding Principal, AD-WO, and Associate Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, present the lecture "Immeasurability" on Wednesday, April 14, at 12:00 p.m. via Zoom as recipients of the 2021 Rice Design Alliance Spotlight Award.
- On Wednesday, April 14 the College of Architecture will host Justin Garrett Moore and Shalini Agrawal, members of Dark Matter University, a democratic network of professionals working to create anti-racist outcomes in the built environment. They will speak on the organization’s mission and efforts to create more inclusive and equitable spaces through changes in both design practice and education, as well as on their own design and advocacy work.
- Join us for a talk with Buffalo community activist India Walton, founding executive director of the Fruit Belt Community Land Trust. Walton will present "Running for Our Lives: Creating Equity through Policy and Politics." Having lived through and organized around the inequities faced by Black communities, Walton says Black women are taking their seat at the table to guide policy decisions and lead political movements with the belief that the people closest to the problems are closest to the solutions.
- How do the politics of gentrification play out across race, class, gender, and sexuality? What do these politics look like, and how must we intervene in them to produce a Black and queer city? Join Brandi Summers (UC Berkeley), author of Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City, and Jen Jack Gieseking (U of Kentucky), author of A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers, as they are joined in conversation with Desiree Fields (UC Berkeley) to discuss the similarities, differences, and incommensurabilities between their “Queer New York” and the “Post-Chocolate City,” their participants, and the processes of gentrification in the late 20th and early 21st century US cities.
- Designing for Social Justice recognizes design as a medium for meaningful social change by addressing structural inequalities through an equitable distribution of space and resources. Design justice in architecture challenges social inequalities by a radical rethinking of the design process and encourages architects to use the power of design to imagine alternatives for a more equitable and humane living. On April 15, 2021, the second annual USC School of Architecture (USCA) Research Symposium will provide an opportunity for architects, artists, community organizers, landscape architects, designers, technologists, planners, historians, and critics to share innovative solutions that advance racial justice, equity, diversity, and wellness in the built environment.
- Held virtually and in person
- Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), a dynamic network of more than 94,000 architects and design professionals throughout 200 chapters committed to enhancing the built environment.
- Laura Harjo is a Muscogee (Creek) scholar, award-winning author, and associate professor in Native American Studies and affiliated faculty in the Regional and City Planning program at the University of Oklahoma. Her scholarly inquiry is at the intersection of geography and critical ethnic studies with “community” as an analytic focus.
- Held virtually and in person
- The Red Deal is a political program for the liberation that emerges from the oldest class struggle in the Americas—the fight by Native people to win sovereignty, autonomy, and dignity. As the Red Nation proclaims, it is time to reclaim the life and future that has been stolen, come together to confront climate disaster, and build a world where all life can thrive. One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, The Red Deal is a call to action for everyone, including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land. The stakes are clear, decolonization or extinction.
- Lecture by The Red Nation with Justine Teba, Kiley Guy
- The historic disregard and underdevelopment of the Audubon Ballroom, now known as The Shabazz Center, reflects a racist disinterest in uplifting and sustaining the radical legacy of Malcolm X as part and parcel of the American story. Beyond the work of The Shabazz Center as a memorial and cultural institution, Malcolm X’s legacy must also be employed as a social justice framework and pedagogical model across disciplines that helps to reframe our understanding of power between communities and institutions. Malcolm X’s commitment to anti-imperialism and Black power is a praxis-oriented lens that ought to be used in the work of not simply historians, but also in the work of planners, preservationists, architects and designers who are engaging with the legacy of structural racism in the built environment.
- Lecture by Najha Zigbi-Johnson
- A talk by Dr. Gregory Cajete hosted by the MED Working Group on Anti-Racism and the Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning, and Design at the Yale School of Architecture.
- Acts of Repair proposes an open series of roundtables on the restorative dimensions of architecture among practitioners across design, landscape, arts, curating, pedagogy and advocacy. We invite the public to share in thinking through concepts of repair and reconstruction that may open new visions of an ethical architecture, urbanism, and landscape. Bringing diverse voices and geographies into dialogue, each conversation will address the ways in which structural injustices can be acknowledged, and cultural, affective, and ecological bounds reconceived.
- Acts of Repair proposes an open series of roundtables on the restorative dimensions of architecture among practitioners across design, landscape, arts, curating, pedagogy and advocacy. We invite the public to share in thinking through concepts of repair and reconstruction that may open new visions of an ethical architecture, urbanism, and landscape. Bringing diverse voices and geographies into dialogue, each conversation will address the ways in which structural injustices can be acknowledged, and cultural, affective, and ecological bounds reconceived.
- Fayola Jacobs, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. In this talk, she will discuss Black geographies and Black feminisms as potentially useful lenses for urban planning research on disasters and climate change. She asks, how can these lenses change the questions we ask in disaster research, and how can these changed questions help us arrive at more equitable and just environmental futures?
- Mario Gooden ('90 M. Arch) is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Global Africa Lab at Columbia GSAPP and Principal at Huff + Gooden Architects.
- Join us on April 21st at 5:30 EDT for “Designing for Community: In Conversation with Storme Webber & Miranda Belarde-Lewis.” Storme Webber, a poet & interdisciplinary artist of mixed Afro-Indigenous (Choctaw, Sugpiaq) heritage, will discuss her practice & exhibition “Casino: A Palimpsest” w/ curator, Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Zuni, Tlingit) of the @uwash .
- In conjunction with the upcoming exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America at The Museum of Modern Art, join us for a two-part public event: A conversation with Dean Milton S. F. Curry and the exhibition organizers, followed by a presentation and discussion with the exhibitors. The event will highlight ongoing research that comments on and questions how gentrification and displacement, industry, technology, and other forces affect African Americans and People of Color in the built environment. This program is presented in collaboration with the USC School of Architecture.
- Please join with working group members, signatories, and steering committee members of US Architects Declare on Thursday, April 22 at 3 pm EDT (Earth Day) to mark one year since the launch of the American branch of this global network. We will report on the work of the past year and discuss our goals and actions moving forward. Michael Pawlyn, one of the initiators of Architects Declare and a member of the UK Steering Committee, will join us to discuss a theory of change for working towards a viable future, building on the “three horizons” framework created by Bill Sharpe. His talk will be followed by a Q & A with the audience.
- Speakers: Emanuel Admassu, Savonala Horne, Olalekan Jeyifous. Moderator: David Naguib Pellow.
- This conversation brings architects, climate activists, and audience members together around key questions raised in the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. We will consider the environment as not only land, water, and air, but also the built spaces that we inhabit every day, and which are marked by systemic inequality. The discussion will be moderated by David Naguib Pellow.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for emerging BIPOC designers about redefining the boundaries of graphic design with Eddie Opara of Pentagram. Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and emerging designers who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).
- Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is an associate professor at Harvard University in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of African and African American Studies. She is the founder of the Vision and Justice Project. Lewis has published essays on race, contemporary art, and culture, with forthcoming publications including a book on race, whiteness, and photography (Harvard University Press, 2022), Vision and Justice (Random House), an anthology on the work of Carrie Mae Weems (MIT Press, 2021), and an article focusing on the groundwork of contemporary arts in the context of Stand Your Ground Laws (Art Journal, Winter 2020).
- Organized by Jerrod Delaine and Ron Shiffman, the Pratt Institute School of Architecture Desegregation Think Tank presents a symposium on housing featuring thought leaders in innovative housing policy solutions. This discussion will address racist housing policies that have created generations of inequity. The panelists will then discuss new solutions to this national problem.
- Join editors Quilian Riano and Kristen Zeiber and report contributors Helen Liggett, Gary Honeywood, and Matt Martin, as they share findings and highlights from their American Roundtable report In the Mahoning Valley. Their informal presentation will be followed by discussion on some of the report’s key ideas and provocations with American Roundtable Project Director Nicholas Anderson and League Executive Director Rosalie Genevro.
- This panel will feature special guests Andrea Roberts PhD., founder of the Texas Freedom Colonies Project, and Emma Osore, Managing Director of BlackSpace, in a dialogue with Pratt Historic Preservation alumni Taylor Kabeary MSHP '19 and Eduardo Duarte Ruas MSHP '19 about how historic preservation can work to advance justice, equity and inclusion. The discussion will be moderated by Cynthia Copeland, President of the Institute for Exploration of Seneca Village History and faculty member at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. The diversity of the historic preservation field has been challenged by the systemic disparities facing many from the BIPOC community who seek preservation education and employment. The panelists will explore some of these challenges and discuss how they’re being met by BIPOC scholars, educators and practitioners and their allies.
- We’re designers and researchers working in professionalized workplaces. We’re hosting this workshop to help our peers – that’s you! – apply Design Justice principles in real-life scenarios, and to join our growing community of practice. Participants will leave with strategies and tactics they can use in their workplaces, organizations, and communities.
- Joseph, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, is a Principal at MASS Design Group, where he directs the Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a community designer and educator, focused on sustainable development practices throughout Indian Country.
- Emmanuel Pratt is cofounder and executive director of the Sweet Water Foundation (SWF), a nonprofit organization based on Chicago’s South Side. SWF engages local residents in the cultivation and regeneration of social, environmental, and economic resources in neighborhoods that have suffered the effects of long-term disinvestment.
- How is the kitchen a space of community and conflict, joy and survival? Join architect Germane Barnes, culinary historian Michael Twitty, and food scholar Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson for a conversation about ritual, labor, gender, and food through an exploration of the social space of the kitchen. This program takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.
- “Decolonizing Design Research” is a workshop series that explores how research can create spaces and places that reflect values of anti-racism and justice. The dominance of western design aesthetics and research methods is largely invisible to those who were trained in design. As a result, these practices can reinforce existing power structures that are harmful to many. This workshop series will provide a space to understand how to mitigate bias in design research methods and learn about methods used in other disciplines and contexts. The fourth and final event in this series explores measuring justice in design research and outcomes. The discussion will focus on understanding current metrics for justice and questioning how equitable they are, providing a place to further explore the actors—who they are and who they should be.
- Panelists: A.L. Hu, (they/them), Andrea Kretchmer (she/her), Matthew Clarke (he/him), Taylor Holloway (she/her), Moderator: Tanya de Hoog (she/her)
- The vision of Youth for Parkrose 2021 centers the voices of nineteen Black & Brown Youth in Parkrose through design and community building, while contributing to the Parkrose Community Plan. In seven workshops, the youth learned about and chose one out of the five topics in the Parkrose Community Plan to focus on for their final presentation: Transportation/Green Streets, Jobs & Home-Based Businesses, Housing & Anti-Displacement, Community Place Making/ Connections to Nature, and Emergency Preparedness, Climate, and Disaster Resilience. Overall, we hoped to provide the youth with the tools on how to advocate for important community needs through local leaders as guest speakers and hands-on exercises on each topic.
- Panelists: Leslie Lum, Safiyya Algellal, Seile Tekle, JR Lilly, Tya Winn. Organized by Historic Parkrose (HPR), Your Street Your Voice, Camp Elso, and Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS)
- Please join us for a dialogue with leaders of the Voices Underground Project, Executive Director Gregory Thompson and Cultural Historian Robert Edwards. The Voices Underground Project is an initiative that seeks to increase exposure to the story of the Underground Railroad through creative partnerships, scholarly research, public experiences and historical memorialization. Our conversation will focus on their current work with Lincoln University to promote the nationally significant history of the Underground Railroad in Kennett Square through imaginative site-specific experiences, public engagement, and storytelling.
- Felecia Davis is an Associate Professor at the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University and is the director of SOFTLAB@PSU. This lab is dedicated to developing soft computational materials and textiles and is for the use of Penn State students and faculty, industry and community partners engaged in collaborative research and projects. She is a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective a not for profit group of Black architects, scholars and artists supporting design work about the Black diaspora.
- NOMA Atlanta presents the Storytelling Series, sharing thoughts and ideas on how we, as designers and architects, can play a more integral role in narrating the stories we tell through our design work and community engagement. We are identifying organizations and individuals who showcase impactful ways to celebrate people, art, culture, and history through their design, use of activism, communities and education.
- Join editors Renee Kemp-Rotan and Vickii Howell and community representatives, as they share findings and highlights from their American Roundtable report If We Can Save the Ship, We Can Save the Town. Their informal presentation will be followed by discussion on some of the report’s key ideas and provocations with American Roundtable Project Director Nicholas Anderson and League Executive Director Rosalie Genevro.
- Please join us to discuss Designing a Just City, a book created by students from the Spring 2021 Urban Imaginaries seminar at the California College of the Arts Architecture Division. This publication is a toolkit for linking architectural design techniques to social justice activism. It builds on a 2020 iteration of the book to present architectural case studies, interviews with activists, and an illustrated guide depicting architectural strategies that can support fairness and equity in cities today. In this event, students will present their work and discuss its potential with activists Marquita Price, Director of Urban and Regional Planning at the East Oakland Collective, and Gregory Jackson, Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Sustainable Economies Law Center.
- Join us for a free virtual talk presented by Quinlin Messenger. Honoring the struggle and triumphs of his family’s diverse racial legacy, Messenger will share examples of how design has played a key role in shaping the systemic inequities that face the BIPOC community.
- Register for the Zoom event here. Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid are served by and depend on colonial architectural practice and environmental racism. Understanding how architecture is practiced by settler-colonial movements and nation-states helps us to see how the Palestinian struggle is integral to movements for environmental justice and ecological sanity. RISD Students for Justice in Palestine and RISD’s Architecture department invite you to join us for a conversation on Monday, May 10 from 11:30am-1:00pm EST with guest Palestinian architects Sandi Hilal and Nora Akawi about decolonial architectural practices and the role of architecture in the colonization of Palestine.
- Join us for a discussion on designing an inclusive public realm under the next mayor with Seb Choe, Lindsay Harkema, Margaret Jankowsky, Inbar Kishoni, and Justin Garrett Moore. Thriving neighborhoods have beautiful parks, well-maintained plazas, lively high streets, and welcoming public buildings that encourage New Yorkers to gather and interact. Yet marginalized communities often lack accessibility or a sense of belonging to neighborhood public amenities. To repair decades of exclusion from the design process, cities like Toronto and Vienna are beginning to redesign public space for women, seniors, children, BIPOC, and people with disabilities. As we envision a new city under the next administration, how do we shape a democratic and accessible public realm that serves the most often excluded?
- What Black Is This, You Say? is a public artwork created by artist and architect Amanda Williams for Storefront’s facade. This year-long project translates to the physical realm a body of work initiated by the artist on Instagram. It will be accompanied by a digital program of visual, written, and live content on this website.
- How can writing ground us in the present to help us dream into the future? Through the lens of Afrofuturism, poet, curator, and artist Anaïs Duplan and artist Nikki Gamboa will lead an experimental writing and visioning workshop focused on imagining spaces for liberation, both on and off the page. This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for emerging BIPOC designers about approaching potential employers and crafting a strong portfolio when applying for a job in architecture.
- What if Tulsa, Oklahoma, had become a thriving hub for Black and Indigenous communities? What if the Freedmen’s Bureau had succeeded? Join architect and design justice advocate Bryan Lee with collaborators from Design as Protest collective for a workshop reimagining the historical impacts of unjust built environments, from specific vantage points within American history. This workshop takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.
- We are starting up new, bi-monthly, "Welcome to DJN" meetings! This will be a space for people who want to learn more about DJN, as well as new DJN members, to meet one another, learn about how to plug in to the network, learn a little bit more about the history and vision, and ask any questions that they might have. (We will rotate the times of these meetings to suit the needs of the network and multiple time zones!)
- Please join the Chicago Architecture Biennial for Designing Memory, a program featuring Jha D Williams, Senior Associate and Co-Director of the Public Memory and Memorials Lab at MASS Design Group, and Patricia Nguyen, artist and memorial designer for the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Project. Williams and Nguyen will speak about how projects they are involved with center the voices of survivors and work to memorialize the past while acknowledging the present.
- In her book The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race (JHUP, 2019), Adrienne Brown examines works produced by writers, painters, architects, and laborers who grappled with the early skyscraper's outsized and disorienting dimensions. She explores its effects on how race was seen, read, and sensed at the turn of the twentieth century. A highly interdisciplinary work, The Black Skyscraper breaks new ground in analyzing the influence of race on modern architectural design, as well as considering the effects of these designs on the experience and perception of race.
- Join @yourstreetyourvoice’s Hacker Studio cohort on May 18 for our students’ presentations - this term, local high schoolers put their minds to the task of designing “The New Monuments of Downtown PDX.” They will be joined by a panel of local industry professionals & @nomapdx members as they present their work - register at the link in our profile to sit in & show your support for Portland’s next gen of architects & designers!
- The series will focus on three themes—rest, reciprocity, and respect—that emerged throughout Issue Two, "Pedagogy For a New World." --- SESSION 01_ REST --- Join us for a conversation around prioritizing, envisioning, and designing restorative rituals. This discussion will feature guests Kamra Sadia Hakim and Antonia Estela Pérez Rojas, and will be moderated by Jessica Lynne.
- Dark Matter University (DMU) is a democratic network guided by the principle that we cannot survive and thrive without immediate change toward an anti-racist model of design education and practice. The organization was founded in the summer of 2020 to work inside and outside of existing systems to challenge, inform, and reshape our present world toward a better future. In this session, members of the DMU collective will share one year’s worth of teaching experiences and efforts bringing new design education models to academic institutions all over the U.S. and Canada to better acknowledge and address the structural legacies of racial injustice.
- Hawai‘i is the most remote landmass in the world on the frontier of the COVID and climate crisis. This talk aims to reintroduce the concept of Hawai‘i to the United States, technically and spiritually, as part of an ongoing exploration to empower indigenous Hawaiian knowledge, and the local ecologies of guardianship that Mary Kawena Pukui described as “utilizing the resources of sustenance to a maximum.” The talk foregrounds US settler colonialism not as a singular historical event of the past but as a dynamic militarized system of occupation that continues to impose ecological devastation upon the Hawaiian Islands while perpetuating racial injustices against Hawaiian people (Kanaka Maoli). Whereas, the current grassroots efforts to restore the indigenous systems of land use, governance and cultivation contrast existing urbanism as well as the US military’s spatial occupations of the Pacific since 1898. Importantly, Hawai‘i presents an example where indigenous knowledge is a lifestyle; a mountain-to-ocean connection; a nutrient system; a spatial configuration; a technology; and a way of interaction that is uniquely oceanic. Through the concepts of this work Hawai‘i Non-Linear suggests a new phenomenology for architecture and future possibilities of what it means to be an architect.
- Join Black Lunch Table for a workshop on updating Wikipedia entries to share, explore, and tell stories about architecture, design, and Black cultural production. The edit-a-thon will include training for beginner Wikipedians, reference materials, as well as group and individual editing. While participants are invited to choose their own entries to edit, this edit-a-thon focuses on the architects, artists, and designers featured in the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America and the related online course Reimagining Blackness and Architecture. No prior Wikipedia editing experience is required. Participants will receive an email in advance of the program with instructions on how to create a Wikipedia account and other information to help you get started.
- M&A will celebrate May Day this month by learning about unions: what they are, how to establish your own, and who they empower. Join us for a workshop with Architecture Lobby organizers Keefer Dunn and Shota Vashakmadze, plus a presentation from Olivia Leiter of the MOCA Union. Together we’ll work through the pragmatics and aspirations of labor organizing for architects, students, and scholars alike.
- Join Sekou Cooke and Mabel O. Wilson in conversation as they explore the themes of Cooke's new book, Hip-Hop Architecture (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021). Hear Cooke's perspectives on race, space, and identity through selected readings, followed by a response and Q&A led by Wilson.
- How have Black innovation and prosperity persisted in the face of economic exclusion and racial violence? How does innovation relate to self-determination for Black Americans? And what if safety and equity were guaranteed? This conversation will take histories of Black invention and affluence as starting points to imagine new conditions for the present and future. It brings together architects, artists, and audience members around key questions raised in the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. The discussion will be moderated by Tracie Hall, executive director of the American Library Association.
- Anderson and Wilson describe the commissioned works by architects, designers, and artists for ten cities across the United States as a means to “navigate the ways in which Blackness, as both a conceptual orientation and a way of being, is embedded in the built environment." A moderated discussion with the curators provides an opportunity to trace the arc of the exhibition from conception to realization, while speculating on possible futures for reconstructions at all scales.
- Art for Justice Fund invests in artists and policy advocates who are ending mass incarceration and the racial bias that drives it. Our community is working to root the nation in restorative justice and shared safety, so families stay together, and people are treated with dignity and compassion. We’re thrilled to come into conversation with Julie Mehretu on how art and artists can end our carceral system – from policing to extreme sentencing. Julie will also unveil a new painting she is graciously donating to support Art for Justice. The multi-faceted event will also feature Art for Justice founder Agnes Gund, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker and others and a performance by Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens.
- Co-sponsored by the AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Committee and is registered with the AIA/CES for continuing professional education.
- This session will highlight the impacts of code enforcement on the health, safety and well-being of renters, tenants and residents across New York state. In the context of rising disinvestment in Black and Brown communities and a history of redlining and displacement, we will talk about how code enforcement agencies are addressing the root causes of unsafe and unhealthy housing conditions, putting equity front and center, and transforming their engagement with residents.
- LiASF invites you to a moderated discussion where the panelists will share their personal stories; their work, community engagement and activism; and what it means to be a Latinx design professional practicing in the US today. The online event is scheduled for Thursday May 27th, at 5:00pm PST and will be moderated by Roy Hernández, founder and publisher of ByDESIGN magazine. We look forward to a lively discussion focused personal journeys, inclusion-based practices and the communities we serve and work with.
- On May 31st, 2021 we will gather in Malcom X park to commemorate the one year anniversary of the police attacks on 52nd St. and I676. Through this gathering we aim to create a space for healing the collective trauma of mass police brutality, engage in dialogue about the historic United Nations intervention into policing in Philadelphia and build resilient communities through art, advocacy and activism that centers community care.
- This is also a PROTEST. Meet us at 52nd and Market at 11:30AM for a march to Malcolm X Park. Signs will be provided. Don't forget to also bring a mat, chair or towel so you can comfortably participate in the rest of the program.
- This event is organized by residents who were directly impacted by the police crackdowns on 52nd St. and I676.
- What Black Is This, You Say? is a public artwork created by artist and architect Amanda Williams for Storefront’s facade. This year-long project translates to the physical realm a body of work initiated by the artist on Instagram. It will be accompanied by a digital program of visual, written, and live content on this website.
- Panelists: Sprinavasa Brown, Tya Winn, Dr. Kellianne Richardson
- Join the Spring 2021 Your Street Your Voice youth cohort as they share their designs for STEAM spaces in the PSU Science Building. Students will share their projects and lead a panel discussion with professionals in the built environment. This virtual event is open to the public, including families and friends.
- Presenters: René Esparza, Derrick Matthews, Curtis Winkle, Melinda Hunt
- This panel discussion explores how these two pandemics are spatialized in the landscape and how neighborhood environments and access to resources can affect health outcomes. Where in our cities are these disparities most seen? How do they shape our landscapes? How as designers can we create spaces that positively contribute and facilitate human health and well-being? We will hear from leading academics and activists and learn what these pandemics mean for communities across the US.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and designers about the process and politics of licensure in the US with Tammy Eagle Bull, FAIA. Tammy Eagle Bull, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, is recognized as the first Native American Woman architect in the US. She is the co-founder of Encompass Architects, p.c. Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and design practitioners who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).*
- Please spread the word, share, and join us for our 3rd National Call! We will discuss the actions we've taken over the past year, the roll out of the Anti-Racist Design Justice Index and campaign, and how YOU can join the movement! Registration Link at bit.ly/dap-national-call-june-2021
- We're pleased to bring together four interviewees from the Black Diasporas project, a digital mapping platform that reclaims the narrative of the Black Diaspora, documenting history, validating beliefs and experiences, recounting stories of joy, coming of age, and discomfort. Join us for an exclusive conversation with Amanda, Christion, Glenn, & Jelani about their lived experience as people from the Black Diaspora living in NYC, hosted by afrOURban and Simba Mafundikwa. www.BlackDiasporas.com
- after more than a year of loudreaders, we're thrilled to celebrate loudreaders planetary on the occasion of @gsapp_aud entangled symposium series on June 10 with sessions by @akawinora @raquelsalasrivera @ilzewolff @leopold_lambert_ @thefunambulistmagazine Luis Othoniel Rosa, Rocio Zambrana, Post-Novis Collective, Eduardo. Rega Calvo, and more! Zoom registration here.
- Join us for a conversation around the significance and practice of reciprocity within design and architecture. This discussion will feature guests Germane Barnes, Justin Garrett Moore, and Joseph Zeal Henry, and will be moderated by Felema Yemaneberhan.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and creative practitioners about how to start your own design publication with LinYee Yuan of MOLD. Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and design practitioners who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).*
- Presenters: Ken Lustbader, Aria Sa'id, Sylvea Hollis, Gail Dubrow
- This panel discussion focuses on LGBTQ+ history(ies), and their preservation and interpretation in order to educate designers, planners and others about current projects and how our field can amplify and uplift LGBTQ+ voices, histories, and practitioners. We will review case studies from across the US, including from New York, San Francisco, and the National Park Service. Attendees will be introduced to LGBTQ+ landscapes and learn the crucial importance of preserving LGBTQ+ spaces and imagining new futures for these culturally significant landscapes.
- In a constantly evolving diverse city like New York, it is crucial that disparities are acknowledged, understood, and addressed. FXOne and Build Out Alliance presents Designing Against Disparities: listing to, engaging with and building for the community where we will be joined by SAGE and BlackSpace to delve into the systemic inequalities that exist within communities of color and the elder LGBTQ community, and the role that architects and designers can play to rethink how our cities are built through better designed community projects and more engaged affordable housing.
- Speakers: Renia Ehrenfeucht, Aimi Hamraie, Jessica Murray, Ariel Ward. Moderator: Claire Weisz
- This panel will present best practices and promising trends to advance goals of multi-modal, safe streets, sidewalks and curbside social spaces through designs that afford equity and dignity.
- Join us for a discussion of the findings in this year's report, and a panel discussion with: Gary Acosta, Clarence Anthony, Chris Herbert, Tracy Jan, Erika Poethig
- Presenters: Jha D Williams, Manisha Kaul, Lily Lim, Mateo Paiva
- Attendees will be introduced to LGBTQ+ memorials and placemaking and learn the role of telling untold LGBTQ+ histories and memorializing culturally significant sites. Our speakers will discuss how we currently memorialize LGBTQ+ history, and ideas for properly remembering and honoring the LGBTQ+ community into the future. Case studies such as the NYC AIDS Memorial, completed in 2016, honoring those lost during the HIV/AIDS crisis will be discussed, as well as other place-based and living memorials.
- BlackSpace’s Juneteenth 2021 celebration Imagining Black Utopias in the Afro-Now will lift up the spirit of community liberation manifested by Juneteenth as an inspiration for infinite Black utopias in the present and future. Over the last year, we’ve tended to our collective’s vision and now we invite you to our ground-breaking moment and welcome you to re-join us in community. For us. By us.
- *Note: This event is for the safety and wellbeing of Black people to ensure Black joy. If you identify as White or non-Black, please be mindful of your presence at this program.
- This is a course offered by MoMA to accompany the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. The course is structured around five themes: Imagination, Care, Knowledge, Refusal, and Liberation. Each week, through original films, audio interviews, and readings, you’ll expand your understanding of architecture as a practice that reaches across time, place, and form. Creative activities and prompts for reflection will encourage you to consider your own role in shaping your communities.
- 235 Northwest Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209 United States
- A collaborative exhibit co-created by Vanport Mosaic and Design As Protest Collective
- A reactivation of vacant storefront windows with memory activism displays that amplify community histories and current calls to action - in collaboration with Vanport Mosaic and Design As Protest collective.
- Designing for social justice puts people and communities first. The beauty of social justice projects is seen in the resulting impact and reflection of the communities they serve. Hear from Nina Briggs, lecturer, Cal Poly Pomona, co-president, L.A. Forum for Architecture & Urban Design; Erin Christensen Ishizaki, partner, Mithun; and Angelita Scott, Ph.D., Allied ASID, director, Community Concept Lead - Standard Development Team, International WELL Building Institute, who have led projects at a variety of scales, from the built environment to the development of curricula, and see how this work can bring about positive mental, physical, and social outcomes for people and communities. Conversely, find out how the design team is impacted by the lessons learned from the people they serve in these projects.
- The AIA|DC Equity Committee by WIELD is pleased to be hosting our first Pride month event. We are honored to celebrate the diverse stories of our speakers and their journeys to success through an afternoon of virtual storytelling and conversation. Like our annual WIELD event, this inclusive storytelling event engages diverse industry leaders sharing their stories of empowerment and resilience through the lens of Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. The stories will highlight how each individual overcame pinch points and career dynamics that hinder career progression while sharing the opportunities that encouraged their growth and success.
- Speakers: Tyler Brewer, Meghan Hottel-Cox, Helen Bronston, Lora Teagarden, A.L. Hu, Gustavo Rodriguez
- Please join us for a panel discussion with the newly formed Equity Council and the launch of its Design Industry Pledge. Equity Council was founded in 2020 to foster engagement and accountability toward meaningful change in the design industry. The Council's mission is to create a more just and equitable design industry by focusing on four key pillars in the workplace: cultures of inclusion, increased racial diversity, education and communication.
- It has been a year since industries made public commitments to anti-racism and we are checking in with BIPOC Directors across industries to hold important conversations about where we are, accountability, and what is and isn’t happening in our 2nd annual conference.
- Architecture Speakers: Chris Leong, Dayton Schroeter, Isabel Castilla, Shin-pei, Tsay. Moderater: Konrad Ng
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students, educators, and design practitioners about how to balance a career as an educator while maintaining a practice with David Fortin.
- Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and creative practitioners who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).*
- Let’s put a red-line through Gentrification and replace it with Community Revitalization; in this episode we will start our discussion by Realizing what it is and Recognizing the signs that point to the Gentrification. We will also do a second session, where we continue this discussion by speaking about the process of Repurposing and Revitalizing our communities to prevent Gentrification.
- Join us for the second annual Where are the Black Designers? conference - a FREE and accessible virtual design conference spanning 2 days, and featuring 30+ voices on topics such as creating spaces and imagining Black futures, Believing In Black Stories, Violent vs. Non-Violent Allyship, and much more. WATBD continues our mission of supporting, amplifying, and making space for the entire spectrum of Black creativity by connecting designers, educators, creative leaders, and allies.
- Featured 2021 Speakers: Cheryl D. Holmes Miller, Maurice Cherry, Raja Schaar, Forest Young, Naj Austin, Timothy Bardlavens, Mac Collins, Aaron Draplin, Omari Souza, and MORE!
- Mario Gooden and Joel Sanders discuss how concepts of queer space have shifted in the twenty-five years since Sanders published his pathbreaking exploration, STUD: Architectures of Masculinity.
- Paul R. Williams design of Los Angeles’s First African Methodist Church is one that emphasized both function (in terms of how the structure was “used” by its congregation) and sanctuary—a holy and sacred space of safety. Built during the era of legal racial segregation and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, how can we better understand the symbolic importance of the concept of sanctuary, here, as a built structure. What’s more, how can we include Los Angeles’s African American communities as extensions of this sense of sanctuary and “structure” as racist land covenants weighed heavily on the city’s African American communities. This talk will explore these subjects, and hopefully, help explain the legal and social strictures that helped form the city we know today.
- Historians of Africa know all too well to distrust the archive, but does this orientation extend to built environments that form a structural, symbolic, and representational knowledge apparatus? Join Ikem Okoye, Itohan Osayimwese, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, and Delia Duong Ba Wendel for a roundtable conversation moderated by Rafico Ruiz, CCA Associate Director, Research.
- As planners of color, many of us were drawn to the field because of a desire to serve our communities. But is true service even possible in our current jobs? Is alignment of purpose, joy and work a reasonable goal? If not, how do we use our skills and knowledge outside of mainstream planning ecosystem? What are the risks of stepping outside the industry? How do I even find what our purpose is and identify what brings us joy? Come and join a virtual discussion with planners who have found their purpose in and outside of the industry. They are planners pursuing radically subversive professions, who have been able to find joy and a sense of purpose in exciting and unexpected ways.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC/ BAME students and design creatives about starting a fashion label with Grace Wales Bonner.
- New, bi-monthly, "Welcome to DJN" meetings: This will be a space for people who want to learn more about DJN, as well as new DJN members, to meet one another, learn about how to plug into the network, learn a little bit more about the history and vision, and ask any questions that they might have. (We will rotate the times of these meetings to suit the needs of the network and multiple time zones!)
- This 2.5-hour interactive webinar will dive deeper into defining white supremacy and how it shows up beyond overt acts of hatred, explore how white supremacy is upheld in the ideologies and practices of “traditional” design thinking, and examine how we might shift design mindsets to more equitable, diverse, and inclusive practice.
- A lecture by Emanuel Admassu, founding partner of AD-WO. He is also a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective and Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP. Admassu will introduce spatial practices that operate against the regime of property in Atlanta, Dar es Salaam, and Addis Ababa.
- The Architectural League will present its 2021 President’s Medal to artist and landscape architect Walter Hood during an in-person celebration on July 21.
- PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE FESTIVITIES, including a procession, performances by The Marching Cobras of New York, saxophonist Jason Marshall, and Mfouambila Kongo, poetry by Tonya M. Foster, remarks by Mario Gooden, Paul Lewis, Mabel Wilson, and Sara Zewde, with graphic design by Michael Bierut and Stephen Smith of Pentagram, all taking place in a production and installation design by Harlem-based architecture studio BRANDT : HAFERD, Jerome W. Haferd and K. Brandt Knapp, with Coleman Downing.
- This event is free and open to all. Attendees will gather at 5:45 p.m. at the Acropolis at Marcus Garvey Park (site of the recently restored Mount Morris Fire Watchtower of 1857) and process together to the lower level of the park at Madison Avenue for the celebration.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and creative practitioners about the process of applying to doctoral programs and the significance of scholarship by and for BIPOC folx with Ana María León.
- Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and creative practitioners who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC/ BAME).*
- CUT|FILL is participatory and collaborative; it is an Open Space unConference and you are invited to speak and share, pose questions or ask for input. We will have a trained open space facilitator to make sure we are properly organized. The agenda will be created live each day by attendees present at the opening of the day. Anyone who wants to host a session that day will announce the topic and choose a space and time. You choose which breakout session to attend.
- Aimi Hamraie and Kelly Fritsch offer “crip technoscience” as a critical project that centers the experiences of disabled people as designers. Too often in architecture, product design, and urban planning, disabled people are treated solely as users, not as makers. This ignores the long history of disabled people’s ways of shaping design, both in a professional capacity and in everyday life. Crip technoscience provides a different analytical framework that also explains why disabled ways of designing are political: they challenge the imperatives to be typical, productive, and functioning, instead inviting strategies based on friction and contestation.
- Soul City is a planned community in North Carolina that was first proposed in 1969 by Floyd McKissick, a civil rights leader and director of the Congress of Racial Equality. Soul City was one of thirteen model city projects under the Urban Growth and New Community Development Act. The city was intended to be a community built and open to all races, but placed emphasis on providing opportunities for minorities and the poor. This event includes a 30 min film screening of Soul City followed by a panel discussion.
- Facilitator: Danielle Purifoy. Speakers: Floyd McKissick Jr., Kofi Boone.
- Princeville, NC is the first town incorporated by freed, enslaved Africans in America located in North Carolina. Before its incorporation, residents called it ‘Freedom Hill,’ gradually establishing a self-sufficient, all Black town. The historical town has been inundated with flooding over the centuries. The session will highlight the community of Princeville including the premiere trailer of the upcoming documentary short Freedom Hill. The session will also be followed by a panelist Q+A and the opportunity for participants to break out into “deep dive” discussions on community preservation as a means to protect and strengthen culture.
- Facilitator: Cierra Hinton. Speakers: Kofi Boone, Resita Cox, Savonola "Savi" Horne, Marquetta Dickens aka "Q."
- Intended for those in the beginning stages of learning Equity-Centered Community Design, this 2-hour live webinar will introduce each piece of the ECCD framework + our Redesigners for Justice movement, promoting a sustainable mindset shift rather than striving for process adoption. Opportunities for Q&A will be integrated.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and design practitioners about the process of community organizing for design justice with Bryan C. Lee Jr.
- Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, we are honoured to host the annual Alero Olympio Memorial Lecture. A brilliant and talented visionary who was ahead of her time, Alero Olympio was an architect, activist and highly original thinker who split her time between Scotland and Ghana. This year’s lecture will be delivered by acclaimed Nigerien architect, Mariam Kamara.
- Justin Garrett Moore will be sharing a variety of recent work from his involvement and leadership with Urban Patch, Dark Matter University, BlackSpace and other groups, sharing his approach to working across different modes of practice crossing public service, education, social enterprise, and collectives, exploring the various types of work and agency that enable design justice practice. The presentation will be followed by discussion prompts and an interactive exercise that will invite attendees to share and explore the types of work they would like to do in the coming year, helping to build new connections and coalitions amongst participants.
- This 2-hour session is for registrants who identify as white and/or benefit from white privilege and will provide a space to explore what it means to move through the world with whiteness (especially as it relates to engaging in equity work), challenge ourselves to identify how racism and white supremacy are showing up in our own behavior, and determine a path forward toward anti-racist practice and effective work as a Design Ally*. Interactive activities and small group discussions will occur throughout the learning engagement to promote growth of shared knowledge, resources, and opportunities.
- *Racially caucused discussions such as this serve as a supplement to - not a replacement for - cross-racial dialogues. To learn more on the importance of white spaces for anti-racist work, we suggest viewing this document written by AWARE-LA to describe their reasons for gathering as a white anti-racist community.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC architects and designers about learning how to create a PR framework and strategy to communicate who you are and what you do with Jenny Nguyen of Hello Human.
- Tatiana Bilbao will speak about what she believes we as architects should be questioning about our domestic spaces and how that can transform the city. Tatiana Bilbao began her eponymous studio in 2004 with the aim of integrating social values, collaboration and sensitive design approaches to architectural work. Prior to founding her firm, Bilbao was an Advisor in the Ministry of Development and Housing of the Government of the Federal District of Mexico City, during this period she was part of the General Development Directorate of the Advisory Council for Urban Development in the City.
- Prescott Reavis (Kulima) and Fernando Martí (Council of Community Housing Organizations) describe their architectural practices embedded in and accountable to communities. Their work ranges from the co-production of liberatory spaces from East Oakland to Detroit, to youth arts practices and planning demands in SF’s Mission District, that have shaped community-owned and controlled spaces and housing.
- Join the TORCH Mentorship Program as they spotlight the changemakers reshaping the profession and leading conversations around diversity, equity, and justice at both the grassroots and institutional levels. A panel of distinguished leaders will speak to the initiatives they are spearheading on EDI, education, and ethics, highlighting the many ways emerging and experienced designers can effect change throughout the field. The event will introduce attendees to initiatives and groups including the Emerging Professional Justice Group, the JEDI Design Network, Dark Matter University, AIA’s new resolutions on the Code of Ethics, and more.
- Olalekan Jeyifous received a BArch from Cornell University and is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited at venues such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, the MoMA, the Vitra Design Museum and the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain.
- The Black Atlantic imaginary is restless and fluid, historically unsettled and unsettling, always looking above and beyond the present, which has historically been a space of suppression and stasis. In this series of talks in our inaugural year, the AFI invites six artists/architects whose work can be seen in light of this imaginative, shared space that is simultaneously ‘here’, ‘there’ and ‘everywhere.’
- Sanford Biggers’ work is an interplay of narrative, perspective, and history that speaks to current social, political, and economic happenings while also examining the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often-overlooked cultural and political narratives from American history.
- New, bi-monthly, "Welcome to DJN" meetings: This will be a space for people who want to learn more about DJN, as well as new DJN members, to meet one another, learn about how to plug into the network, learn a little bit more about the history and vision, and ask any questions that they might have. (We will rotate the times of these meetings to suit the needs of the network and multiple time zones!)
- DCo’s latest Zoom LIVE Panel Discussion, “Feeding the Block”, will explore how communities can collectively leverage urban farming to support the health, welfare and access to healthy food.
- Panelists: Mark Covington, Georgia Street Community Collective (Detroit); Jamiah Hargins, Crop Swap LA (Los Angeles); Marcus Henderson, Black Star Farmers (Seattle).
- NOMA President Jason Pugh (‘06 MSAUD) and President-Elect Pascale Sablan (’07 MSAAD) present on their work and activism as designers and are joined in conversation by immediate past President Kimberly Dowdell to discuss what is next for NOMA upon their 50th Anniversary as an organization and what it has meant for them to ‘lift as they rise’ in their careers focusing energy on the development of the next generation of designers.
- Come together with the 2019-2021 Enterprise Rose Fellows for through connection and story. In the spirit of John O’Neal and Free Southern Theater’s story circles, the outgoing Rose Fellow class will share stories about community, care, and the future we imagine. We will reflect upon the lessons of COVID, summer 2020 uprisings, and micro community work and how those lessons might help us create the blueprint for a more just and equitable future. ***This is session is warmly open to the public including friends, colleagues and partners ***
- A lecture by Charles L. Davis II with a response by Professor Reinhold Martin, Director of the History and Theory Sequence in the M.Arch program at Columbia GSAPP.
- Presented by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
- As part of Cooper Union x Climate Week 2021, architecture educators Billy Fleming and Doris Sung will be combining their experiences to talk about ways of reconstructing architectural education and Architecture Studios around climate policy and the Green New Deal. This conversation will be moderated by architect and Cooper Professor Austin Wade Smith.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and design creatives about how to craft a strong application for admission to architecture schools with Ann Lui and Jennifer Newsom.
- Please note this participatory event is strictly intended for students and creative practitioners who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC/ BAME).*
- Intersections of Justice will highlight work that reflects the need to collaborate across systems, to connect the dots between disciplines, and think differently about how we practice design. A variety of conference sessions will offer projects, ideas, and conversations that explore intersectional justice through design practice. Speakers will share work that puts radical politics into practice, work that actively disrupts systems of oppression, and work that demonstrates how design can be used as a tool to work towards collective liberation.
- The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) wants to introduce students to the exciting world of landscape architecture with its first-ever PreK-12 Summit for students. The two-day virtual Summit, entitled DREAM BIG with Design, is the perfect kick-off event for the 2021-2022 school year. Scheduled for Thursday, September 23 and Friday, September 24, DREAM BIG with Design will showcase landscape architecture and hands-on PreK-12 learning sessions for students through a dynamic forum among PreK-12 educators and ASLA members from across the country.
- This roundtable conversation brings together diverse voices—the student, the educator, the firm partner, and the emerging professional—to discuss the education of the architect. Participants will discuss how the traditional educational model advances some ideas and people over others. They will also explore different approaches towards change in architecture school curricula and professional settings, from strategies for incremental change to more radical approaches. From unpacking the impact that existing structures have (how different people thrive, survive, or exit) to what alternative radical structures offer (“my grade is based on my participation not a critique!”), the program aims to discuss new models of education and practice that are reflective of diversity in the profession and design justice in the built environment.
- A lecture by Wanda Dalla Costa with a response by Lola Ben-Alon, Assistant Professor and Director of the Building Science and Technology Sequence of the Master of Architecture program at Columbia GSAPP.
- This talk is a provisional exploration of the implications of the insights from ontological and pluriversal designing to urban spaces. It outlines the notion of re-earthing cities from the perspective of the multiplicity of others, human and not, that inhabit them, through strategies for the recommunalization, relocalization, and decolonization of urban social life. The talk will be accompanied by visuals directed by WAI Think Tank and followed by a public discussion moderated by Nora Akawi.
- As part of The Mellon Foundation’s unprecedented new Monuments Project, Philadelphia-based nonprofit art and history studio Monument Lab undertook a comprehensive audit of our country’s commemorative landscape, scouring almost half a million records of historic properties to better understand the dynamics and trends that have shaped our nation’s monuments. Join Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Dr. Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab, for a discussion that will dive into Monument Lab’s findings and explore what they mean for the future of our commemorative landscape.
- A lecture by Mariam Kamara founder of atelier masōmī with response by Mario Gooden, Associate Professor and Director of Advanced Architectural Studios in M.Arch program at Columbia GSAPP.
- Join Monument Lab for a roundtable with educators from around the country to discuss ways of teaching and engaging the National Monument Audit. The panelists will discuss the ways classrooms – especially K-12 classrooms, college courses, and arts and cultural spaces – can participate in extending the learnings from the audit. The roundtable will be led by Monument Lab’s Associate Director of Public Engagement Patricia Eunji Kim, and features panelists educator Dr. Cierra Kaler-Jones, Rabiya Kassam-Clay, and Ah-young Kim. Discussion with Q&A to follow. Registration required.
- Join Urban Design Forum, The Architectural League of New York, and the League’s digital publication, Urban Omnibus, for a discussion on the role of public knowledge in citymaking.
- Shannon Mattern leads a conversation about the role of community design, civic data, libraries, and maintenance in a time of emerging "urban intelligence." Mattern will provide an introduction to A City Is Not a Computer, followed by a discussion with Karen Fairbanks, Farzana Gandhi, Shawn Rickenbacker, and Dan Taeyoung.
- As talk of landback and reparations increase, more people have taken action to reclaim space, money, and their livelihoods. To speak about what reparations and a reclamation of land can mean, we gather Robin Rue Simmons, Kofi Boone, and Aust Neferka. We’ll discuss what actions, from legislation to the personal, can dismantle and defund oppressive systems while reclaiming and returning agency to historically disenfranchised people. Zoom Registration here.
- Felon: An America Washi Tale is about re-imagining paper. A solo performance that begins with the pages of a book being slid into a cell, traverses stoves made of toilet paper, kites from a father, handwritten affidavits, legal complaints, handmade paper, certificates of pardon, & a 1,000 squares fashioned from the clothing of men serving life sentences, the variety of papers that reveals what is possible and burdened by prison.
- We are at a critical point locally and globally with climate change, it’s time to highlight how we can all do our part. This event will review the social justice commitments that were made last year amid the re-ignition of Black Lives Matter and climate change and turn them into actionable plans that we can all start today. Join us for panel discussions with experts within the climate justice ecosystem and to collaborate with other community members and organizations on actionable plans for the year ahead.
- The Black in Design Conference, organized by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design African American Student Union (GSD AASU) recognizes the contributions of the African diaspora to the design fields and promotes discourse around the agency of the design profession to address and dismantle the institutional barriers faced by our communities.
- Black Matter celebrates the cultivation of Black space and creativity from the magical to the mundane. The conference aims to lift up the Black spatial practices and experiences that operate below the surface of design theory and practice, bringing nuance to the trope of Black excellence and acknowledging the urgent political, spatial, and ecological crises facing Black communities across the diaspora.
- "At the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor" uses place-based historical scholarship and cultural analysis to explore two seemingly unrelated but deeply intertwined events in a building at the intersection of Turk and Taylor Streets in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. That building was the site, in 1966, of a historically significant act of mass resistance to police oppression on the part of trans women, sex workers, and unhoused youth--an event now remembered as the Compton's Cafeteria Riot.
- Alongside the RFP selection process, the Design Trust is organizing a series of virtual conversations that pair designers and planners with health professionals. These conversations will explore the intersection of health equity and public space. The third talk in our series is a conversation with Dr. Uché Blackstock and Sloan Leo. They will discuss how our public realm influences public health.
- Join four Latinx emerging professionals as they share their path from college to present. The panelists will discuss the different career paths they've taken, their leadership involvement in ASLA, and how their culture influences their work. This session will inspire students, emerging professionals, and more to remember their roots, follow their dreams, and find their place in the future of landscape architecture.
- Panelists: Magdalena Aravena, Siembra Robert Colón, Carlos Flores, Nathania Martinez
- Mpho Matsipa is a design educator, researcher and curator based at WiSER, at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is the founder and curator of African Mobilities, an itinerant multi-media, multi-year, and curatorial and experimental research and teaching platform, podcast series and pan-African network for African designers, artists, and urban theorists.
- Join the New York Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (nycoba | NOMA), the J. Max Bond Center of City University of New York, and the AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the annual J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture. Established in 2010, this design talk honors the memory of J. Max Bond, Jr., FAIA, NOMA, an architect, partner at Davis Brody Bond, advocate, teacher, and trailblazer of his time. The lecture addresses issues that were important to Bond: equity, inclusive design, communities, and global cultures, in particular Africa (Ghana).
- This lecture will focus on the maps, tools, and media produced by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project—a data visualization, digital cartography, and multimedia collective that produces an array of work to support ongoing housing justice organizing in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Los Angeles. Attention will be placed upon the tech gentrification contexts in which the AEMP emerged, how the volunteer-based collective functions, its prioritization of local and regional partnerships, and how it navigates complex tensions around using data and digital technologies to help organize against property technologies of racial dispossession.
- A conversation among community leaders on the progress of The Brownsville Plan and working together to revitalize the neighborhood with and for longstanding residents. Including Genese Morgan, Brooklyn Community Board 16 Chairperson; Taurean C. Lewis, Community Engagement Specialist, Brownsville Partnership Inc. and additional guests in a conversation moderated by Ifeoma Ebo, Blackspace Urbanist Collective and Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia GSAPP.
- The workshop "Call for a Manifesto for the Just City" is a digital lecture and debate series composed of four sessions sponsored by TU Delft, IHS Erasmus, the University of Illinois, the Winston-Salem University and other partners, leading to the writing of Manifestos for the Just City by teams of students. This activity is open to Bachelor and Master’s students from any university, in any area of studies related to the built environment.
- We live in richly diverse societies, yet this diversity is not often reflected in products, services and systems offered. Through inclusive design and research, we can identify and prioritise those who are currently being left out or face the most barriers in our problem space.
- Equity Talks: The Latino Perspective is the third public conversation in this Collaborative series. Join Philadelphia's Hispanic community leaders, organizers, and scholars as they discuss the impact of design and development on their various communities . Hear how their communities' interests, challenges, and culture impact Philadelphia's evolution.
- Panel, Moderated by Harry Tapia, Director of Operations, HACE, includes: Jennifer Rodriguez, Damaris Feliciano, Amanda Garayua, Erick Martinez
- Jade Kake (Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa, Te Whakatōhea) leads a small team at Matakohe Architecture + Urbanism, a kaupapa Māori design studio based in Whangārei in the Te Tai Tokerau region of Aotearoa New Zealand. The architectural department of the studio is focused on working primarily with Māori community clients on their papakāinga, marae, commercial and community projects, whilst the pūrākau (culture narrative) integration strand focuses on working to facilitate meaningful hapū participation in the design of major civic, commercial and education projects within their rohe.
- In so many respects, 2021 is not your average year. The challenges of a global pandemic have coincided with the celebration of 50 years of NOMA. This has meant that the interactive, volunteer effort needed to be as special as its circumstances. With that in mind, Noir Design Parti ( https://noirdesignparti.com ), the brain child of active NOMA members Saundra Little and Karen Burton has partnered with Detroit’s own Charles H. Wright Museum ( https://theWright.org ) and the online consulting talents of Wiki Strategies on an ambitious pilot program to showcase more Black architects in the digital realm.
- J.T. Roane is assistant professor of African and African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University and he is a 2008 graduate of the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. He currently serves as the lead of the Black Ecologies Initiative at ASU’s Institute for Humanities Research. He is the former co-senior editor of Black Perspectives, the digital platform of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS).
- This lecture explores climate responsive design by integrating indigenous knowledge from communities, while attempting to facilitate the emancipatory intentions of the action (design) research in architectural practice. Through enabling marginalised local voices by emphasising collective engagement, and improvising community participatory and adaptive architectural responses to social and ecological entanglement, architectural practice start to address the issues faced by these disadvantaged communities.
- Lecture by Carlos Mínguez Carrasco ‘12 MSCCCP, Chief Curator at ArkDes. Kiruna – a city in the northernmost part of Sweden – is experiencing one of the biggest urban transformation projects in recent history. The city is being relocated by three kilometers due to the expansion of the mine around which Kiruna was built. A third of the population must relocate, housing blocks and landmark buildings are being demolished or moved, and a new city is taking shape. But how do you move a city?
- Rice Architecture Visiting Critic Liz Gálvez and Rice Architecture student Estefanía Barajas, winners of the Rice Design Alliance Houston Design Research Grant 2021, will present their work at 12:00 p.m. via Zoom as part of the 2021-2022 Rice Architecture Lecture Series, Building Identities, Fall Edition.
- Celebrate NOMA’s 50th anniversary! Leading practitioners, thoughtful activists, thriving entrepreneurs, prolific planners, creative contractors, daring developers and a plethora of other speakers have all decided to come together virtually to make this the best NOMA conference on record. October 20 – 23, 2021 will have 101 different ways to expand your knowledge, your career and your peace of mind.
- In Texas’ freedom colonies — African American settlements founded 1866-1930 — descendants of community founders engage in heritage conservation by keeping folklife, sacred rituals, and other cultural expressions that sustain communities’ Black sense of place. However, rural, vernacular African American placekeeping strategies are rarely framed in planning and architectural history as transgressive or expressions of Black liberation. Presenting an excerpt from her forthcoming book, Never Sell the Land, Dr. Roberts shares case studies in which descendants of Deep East Texas freedom colony founders leverage heritage conservation to revitalize community cores.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and built environment practitioners about how BIPOC architects, planners, and urban designers can intervene in the public sector to create impactful change.
- This lecture will address a series of research and design projects that are grappling with the colonial implications of architecture and urban design. Questions of sovereignty and legibility provide portals to think with the Black quotidian—spatial practices of refusal and transmutation—producing temporal moments of liberation and communality within the built environment. From the Two Markets research project to the latest installation for the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art titled Immeasurability; the aim is to produce a set of interventions and provocations that challenge architecture inherent commitment to borderization.
- Join Urban Consulate and Building Community Value to hear how artists are developing a new hub for Black culture & innovation in Memphis.
- Join Urban Consulate host Orlando P. Bailey at The Cochrane House in Detroit for a candid conversation with co-developer and music producer James Dukes (aka IMAKEMADBEATS), CEO of Unapologetic.
- Experts will share their views on the most critical issues plaguing our cities and the impact on minority residents. These same panelists will also offer innovative ideas around planning for improved urban centers. Welcome remarks by Mayor Ras J. Baraka.
- Speakers: Ifeoma Ebo, Erin Barnes, Bryan C. Lee, Jr., Michael Neal
- Join us for a virtual event to celebrate and reflect on a year of exploration, innovation, and collaboration by the 3,000 participating designers and students. The Green New Deal Superstudio was a concerted effort to give form to policy ideas by translating the core goals of decarbonization, justice, and jobs into place-specific design and planning projects. Some 670 projects were submitted through the year-long open call, which attracted the participation of over 90 universities, as well as hundreds of practitioners from across the design disciplines.
- Diana Martinez is Assistant Professor and Director of Architectural Studies in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University, where she holds a secondary appointment in the Department for the Study of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. She is completing a book manuscript, “Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Infrastructure, Urbanism and the American Colonial Project in the Philippines.”
- Please join us for Abolishing property as architectural care, the second of five conversations on the theme of attention, with speakers Rinaldo Walcott, Professor, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, and Thandi Loewenson, Royal College of Art. Their short presentations will be followed by a discussion moderated by Ella den Elzen, University of Waterloo.
- This Land Education Design Incubator is intended for organizations that are:
- Indigenous-led and that support or serve Indigenous communities
- Working to support Residential School Survivors, Sixties Scoop Survivors, and their families/would aspire to be working with Survivors.
- Wanting to offer or explore the possibility of offering land-based programming
- What do urban landscapes teach us about Latinx belonging in the U.S.? Join us in thinking through this question and more with Dr. Johana Londoño, author of Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in US Cities. Dr. Londoño will be in conversation with Dr. George Sánchez (USC History and American Studies & Ethnicity) and guests regarding her latest work.
- Call Me If You Get Lost explores the domestic realm through the front porch. Featuring projects in Miami, FL, the location of Studio Barnes, this lecture highlights themes such as celebration, ritual, family, and love through Black spatial occupation of the front porch. Tangent to the lecture is a film, You Can Always Come Home that furthers the investigation and liberation Blackness in the architected environment. Inspired by the 2021 Architectural League Prize Housekeeping, which challenged participants to acknowledge systemic oppression in labor, gender and race, this film aims to dispel common tropes of trauma, pain and discrimination while promoting joy, delight and self-care.
- In this fifth and final year of Hindsight,™ merging with the APA New York Metro Chapter Annual Conference, let us create space to re-imagine what an equitable future truly for us and by us looks like, to guide our re-emergence. The two day, virtual event will take place from November 4-5, 2021. Hindsight will focus on diversity and social equity not solely as a topic at a conference, but as a lens through which all planning and community development should be implemented.
- This forum brings together scholars whose research investigates the relationship between the African diaspora, Afro-descendants, and the built environment of North America and the Caribbean from a variety of lenses that are specific to the scholars’ fields of inquiry.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and design creatives about becoming an architecture and design curator with Carson Chan.
- WAI Architecture Think Tank is a planetary studio practicing by questioning the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism.
- Join us for a virtual conversation as we critically consider the preservation professional’s role in the creation of a more inclusive approach to historic materials research and in discussions about what is valued. Our panelists bring a variety of perspectives to this discussion about issues of exclusion in historic materials research and the challenges of doing ethical research.
- Moderators: Tonia Sing Chi and Anna Gasha
- Panelists: Hannah Bennett, Sreya Chakraborty, and Tara Dudley
- A lecture by Suzi Hall, Huda Tayob, and Thandi Loewenson with a response by Emanuel Admassu, Assistant Professor and leader of the Fall Urban Design Studio at Columbia GSAPP.
- Race, Space & Architecture is an open-access curriculum shared of many voices which engages with three questions: What are the spatial contours of capitalism that produce racial hierarchy and injustice? What are the inventive repertoires of refusal, resistance, and re-making that are neither reduced to nor exhausted by racial capitalism and how are they specialized? How is ‘race’ configured differently across space, and how can a more expansive understanding of entangled world space broaden our imagination for teaching and learning?
- Dori Tunstall, PhD, is dean of the faculty of design at Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, Canada and the first Black person—and first Black woman—to be dean of a faculty of design anywhere in the world. Dr. Tunstall has been featured in such publications as Fast Company, Deem, and Azure, and will join CCAD as part of the college's Visiting Artists & Scholars series via Zoom to discuss her mission to redesign design education in an effort to decouple the practice from colonialism and create design with respect.
- Join us for an introduction to the nuts and bolts of returning land to Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, with insight from the Land Trust and practitioners in the field.
- Panelists: Inés Ixierda, Alma Soongi Beck, Cassandra Ferrera, Ellen Fred, Maija West, Alejandra Cruz, Yeji Jung
- This free online talk by architectural historian Charles Davis considers the controversies surrounding MoMA’s use of its Philip Johnson Galleries for the museum’s recent exhibition “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.” Philip Johnson’s position as founding curator of architecture at MoMA is well known, but his interest in fascist politics and his role in constructing a Eurocentric understanding of modern architecture has only recently come under public scrutiny. What are the long-term consequences of these biases in Johnson’s work, and what is the best way of grappling with this difficult history? This talk prepares the way for a broader discussion on how to foster an anti-racist culture in architectural discourse.
- The University of Miami School of Architecture and Tecnoglass present a lecture by Chris Cornelius of studio:indigenous, part of the U-SoA 2021/22 Tecnoglass Lecture Series. Available in-person in the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center, Glasgow Hall and online via Zoom at https://miami.zoom.us/j/93427679019.
- Darell Fields is a distinguished designer and scholar in the field of race and architecture. He received his Master of Architecture from Harvard GSD and Ph.D. from Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He practices and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Water is overwhelming life in coastal and riverine cities across many parts of the world. We are responding in multiple ways: by fortifying the coasts, draining and pushing water out of lands, and sometimes making room for river in our constant struggle to remain dry. Each of these responses are situated in deep colonial history. Taking the example of the growth and settlement of Calcutta in the swamps of Bengal, this talk will explore how we came to inhabit land-making and land-reclamation as urbanization through the nineteenth century.
- Join us for an open discussion and interactive Q&A for BIPOC students and design creatives about architecture’s role in ending mass incarceration.
- Apply by Sunday, November 7, 5pm MT *LINK IN BIO* 12 spaces available.
- This month, we are launching our "Climate Preparedness and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Workshops and Trainings" with an Intro to Adobe Architecture & Mud Plastering with Joanna Keane Lopez @jokeanelopez and Helen Levine. This free workshop is meant to create access to adobe making skills for Indigenous, Black and People of Color so that we can be building low impact structures that can help us survive the climate crisis. The workshop takes place on the weekend of November 27 & 28, 12-4:30pm in the North Valley of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- New, bi-monthly, "Welcome to DJN" meetings: This will be a space for people who want to learn more about DJN, as well as new DJN members, to meet one another, learn about how to plug into the network, learn a little bit more about the history and vision, and ask any questions that they might have. (We will rotate the times of these meetings to suit the needs of the network and multiple time zones!)
- Ibrahim Mahama was born in Tamale, Ghana in 1987, where he currently lives and works. Mahama obtained an MFA in Painting and Sculpture in 2013 and a BFA in Painting in 2010 at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
- The second program of the AIANY Civic Leadership Program (CLP), “Intent to Impact: Approaches to Community-Based Design,” will bring together voices from Greater Good Studio, Open Architecture Collaborative, OLIN Labs, MIXdesign, and BlackSpace to highlight innovative approaches to community-based and inclusive design to explore how we can create practices rooted in equity and leverage community engagement as an integral design tool.
- Panelists: George Aye, Seb Choe, Michael Miller, Shalini Agrawal, Peter Robinson
- Panelists: Kiki Cooper, A.L. Hu, Mary Margaret Zindren, Dayton Schroeter
- This year we will continue the next chapter with The JE:DI. Agenda in Action with an augmented series of panels and workshops that will build on the outcomes of last year’s critical discourse and frameworks. We will begin with a summary of what we learned in 2020 and build upon it with today’s evolving challenges with an overview of JE:DI frameworks for solving these challenges proposed to date across multiple organizations.
- Speakers: WAI Think Tank (Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski), The Funambulist (Léopold Lambert)
- What are possibilities of emancipatory practices? For new narratives to emerge we need to unmake what we know, to look for radical approaches and practices that allows us to understand our responsibility, to create a counter storytelling and nurturing radical hope.
- This Indigenous Heritage Month, the AIAS J.E.D.I. Taskforce will host its second webinar to highlight the importance of Indigenous architecture, which refers to the study and practice of architecture for and by Indigenous people. Indigenous people have a built tradition or aspire to translate or have their cultures translated in the built environment. In highlighting indigenous architecture, we also intend to discuss settler colonialism and how architects can start to consider the implications of decolonization when designing structures on unceded land.
- Every solution you’ll hear about during this series of six presentations works to counter systemic racism.
- Moderator: Kelly Regan. Speakers: Jessica Pryce, María A. Villalobos H., Satana Deberry, Erin Breen, Rachel Garland, Aisha Nyandoro
- First Black Planner Collective call of 2022! Zoom details in IG post.
- We are thrilled to announce Deem’s third Forum, which will elaborate on several key topics that emerged throughout the pages of Issue 03, “Envisioning Equity.” The Forum will take place as three live virtual conversations, each addressing a distinct theme—interdependence, neurodiversity, and motherhood—and engaging Issue 03 contributors alongside a few special guests.
- Three urban planners, activists, and architects working toward racial and economic justice will interrogate questions such as, can policy ever care for individuals in the way that mutual aid can? What are specific barriers to community-organized efforts? How can designers learn from principles of mutual aid and pursue equity alongside our own communities?
- Panelists: Brittanie Redd, Principal Planner of Land Use Strategy for the City of Indianapolis Kayla Gore, co-founder and executive director of My Sistah's House, Memphis Imani Day, Founder + Principal at RVSN Studios, Detroit
- Student Moderator: Fareeha Khan, M.Arch ’24
- ROOTED: Design Justice in Agricultural Contexts is the first evening program of ASCENT: Elevating Southern Perspectives on Design Justice, an exhibit and event series created by NOMA Louisiana, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette School of Architecture + Design and the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane University.
- Speakers: Prof. Kiwana McClung, Angie and June Provost, Pamela Bloom, Prof. Chris Daemmrich
- Session Two will examine the concept of neurodiversity and its implications in shaping the conditions for equity. This discussion will feature guests Jezz Chung and Jen White-Johnson, and will be moderated by Dr. Yewande Pearse.
- Session Three will explore multiple perspectives around how design can help create more equitable life outcomes for mothers. This discussion will feature guests LinYee Yuan, Gabriella Nelson, and Zoë Greggs, and will be moderated by Marcel Rosa-Salas.
- In Conversation with Black Students in Design: Building Black Spaces brings together leading scholars Rashad Shabazz, Dr. Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, and Rinaldo Walcott to discuss the role of architecture in the spatialization of Black spaces, the history and contributors to these spaces and how we can all participate and advocate for the improvements of these spaces.
- Secretary Marcia L. Fudge is the 18th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Throughout her career, Secretary Fudge has worked to help low-income families, seniors, and communities across the country. She served as U.S. Representative for the 11th Congressional District of Ohio from 2008-21, and was a member of several Congressional Caucuses and past Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
- The Spring 2022 Sciame Lecture series, themed Radical Black Space, brings together architects, preservationists, planners, artists, and historians of color at a precipitous moment.
- Amber N. Wiley is an assistant professor of art history at Rutgers University. Her research interests center on the social aspects of design and how it affects urban communities—architecture as a literal and figural structure of power. She focuses on the ways local and national bodies have made the claim for the dominating narrative and collective memory of cities and examines how preservation and public history contribute to the creation and maintenance of the identity and sense of place of a city.
- Join us on Friday, February 11 at 3pm HST when we talk to Dr. Kyle Mays about his newest book, "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States" (2021). Come learn about this book project and how uncovering the intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in the US can reframe contemporary debates and re-imagine the powerful possibilities of Afro-Indigenous solidarity.
- Register for the Zoom link: bit.ly/AfroIndigenousHistory
- Founded by Ilze Wolff and Heinrich Wolff in 2012, Wolff Architects has aimed to cultivate, in its own words, “an enduring public culture around the city, space, and personhood.” Informed by the colonial history of its surroundings, the Cape Town-based firm excavates sites of historic inequity and erasure, using design, research, and advocacy tools to construct what it calls an “architecture of consequence.”
- Speakers: Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, Teddy Cruz, Fonna Forman, Natalie Diaz
- From community centers in low-income neighborhoods in San Diego and Tijuana to new spaces for Indigenous storytelling in the borderlands of Arizona, humanities scholars, students, and artists today are drawing inspiration from the US-Mexico borderlands region as the complex, creative, and collaborative region that it has long been. Though frequently cast as a place of crisis and separation, the border region fuels deep resilience and vibrant new thinking about cross-cultural community engagement, environmental justice, higher learning, and artistic interpretations of our shared human experience.
- It has long been time to address care in our communities. Not Radical, for it is practical and a step towards liberation. Not as a red pill or a problem to be solved, for it is about the approach. Not in one sector, as it is wide reaching and intersectional. Not as a buzzword, but as a foundation. Care can be represented in many levels of transience and scales, so we are curating a space for speakers to bring their perspectives on how we can embrace a mindset of care in everything we do. Through the lens of care as play, protest, and all in between, join us in reimagining a world built and designed with black care in mind.
- A 2020 Bradford Grant Medal winner in Landscape Architecture and 2017 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum National Design Award winner, architect, artist, academic, and activist, Dr. Craig L. Wilkins’ creative practice specializes in engaging communities in collaborative and participatory design processes.
- "Aquí Estamos", meaning "We are Here", will center the voices of Afro-Latinx to discuss the intersectionality between two cultures and their lived experiences among two cultures. 'Representation matters' is a phrase commonly used, but what if it still leaves some people out?
- Panelists: Carmen Suero, Ricardo de Jesús Maga Rojas, Vanessa Smith-Torres, Omar Mora. Moderator: Catherine Hernandez
- Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled Radical Black Space. "Difference and Design" will feature Justin Garrett Moore.
- BlackLAN is thrilled to invite you to join us for our 2nd Annual Black History Month Symposium. This year's symposium theme Capturing Landscape Legacy invites us all to question how we capture landscapes and narratives that are tied to our known/unknown histories, everyday happenings, and envisioned futures. Moderated by Mel Gross. Panelists: Jamil Fatti, Abra Lee, Mercedes Ward.
- Lesley Lokko is a Ghanaian-Scottish architectural academic, educator and bestselling novelist. She is the founder and director of the African Futures Institute established in 2020 in Accra, Ghana, as a postgraduate school of architecture and public events platform.
- Wiley’s talk will focus on the research she is currently conducting as an Mellon Urban Landscape Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, as well as the National Historic Landmark nomination update she completed for the Carter G. Woodson National Historic Site. She examines the legacy and impact of the Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation (ABC), illustrating how the ABC set the precedent for a more nuanced understanding of the American past by expanding the National Park Service’s inclusion of Black historic landmarks twentyfold, including the Woodson site.
- The Anti-Racism Collective presents a panel “Identity, Space, and Power” with Rekha Auguste-Nelson, co-founder, riffstudio; Nathan Friedman, co-founder, Departamento del Distrito, and Wortham Fellow at Rice Architecture; and Ghazal Jafari, founding director, OPEN SYSTEMS, and assistant professor of Landscape Architecture at University of Virginia, and at 12:00 p.m. via Zoom as part of the Anti-Racism Collective Lecture Series.
- These questions for Fela are dedicated to him, or to his memory. They seek to be in or to be infused by his spirit. They are questions for him that he teaches us to ask, and to ask him, not in search of answers but of the questions’ continual deepening; not as action’s deferral but as practice’s exacerbation.
- Join us for our latest symposium, [Un]commoning Architectural Language, that convenes a panel of interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners to discuss ways in which cultural movements like Afrofuturism and Afrosurrealism can reveal new languages of spatial imagination to tackle questions of representation, appropriation, intersectionality and authenticity within an aesthetics of spatial (in)justice. Featuring Lonny Brooks, Nyame Brown, Bz (Brenda) Zhang, and Ife Salema Vanable. Co-presented with the Museum of African Diaspora (MOAD).
- This year, AIFF and SCI-Arc have partnered to host a discussion led by educators and industry leaders about DEI challenges, progress, and breakthroughs in the field. The roundtable will be followed by a Q and A.
- Host: Zahida Sherman. Moderator: Ama Cobbina. Panelists: David Isern, Nicholas Negrete, Edson Cabalfin, Daniel Horowitz.
- Hear from Design Futures' current leader, Theresa Hyuna Hwang, and board member and co-founder, Sarah Wu. They'll share about Design Futures current mission and programming, and answer questions about the organization and the application process.
- Design Futures Executive Leadership application here.
- Presentations by Suzi Hall, Huda Tayob, and Thandi Loewenson with a response by Emanuel Admassu, Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP.
- This lecture is part of the 2022 Spring Sciame Lecture Series, themed “Radical Black Space.”
- All lectures will be presented via Zoom and held on Thursdays at 6pm NYC time.
- Lecture by Shawn Rickenbacker, introduction by Suzanne Lettieri
- Held virtually and in person
- As an Indigenous architect with over 25 years of design, comprehensive planning, and cultural visioning experience, Sam Olbekson, MAUD ’05, serves tribal communities and Indigenous organizations by bringing a Native perspective to the design and planning process.
- This lecture is part of the 2022 Spring Sciame Lecture Series, themed “Radical Black Space.”
- All lectures will be presented via Zoom and held on Thursdays at 6pm NYC time.
- Azra Akšamija is the founding director of MIT Future Heritage Lab, an art, education, and preservation lab based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Akšamija’s work explores “[the] destruction of cultural infrastructures within the context of conflict, migration, and forced displacement,” according to her website.
- sekou cooke STUDIO is an architecture and urban design practice founded by Sekou Cooke in 2008. In its own words, the studio is “centered on the exploration of Hip-Hop Architecture, an approach to contemporary design that embraces hip-hop culture and applies its shape, structure, and ideologies to the built environment.”
- The symposium will feature a spectacular list of speakers who have been instrumental leaders in shaping contemporary practices addressing social justice, particularly in universal design.
- Speakers will include Darren Walker, Maddy Burke-Vigeland, Jeffrey Mansfield, Elaine Ostroff, Valerie Fletcher, Victor Pineda, and Susan Schwelk with a keynote talk by Christopher Downey, our inaugural Lifchez Professor of Practice in Social Justice.
- This month our panelists will respond to the latest IPCC report and the indictment of settler colonialism, capitalism and war in accelerating the climate crisis as well as share stories and wisdom from front line battles in Detroit, Hudson Valley, Puerto Rico, The Rockaways, Minnesota and here in NYC, where communities are leading the way in the fight for public power and sustainable renewable energy.
- We will learn more about the perpetrators of environmental racism and the biggest funders of fossil fuel projects in the world and actions we can take locally to steer us off the deadly path of fossil fuels into a more equitable sustainable society.
- In this second annual installment, “Notes from Within, again,” invites prospective and admitted students to once again sit in fellowship and exchange with members of the Black Student Alliance at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University [BSA+GSAPP].
- Virtual Lecture at Morgan State University: When Statues Fall: What Ukraine's Decommunization Means For American Cities
- Brent D. Ryan is Head of the City Design and Development Group and Associate Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. His research focuses on the aesthetics and policies of contemporary urban design, particularly with respect to current and pressing issues like deindustrialization and climate change. Professor Ryan’s first book Design After Decline: How America rebuilds shrinking cities, was selected by Planetizen as one of its ten best urban planning books of 2012, and his second book, The Largest Art, was published by MIT Press in 2017.
- Yegor Vlanseko is Fulbriight Visiting Scholar, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Yasmeen Lari is Pakistan's first female architect. Born in 1941 in the town of Dera Ghazi Khan, Mrs. Lari spent much of her childhood in Pakistan before moving to London at 15 years old. She graduated from the Oxford School of Architecture in 1964 at the age of 23, and later returned to Pakistan with her husband to open their practice, Lari Associates, in Karachi.
- Addressing the climate crisis will require an unprecedented scale, scope, and pace of physical landscape transformation. There is an essential role for the built environment disciplines to play in reimagining this future and translating the goals of decarbonization, jobs, and justice into on-the-ground practices and built works. Through panel discussions with leading changemakers, this summit examines the intersection of policy, design, and advocacy to identify ways to accelerate individual and collective actions to effect change.
- Organized by the Landscape Architecture Foundation
- Darell Wayne Fields: “The House for Josephine Baker: Spatial Rhetorics”
- Mario Gooden: “This House is Not White”
- Anne Anlin Cheng: “Naked Houses, Sartorial Skins”
- National parks encompass nearly 85 million acres of what is today the United States. They are known as “America’s best idea” for the range of experiences that they provide to travelers across varied landscapes. Yet all park lands are also ancestral homelands of Indigenous peoples. Beginning with Yellowstone National Park in 1872, national park creation was tied to federal efforts to seize Native American lands. US leaders claimed that Indigenous nations improperly managed “wilderness,” understood to be a pristine nature absent human interventions—including traditional hunting, foraging, and harvesting—and must be removed. However, much scholarship and activism has shown the deep embeddedness of humans within the non-human environment, as well as the vitality of Indigenous peoples' strategies for the productive management of ecosystems in lands belonging to them since time immemorial. The speakers will address the historic and ongoing efforts of Native Americans to enact caretaking roles in ancestral homelands at different scales, from national parks to land trusts in New England.
- Keynote: David Treuer. Roundtable: Darren Ranco, Jane Anderson, Suzanne Greenlaw.
- YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST showcases the labor, processes, and love behind the multidimensional projects of Design As Protest Collective(DAP).
- DAP Collective was established in the wake of massive losses of life in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd. Following the National Call on June 3, 2020, DAP began to grow through weekly BIPOC organizer calls on Zoom, fractalizing into myriad collaborations fueled by long-running injustices in the built environment. YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST celebrates DAP’s projects and materializes the labor and love behind the work. Projects in the show reframe and reclaim design as a tool for protest and collective liberation rather than violence and oppression. In manifesting DAP’s complex virtual relationships and organizing in physical forms, the show reveals the transformative capacity of collaborative design processes that center justice, joy, and community care. Through an ethos of “bias toward action,” YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST is a call to action for all designers to interrogate their role in anti-racist design.
- Speakers: Maria Givens (Coeur d'Alene), Valerie Grussing, Bonnie McGill, Ph.D., Fred Mosqueda (Arapaho), Paul Spitler
- Co-sponsored by the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, The Wilderness Society, and The Natural History Museum
- Thousands of mountains, valleys and rivers located on public lands have names that are derogatory, misogynistic, racist or just plain offensive. These names perpetuate a history of colonization and oppression in the United States and have resulted in public lands that are not welcoming and inclusive places. It’s time to change that. Join us for a conversation that delves into the scope of the problem and examines patterns of offensive place names in national parks, hear from grassroots advocates working to change offensive places nearest them, and learn about what you can do to help.
- What can a trained architect bring to the study of colonial history? What would the concept of space-time, if taken seriously, bring to our study of and struggle against colonialism? By way of spatial analysis, Léopold Lambert examines 74 years of occupation of Palestine as well as the various movements of liberation that challenged French colonialism — in particular the 1954-62 Algerian Revolution, the 1984-88 Kanak insurrection, and the 2005 banlieues uprising — in order to reflect on what constitutes the colonial continuum as a surface of space-time, and how to represent it in maps and diagrams.
- Learning from the practice of Loudreading, models of critical practice and research can challenge institutional accounts of history.
- Learning from the practice of Loudreading, models of critical practice and research can challenge institutional accounts of history.
- A virtual cultural and political experience centering Indigenous climate and conservation leadership hosted by DWP founder Edgar Villanueva. Speakers include Jade Begay, Quannah ChasingHorse, Princess Daazhraii Johnson. and more! Charly Lowry, Tony Duncan, and Alexis Raeana will offer inspired performances throughout the evening.
- Using the Guides for Equitable Practice (“the Guides”) and additional resources, this course will provide a foundation for architects and design professionals to build their awareness of issues of equity in the workplace and suggest ways to begin to address them.
- Organized by: AIA Cincinnati, AIA Cleveland, AIA Columbus, AIA New York
- This virtual event is hosted by Emergent Grounds in Design Education
- This participatory teach-in will explore past, present and future histories of carceral design, and the abolitionist possibilities offered through design justice practices.
- The Immigrant Architects Coalition: Yu-Ngok Lo, FAIA, LEED AP; Graciela Carrillo, AIA LEED AP; Shahad Sadeq
- To be successful in the architecture profession, immigrant architects have to overcome a unique combination of educational, monetary and cultural challenges. This candid discussion sheds light on industry leaders who dared to migrate, leaving family and friends behind in pursuit of the American Dream. From schooling, hiring, sponsorship, cultural and language changes, each of our distinguished panelists share these encountered challenges and resilient stories of their paths to success. Join the Immigrants Architects Coalition as they teach and empower the next generation of leaders, working together toward a more equitable profession.
- Cameron Rowland (American, born 1988) creates work that centers on the material operations of racial capitalism that order everyday life. Rowland’s work relies on a materialist approach to the conditions of production that structure both institutions of subjection as well as their refusal. The work is grounded in a critique of property, and the capacity for art to function as a medium of this critique.
- Urban Design Forum: Activating Streets 05/05 @9am
- This event forms a part of our NY-LON yearly series, which brings together speakers and audiences to foster cross-city dialogue and learning between global cities
- Architects are reimagining the places where we live, work, and gather. Many modern indoor spaces are sealed shut and climate-controlled. The pandemic prompted people to open the windows, move activities outside, and control the flow of indoor air. From plastic sneeze guards to graphics for social distancing, new norms sprang quickly into place. What worked and what didn’t? How can everyone have access to healthier spaces?
- The program will feature presentations from all six 2019 League Prize winners: Rachel G. Barnard, founding director of Young New Yorkers; Jennifer Bonner, MALL; Virginia Black, Rosana Elkhatib, Gabrielle Printz, feminist architecture collaborative; Mira Hasson Henry, (HA); Gregory Melitonov, Taller KEN; Cyrus Peñarroyo, EXTENTS
- Society’s Cage will be open to the Public in Oakland at FRANK OGAWA PLAZA in front of City Hall from May 9 thru May 30, 2022.
- Speakers: Lillian Cho, Stephanie A. Johnson-Cunningham, Kemi Ilesanmi,
- Moderators: Koray Duman, Peter Zuspan
- Prominent, well-capitalized cultural institutions are often located in privileged neighborhoods, where cultural capital follows economic capital, making institutions inaccessible for many marginalized and minority communities. This second program in the Social (In)Justice and Spatial Practice series, focusing on Decentralizing the Brick and Mortar Institution, looks at new models for decentralizing institutions and expanding the foot print of cultural capital.
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- Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League are launching a fellowship program to empower new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and develop our cities. The fellowship will support the development of five critics from underrepresented backgrounds through guest lectures and workshops, research guidance, mentorship opportunities, networking, and production of new critical projects in Urban Omnibus and other leading publications. Through public programs and other channels, the fellowship will encourage a more expansive conversation on the future of cities.
- Ideas Pinup is an instagram page dedicated to conversation about race and landscape architecture. The intention is to shed light on the racist history of Seneca Village and Central Park. See full announcement on their IGTV post.
- Submission Limit: None, submit as many ideas as your brain desires
- Submission Format: jpg
- Submission: send DM to @awescapes
- FOR BLACK ARTISTS - The Black Realities Grant is a response to the ongoing state violence and murder of Black people. The Grant awards a monthly cash prize to media projects that explore the varied conditions, experiences, feelings, and range of humanity of the Black global community. All formats, genres, and categories of screen-based projects will be considered including films, TV, games, apps, VR/AR experiences, photojournalism, and more. There are only two hard requirements: first, the lead creator must be Black, and second, the perspective of Black folx and the centering of Black thoughts and characters must be the core of the project. We encourage submissions that highlight the vast and multilayered range of subjects, perspectives and content within Black realities, which also includes and welcomes the exploration of the current and ongoing anti-Black political and social climate.
- The Museum is launching Rendering Visible, a digital collecting initiative focused on the creative production of black architects. This initiative will allow the Museum to identify architectural illustrations that may be suitable for inclusion in the Museum's collection of digital images.
- The goal of Rendering Visible is to document the creativity of black architects and designers. We are interested in sketches, renderings, and artistic illustrations that convey the intent and concept of a design project. From the materials submitted, our staff will identify illustrations to be considered for an online archive and/or print publication about the architectural imagination.
- In an effort to use our platform to support anti-racist teaching for the coming academic year, we are reaching out to colleagues who have taught on race and architecture in the hopes that they can format and submit one of their lectures to be shared in our database. We are soliciting lectures that contribute to the understanding of how race and racism are constructed in the built environment, and how in turn space can be shaped by racism. Lectures can be focused on any time period and geographic location. We encourage lectures that guide students in the discussion of white supremacy and the production of racialized spaces, as well as lectures that focus on spaces of resistance such as quilombos and freedom colonies. This call is open to all, we encourage BIPOC scholars to submit. We aim to fund three separate individuals for the development of one lecture each, with an honoraria of $3,500.00 per lecture.
- This section of Introduction to Modern Type Design is offered free of cost to provide greater access to education in the field. Members of all groups traditionally underrepresented and/or excluded from the type design industry are encouraged to apply, but we will be giving priority to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color).
- Apply here for the $500 2020 Diversity Scholarship through the APA Women & Planning Division.
- Based on common foundations and a shared vision, NOMA, NAACP, and the SEED Network announce awards the NOMA-NAACP-SEED Design Awards for diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) in design, architecture, and land development diversity. Six (6) projects will be selected through a juried process of distinguished experts. The Award Winning Projects will be presented by the respective design teams in conjunction with the NOMA Annual Conference which will be held online, October 17, 2020. A $1,000 Honorarium will be given to each winning team to present at the “Structures for Inclusion” event and award ceremony.
- The two day, virtual event from November 12-13, 2020 will focus on diversity and social equity not solely as a topic at a conference, but as a lens through which all planning and community development should be implemented.
- Calling architects and design professionals to submit a proposal for participation in the 48th Annual NOMA Conference and Expo – NOMA SPATIAL SHIFTS: Reclaiming our Cities – which is being held from October 14th -18th 2020. Researchers and designers in the field of architecture, urbanism, landscape design and urban planning are invited to submit proposals for the development of initiatives and design works that make a meaningful contribution to the central theme of this year’s Virtual Conference.
- This year, ACD 43: RECENTER, will be a unique opportunity to pause, focus on our intentions, remind ourselves why we do this work, reconsider how we do this work to prioritize justice and equity, take action, and create the change our communities deserve. Sessions at RECENTER will make space for our identities outside of practitioners, engage one another to imagine how we might adapt our work, and examine the systemic injustices and inequities at the root of the symptoms we see. RECENTER will be structured around three thematic tracks; Recharge, Revisit, and Regroup.
- NOMA members design. If you’re a member, we’re inviting you to design the future. You see, 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the existence of the National Organization of Minority Architects. The plans for celebrating this milestone call for equally impactful identity treatment. To that end the NOMA at 50 Taskforce has decided to call on its infinitely talented membership to lend their design expertise to the effort. The logo will be used in all organization communications during the run-up to 2021 and beyond appearing in online, in print and on merchandise.
- We’ve teamed up with the great folks over at Baggu to design 4 bags that will benefit FOUR Black designers and the Where are the Black Designers? organization. See details via the link.
- Please send a portfolio, poster design, or any design artifact to watbd.contest@gmail.com no later than 12pm EST on Friday, August 21.
- The Public Access Design Fellowship is a yearlong professional development program for emerging designers. Over the course of the year, a cohort of Fellows meet every other month to learn about community-engaged design practices, including relevant topics like CUP’s methodology, anti-oppression practices in design, and community organizing. During these meetings, Fellows have the opportunity to connect with prominent visual designers working in social change, community organizers, and other CUP collaborators. Fellows receive an honorarium of $200 for their participation. Three to four Fellows will also have the opportunity to collaborate with CUP and a community partner to create a visually accessible print tool through the Public Access Design program, and receive an additional honorarium of $3,000.
- BBE has elevated and proclaimed the greatness of 250 diverse designers through our 15 SAY IT LOUD Exhibitions to date. The goal initially was to reach 500 in 5 years. The urgency for this content is NOW and as we discuss the books that must be removed from the curriculum, we are looking to make a meaningful addition. We will publish a Great Diverse Designers textbook and create a directory for business opportunities for the featured designers.
- Submissions to the Phil Freelon NOMA Professional Design Awards must be made by registered architects who are current NOMA members as of the submission deadline, September 11th, Awards will be announced at the NOMA Conference virtual Awards Brunch on Saturday, October 17, 2020. Entries may include new construction, rehabilitation, restorations, additions, adaptive reuse, or conceptual work in the following award categories: Built Work; Unbuilt Work; Vision; Historic Preservation, Restoration and Renovation; and Small Projects.
- Making Policy Public projects are intensive 8-10 month collaborations with CUP and a community organization that result in a fold-out poster that breaks down and demystifies a complex social justice issue. We’re looking for four individuals or teams with strengths and experience in information organization, typography, and using different visuals including (but not limited to!) illustration or photography. Designers receive an honorarium of $5,000 for their participation.
- All paid NOMAS members are eligible to be nominated for the Student Member of the Year award. Members may nominate themselves or another student member. Nominees must be currently enrolled students for the 2020-2021 academic year and must be in good standing with the national organization. The Student Member of the Year will be announced at the 2020 NOMA Virtual Conference Awards Brunch. Submission deadline is October 5th, 2020, at 11:59 pm PST.
- Student chapters must have submitted their 2020 Student Chapter Report to be considered for the Chapter of the Year Award. The recipient of this award will be announced at the 2020 Virtual NOMA Conference Awards Brunch and will receive a certificate and $250 grant to be used for future chapter programming. Important: Chapters must have a university bank account associated with their chapter in order to receive funds. Submission deadline is October 5, 2020, at 11:59 pm PST.
- The NOMA Board of Directors is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed, and enthusiastic individual to serve as a National Student Representative. There is one available slot for this position.
- Following the success of the inaugural NOMA Foundation Fellowship (NFF), this special winter installment of the program aims to place recent graduates of HBCU architecture programs in a paid research fellowship. Fellows will be placed with host firms from across the country for an 8-week fellowship beginning in January 2021. Fellows who meet all requirements for licensure within five years of graduation will be eligible for an additional $1,000 stipend.
- We are making an open call for designers to make yard signs. Selected designs will receive a $200 honorarium and be screen printed at a83 and be given out to anyone who has donated to or volunteered for a campaign. Please send proposed designs to editor@nyra.nyc, then post to your Instagram page and tag @nyreviewofarchitecture. Submitted designs: Can be as simple as VOTE or present some of the pivotal issues at stake in this moment. Must be a sign you would be proud to put in your yard or window. Should be joyful. 18x24 inches. One or two colors, any gradient possible.
- Scholarships available. Ubuntu Architecture Summer Abroad (UASA) is an intercollegiate virtual educational experience in which students learn a community-centered approach to impacting large communities by designing and building, dignified and culturally-influenced housing for resilient families.
- We have created the SmithGroup Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Scholarship Program to support and mentor students from historically underrepresented demographics in architecture, interior design, planning, landscape architecture and engineering. The program’s mission is to provide these students with the opportunity to attain their professional goals while advancing the architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) industry and improving the built environment.
- We invite eager and talented underrepresented emerging design professionals to apply for the design industry’s premiere career-building curriculum based fellowship.
- Created in 2020, the Robert L. Wesley Award supports BIPOC undergraduate students enrolled in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, or structural engineering programs across the US. The award aims to support the academic development of the student. In 2020, the Robert L. Wesley Award will provide three $10,000 unrestricted awards. The award honors Robert L. Wesley, the first Black partner at SOM.
- Place.less.space is now looking for contributors as part of the launching of the digital gallery. We accept contributions from creators and designers of colour only, preferably based in Europe. Applications are open until November, 15th. The selected contributions will be showcased in place.less.space as well as in the first edition of place.less.review (first printed copies will be available in sept 2021)
- 2020 Topic: Examining Social Justice in Urban Contexts
- Grant proposals should address how design professionals can work toward urban justice and examine how design can contribute to conditions of social justice in cities, neighborhoods, buildings, and public spaces. The proposals should help identify strategies, policies, and interventions that can increase access, agency, ownership, diversity, and empowerment. Submission proposals should incorporate multidisciplinary teams and build upon disciplines that seek to scientifically understand this multifaceted topic. Teams should develop a study that is based on rigorous research and that provides a unique and innovative approach to the topic.
- Open to ALL HBCU STUDENTS
- Participants will design the HBCU Africa Innovation City in Akwamufie, Ghana which will become a critical anchor in the global drive to build the largest S.T.E.A.A.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Architecture, Art, Math) hub across the African diaspora.
- The program is targeted towards students passionate about architectural research. Each CRIT Scholar will receive a $1,000 grant to fund their research. In addition, they will be personally matched with an architect advisor who is specialized in their topic area of research. Mentors will be from firms, such as Payette, HKS Architects, and Sasaki. Applicants do not need to have a completed project in order to apply and proposals in various stages of research will be reviewed. Those interested in applying must be an active AIAS member.
- Available to cross-disciplinary scholars, with preference for candidates with terminal degrees (PhD or MLA). Awards are for a semester or academic year. Apply by December 1.
- The Avery Review, a journal of critical essays on architecture published by the Office of Publications at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, is calling for candidates to apply to be the Avery Review’s 2021 Guest Editor (formerly the Editorial Fellow). The Guest Editor will commission and develop essays based on their interest, will contribute their own essay, and will take part in our regular editorial process, including for our annual Essay Prize. They will likely be a recent graduate (or will soon be graduating) from an architectural degree program—but there are no explicit requirements. The Guest Editor will receive a stipend.
- Are you a BAME aspiring writer interested in architectural publishing, broadcasting and curation? New Architecture Writers (N.A.W.) is a free programme offering a small group the opportunity to participate in a year-long series of talks, workshops, tours, writing briefs and other activities, which will be led by acclaimed editors, architects, journalists, curators and broadcasters. N.A.W. is supported by the Architecture Foundation and the Architectural Review.
- Please respond in 2000 characters or less (email in linked post): What do you think is the biggest challenge for minorities in obtaining leadership roles in landscape architecture? And what would you propose to remedy this challenge?
- The Female Design Council Grant is an inaugural juried grant initiative launched to support Black womxn designers in the United States. FDC recognizes the importance of providing direct funding to designers, especially Black womxn. FDC is committing two $2,500 USD financial grants to a Black womxn-led design studio or individual providing emerging designers with the financial resources to bring their idea into prototyping and/or production.
- Each year our curator selects a wide range of speakers from first-timers on a stage to seasoned speakers. Your proposal can include the following topics: Using the creative practice to address social ills and systems of oppression through Social Justice; Using creative craft to meet the needs of specific identities through Designing Diversity; Developing a collective acumen of Traditional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Reflex is looking for support on a large transportation planning project in Northern California. We will be facilitating a series of co-design workshops in multiple communities impacted by transportation inequity to co-create recommendations about potential new rail infrastructure and service connecting the Bay Area to Sacramento and the larger 21 county Northern California Megaregion. We may have other equity-centered co-creation projects in sectors ranging from public transportation and housing to organizational development that the Equity Design Associate could support on. We are looking for two Equity Design Associates: one working part-time and one working full-time. Both Equity Design Associates will support project management, building community partnerships, facilitating workshops, engaging in meetings and strategy, synthesizing research, and coordinating logistics.
- The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) is offering a one-year fellowship to support a scholar(s) whose work focuses on matters of contemporary urgency. These could include equity in the built environment, environmental justice, collaborative modes of practice, the role of inclusive architecture education, relationships between identity and design, investigation into climate change mitigation connected to social and environmental justice, and other topics. Given the unique pressures of this time, both in the wider discipline and in higher education, SARUP is particularly (but not exclusively) interested in proposals that investigate the relationship of the fellow’s practice to local or regional aspects of Milwaukee life, culture and urbanism. The fellow in architectural activism can expect the support of SARUP colleagues to facilitate connections to organizations and individuals who will amplify avenues of research opportunity even within a short period of residency.
- The SCI-Arc SoCalNOMA Scholarship is a need-based, full-tuition scholarship intended for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The scholarship itself will fund full tuition for all 5 years of SCI-Arc’s B.Arch program, 2-3 years of its M.Arch 1 or 2 programs, or 1 year of its Master of Science postgraduate programs. Applications are currently being accepted online, and are due by January 15, 2021. For any questions contact the Office of Admissions at 213.353.5320 or email admissions@sciarc.edu.
- Youth Design Center (YDC) is excited to announce a new partnership with Today at Apple. This city-wide initiative brings virtual workshops to some of NYC’s most visionary makers to develop their own creative portfolios in a free 14-week virtual series from March 3–June 13, 2021. YDC will recruit 15 East Brooklyn youth, age 15 to 18, who will collaborate with other young creators from across the city to develop their skills in art & design, film, photography, and coding. In collaboration with Lower Eastside Girls Club, and Ghetto Film School, the young creators will unleash their radical imagination in a city-wide exhibition at the end of the program.
- We created the Diversity Advancement Scholarship to help more minority students pursue a successful career in architecture. Multiple scholarships are available. Scholarships may be renewed for up to 5 years (up to a $20,000 total award—multiple scholarships are available).
- The Payette Sho-Ping Chin Memorial Academic Scholarship is a $10,000 architecture scholarship supporting a woman studying architecture within a NAAB-accredited bachelor or master’s degree program. To help the scholarship recipient establish contacts within the profession, she will be assigned a senior mentor from Payette for the scholarship year.
- The Yann Weymouth Graduate Scholarship supports a graduate student whose work demonstrates an exemplary focus at the design intersection of sustainability, resilience, wellness and beauty. The scholarship recipient receives $5,000 and mentorship from Yann Weymouth, AIA for the scholarship year.
- The a/e ProNet David W. Lakamp scholarship is awarded annually to two students who demonstrate a strong interest in practice and risk management in the field of architecture. Each student receives a $5,000 award.
- The Citizen Architect Fellows Program is geared towards recent professional architecture degree graduates who aspire to careers in academia. The Program is designed to expose Fellows to a diversity of teaching and research methods; provide resources to enable Fellows to execute a specific research project while in residence; and to provide a mentoring and networking platform to enable them to succeed in attaining academic positions in their field of emerging expertise.
- The Avery Review, a journal of critical essays on architecture published by the Office of Publications at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, invites submissions for its fourth annual Essay Prize. The call is open to current students (undergraduate and masters) and recent graduates, whether in schools of architecture or elsewhere. In keeping with the mission of the journal, we hope to receive submissions that use the genres of the review and the critical essay to explore the urgent questions animating the field of architecture. We’re looking for essays that test and expand the author’s own intellectual commitments—theoretical, architectural, and political—through the work of others.
- The Desiree V. Cooper (DVC) Memorial Scholarship Foundation seeks to honor the life and legacy of Desiree V. Cooper by championing the things she was passionate about in her professional career and personal endeavors: providing continual service to her communities and encouraging minorities and women in the advancement of their careers in architecture. To that end, the Foundation awards Scholarships for the architectural registration exam in the following categories: The Black Women in Architecture Award, The Harrisburg Memorial Award, and The DC Memorial Award.
- Eligible applicants are landscape architecture students currently enrolled in an LAAB- or LAAC- accredited master's degree program at a university in the U.S. or Canada. Students must have a minimum grade point average of 2.5 (on a 4-point scale.) Applicants should show commitment to underserved urban communities and addressing community-scale design issues. Preference is given to candidates interested in pursuing a career in the non-profit or public sector.
- One $10,000 scholarship and up to three $5,000 runner-up scholarships are awarded each year to promising students, with priority given to students of underrepresented populations and/or with financial need. Geographic distribution of the applicant pool will also be considered.
- The EDSA Diversity Scholarship was established to help African American, Hispanic, Native American and minority students of other cultural and ethnic backgrounds continue their landscape architecture education. Eligible candidates are in their final two years of undergraduate study or pursuing a graduate degree in landscape architecture.
- This scholarship is open to undergraduate landscape architecture students who identify as BIPOC and are currently enrolled in a LAAB- or LAAC-accredited program in the US or Canada. Candidates must demonstrate financial need, academic aptitude, and commitment to the discipline of landscape architecture.
- The award is open to currently-enrolled undergraduate or master's students studying landscape architecture at Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board (LAAB) accredited programs in the United States. To be eligible, the applicant’s university must be within the ASLA-NY Chapter boundary* or the applicant must be a permanent resident of the Chapter boundary or must have graduated from a high school within the ASLA-NY Chapter boundary. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and have a minimum “B” grade point average (2.5 on a 4-point scale.)
- Materials & Applications is happy to announce the launch of 96.7 KGAP-LP FM, Los Angeles’ only terrestrial architecture radio station. In collaboration with Lookout FM (directed by Cameron Stallones), KGAP will feature programs that fill in gaps of architectural programming by prioritizing the voices and perspectives of those that are most marginalized in the practice and discourses of architecture and art.
- Deem is a biannual print journal and online platform exploring design as social practice. Our approach to design finds opportunities to highlight, inspire, and empower voices that are often underrepresented in the design space.
- Now accepting proposals for Cultivating Black and Native Futures in Education, a free virtual conference for scholars, artists, organizers, educators, activists, youth, and practitioners to convene in the spirit of radical joy, love, solidarity, and building what Ashon Crawley has termed “otherwise worlds” or what Leanne Betasamosake Simpson has called a “radical alternative present.” What does it look like for Black and Indigenous peoples to know our shared history as survivors of state violence, genocide, and settler colonialism, and move together toward imagining collective liberation and celebration of ourselves, one another, our people, and the land/waterways? How can we work to make educational learning spaces-- inside and outside of schools/institutions-- as sites of exploratory and experiential learning, community accountability and answerability, resurgence and rematriation, and the forwarding of Black and Indigenous futures?
- BlackSpace is collecting 50 stories by March 5 for a Manifesto "impact story fund" this month where people - including you - can submit stories of how you've used the Manifesto! If you don't have a story but still want to contribute to our growth, donate - and encourage your networks to give a gift to our crowdfund campaign closing March 5th as well - we have a goal of 50 donations of any size!
- The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture invites applications and nominations for its 2021-23 Emerging Scholar in Design. This position is the second of two recently established fellowships offering promising individuals that are at the beginning of their academic career in architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, or interior design the opportunity to develop a body of work in the context of teaching and research. The school particularly encourages highly motivated applicants that are able to integrate their scholarly trajectory with their pedagogical agenda.
- For the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years, the School of Architecture is seeking a Fellow who is addressing issues of race or gender in the built environment through either current research and/or creative design practice. The two-year fellowship will accommodate two courses over the Fall and Spring semesters (a topical seminar one semester and either a studio course or a required non-studio course in the other, in each academic year) both related to the candidate’s area of interest. Teaching responsibilities may involve both the graduate and undergraduate programs.
- Places is seeking to build capacity in the ranks of design writers and to raise the cultural visibility and influence of the design disciplines. For more than a generation, the number of practicing design critics has been dwindling. Yet the need for informed and incisive criticism of architecture and landscape architecture remains pressing. Growing demands for greater urban equity and social justice; the accumulating impacts of the climate crisis; the rapid proliferation of new digital and material technologies; increasing calls for professional reform — all are posing challenges for the design disciplines, and underscoring the importance of serious and sustained critical discussion.
- For this inaugural round, two critics will be selected, one in architecture and one in landscape architecture. Critics will be in (virtual) residence with the journal for a term of one year and receive a stipend of $7,500 to write four major critical essays.
- This conference seeks to engage with the work of archaeologists, ethnobotanists, cultural geographers, anthropologists, and of experts in African American Studies and oral history in order to form a more complete picture of the African contribution to the shaping of the North American landscape. Proposals for unpublished papers are welcome from scholars in any field.
- The Stantec Equity & Diversity Scholarship will contribute to the creation of a critical mass of talented students that will fully represent our industry—it will provide an environment in which all can thrive academically and professionally. Through this scholarship, Stantec will award $200,000 annually. We believe everyone has a right to education, and we are committed to providing people in historically underrepresented and Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) groups with financial aid.
- In partnership with the AIA Large Firm Roundtable (LFRT), NOMA created a fellowship program to help increase the number of minority architects throughout the U.S. Following the success of the inaugural NOMA Foundation Fellowship (NFF), we are pleased to announce the launch of the Summer 2021 Cohort of the NOMA Foundation Fellowship!
- Up to 20 fellowships available; 8-week Virtual or In-person Part-time Internship (June 14-August 6) – A limited number of full-time internships may be available; $2,560 stipend; $1,000 Licensure Stipend if fellows become a licensed architect within 5 years of completing the fellowship
- Greater Good Studio is seeking a talented Design Research Lead to join our team! We are looking for someone who is innovative, organized, and able to think strategically yet also be detail-oriented. You are a strong collaborator, project manager, and have demonstrated experience making observations and connections about people in diverse contexts. Please note that presently, and for the foreseeable future, our team is working remotely. Because we intend to resume in-person work once it is deemed safe, we are seeking candidates located in (or willing to relocate to) Chicago.
- Calling on architects to submit a proposal for participation in the Annual NOMA Conference and Expo – NOMA HOMECOMING: DETROIT50 – which is being held from October 17th – 20th, 2021. Researchers and designers in the field of architecture, urbanism, landscape design and urban planning are invited to submit proposals for the development of initiatives and design works that make a meaningful contribution for the central theme of the Conference.
- The theme of Pivot 2021 focuses on the tools that we might design and use to dismantle the structures of the current civilizational model (aka patriarchal capitalist Modernity) and to reassemble the debris into new models, converting debris into the nurturing humus for worlds in the making.
- Design Futures 2021 Request for Proposals is open for submissions. They are seeking proposals for 90-minute Elective Workshops for the 2021 Design Futures Student Leadership Forum. Do you have an idea for an engaging and interactive workshop around an aspect of community-engaged design? Review the RFP and consider submitting a proposal! Proposals must be submitted by April 26, 2021.This year's Forum will be hosted virtually by the University of Michigan from June 9-12, 2021.
- The Michigan/Mellon Project on Egalitarianism and the Metropolis is an interdisciplinary academic and research initiative focused on architecture, urbanism and humanities research in Detroit, Michigan. Made possible by a grant from the A. W. Mellon Foundation, the project allows design theory and practice to inform and be informed by questions of social justice, social movements, and transformative creative arts movements – both past and present. The emphasis on cities and their specificity will focus humanists on linking theories of human interaction and collective life with the physical space of a city and its histories. The increased expertise in urbanism allows for humanists to better understand the market forces and economic constraints that inform design decisions that directly affect human life. This fellowship appointment is for one (1 ) year, beginning July 1, 2021, and has two primary responsibilities related to research and teaching.
- OCAD U seeks proposals from artists, designers and related cultural workers that will explore the symposium’s theme of reflective contemplation in the face of dire need. The intent is to foreground issues of sustainability as they inflect on Indigenous and other racialized and disproportionately affected communities, and how art and design modalities might provide opportunities and pathways toward an imagined world which privileges such rebalancing. OCAD U is accepting individual and small group proposals; full-panel presentations, so a school or collaborations across schools, can propose a sustained conversation; full-panel case study presentations from individual schools to specifically showcase how different institutions interpret and manage different issues.
- The Black Futures Lab 501(c3) works to make Black communities powerful in politics. We transform Black communities into constituencies that wield independent, political power at the municipal, state, and federal level. The problems our communities face are complex; the solutions to those problems require imagination, experimentation, and political power. We advance strategies that help us imagine the alternatives we deserve, while building political power at the local, state and national level in order to implement those alternatives. This position is shared with our sister entity Black to the Future Action Fund, a separate 501(c4).
- The Thrivance Group and the Unurbanist community invite you to share your knowledge, calls to action, and unurbanist ideas at our virtual teach-in. Our theme is Healing and Atonement, so we’re looking for presentations and workshops that move the field of planning (and other public sector disciplines) toward Transformative Justice and acts of atonement such as reparations, speaking truth to power, accountability, visionary models, and people-centered interventions. All sessions (regardless of format) are 60-minutes. We will review proposals on a rolling basis until all slots have been filled.
- The Black Reconstruction Collective is seeking a visionary Executive Director to guide the next phase of development and work collaboratively with the ten founding board members to transition from a founding board to governing board towards our mission to provide funding, design, and intellectual support to the ongoing and incomplete project of emancipation for the African Diaspora. Start Date is September 1, 2021. See link for further details.
- The inaugural #BlackDesignVisionaries grant program — presented by Instagram's @design in partnership with the Brooklyn Museum — is an effort to empower, center, and invest in the global Black design community.
- We will award three $10,000 grants to aspiring Black designers between the ages of 18 and 30, as well as one $100,000 grant to a small, Black-led design business no more than 10 years into its practice. Grant applications will be reviewed by a panel of prominent Black designers, led by the curator and writer Antwaun Sargent.
- Monument Lab is excited to announce Re:Generation – an open call for locally-grounded, grassroots art and justice projects in 2022. We invite applications from collaborative teams rooted within a neighborhood, city, or region in the United States inclusive of Indigenous nations and communities, U.S. territories, and cross-border collectives. Each Re:Generation team will receive a total of $100,000 toward their local commemorative campaign or project. Re:Generation is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- The new Community Fellowship Program will promote educational ties between the School and surrounding communities of color in response to students’ desire to learn more about the urban environment in which the School is situated. GSAPP is making a three-year commitment to award two $20,000 fellowships to a local practitioner each academic year, in exchange for Fellow participation in lectures, programs, and classes related to one or more of the disciplines of the built environment addressed at GSAPP. The Community Fellows will help institutionalize the School’s commitment to anti-racist pedagogy and practice as well as further develop relationships between GSAPP and New York-based communities of color. Community Fellows will have a Columbia ID card and access to Avery Library, the computer lab, and courses.
- OCAD University invites applicants to four (4) Tenured/Tenure-track positions at any rank within all disciplines of the Faculty of Design. This opportunity is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as Indigenous Peoples of North America or Peoples of Turtle Island, including those who identify as First Nations (status, non-status, treaty or non-treaty), Métis, Inuit, or Alaskan Native, Native American, and Native Hawaiian Peoples. This initiative is a special program under the Ontario Human Rights Code.
- The Tulane University School of Architecture is seeking qualified candidates for the Tulane Architecture Fellowship beginning Fall 2021. This visiting assistant professor position is a two-year teaching and research fellowship that endeavors to mentor emerging scholars, practitioners, and academics who are committed to principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the built environment.
- The University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning seeks applications for two fellowships focusing on racial and spatial justice - one in architecture and urban design focusing on the built environment and one in urban planning and/or architecture with a designated role as a co-investigator on our Egalitarian Metropolis research project. Both are two-year fellowships.
- The two day, virtual event will take place from November 4-5, 2021. Hindsight will focus on diversity and social equity not solely as a topic at a conference, but as a lens through which all planning and community development should be implemented. We invite you and the general public to submit proposals for innovative sessions (panels, workshops, skill-share, performance, exhibition) that focuses on the theme and ensures a diversity of panelists and speakers.
- Full details linked here. ACD is seeking proposals that share projects, ideas, and conversations that explore intersectional justice through design practice. We are interested in work that puts radical politics into practice, work that actively disrupts systems of oppression, and work that demonstrates how design can be used as a tool to work towards collective liberation.
- Critical Design Lab is currently accepting up to two new members for the 2021-2022 school year. Qualified candidates will be graduate students enrolled in a graduate program, such as an M.A., M.S., or Ph.D. program or relevant professional program, with interest in disability, design, critical accessibility, and related topics. Disabled Black and/or Indigenous people, other disabled people of color, and queer disabled people are encouraged to apply. We will put out a separate call for members who are not enrolled in academic programs at a later date.
- Through the Creative Futures Grant, Black Artists and Designers Guild is providing opportunities to four selected Black undergraduate and graduate students in Architecture, Design and Fine Art to receive the $5000 award, a chance to join the canon of Black Art & Design and bring their art and design dreams closer to becoming reality. The Creative Futures Grant is intended to support the kinds of projects that Black students in the arts may want to do but are not necessarily supported to create at their educational institutions. The grant seeks to activate young professionals toward actualizing all the phases of a professional project: from ideation to research to working through the steps of what the final project might look like in the world.
- The Design Services Director is responsible for leading the Collaborative’s program initiatives. The key roles are to identify—and in some cases originate, coordinate, manage, and oversee all projects, programs, and initiatives related to the Collaborative’s pro bono design services.
- The Program Manager will manage the day-to-day progress on a portfolio of projects under the direction of the Design Services Director.
- We are *anonymously* collecting salaries for teaching positions and contracts at design and built environment institutions. Please use this form to submit any teaching contract position information that you are comfortable sharing as anonymous and aggregated data with a wider audience. We will not collect or share names or contact information as a part of this survey. The collected data will be shared with the DMU roster and potentially used to help guide our negotiations for DMU courses and as a resource for DMU network roster members for their own contract negotiations. This information will also be compiled and shared more broadly as a resource for others in the field. Thank you!
- The Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholarship recognizes the significant contributions of emerging professionals at early stages in their careers and helps defray the costs associated with the Architect Registration Examination (ARE). Developed by the AIA National Associates Committee, the scholarship honors the memory of late friend and colleague, Jason Pettigrew. Assoc. AIA.
- The New Monument Task Force's next initiative looks towards the future of monuments and public art as we slowly recover from a devastating global pandemic. In The Future; a digital zine that gathers individuals’, groups’, and collectives’ finished work to be encapsulated into one digital platform. We envision multimedia works that collectively respond to the question: How do you reclaim the collective sensory experiences that will tell the story of your community?
- Have a big idea? This $25,000 fellowship is an opportunity for landscape architecture professionals to dedicate the equivalent of 3 months’ time over the course of one year to a proposed project that brings about positive change and expands the discipline's impact. LAF is now accepting applications for the 2022-2023 LAF Fellowship.
- The Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo – The State University of New York (SUNY) is seeking applications for full-time, tenure-track assistant or associate professors. The search is open to scholarly and teaching expertise within the building sciences, social sciences and humanities, design, pedagogy, and other specialized areas in the discipline and practice of architecture. The department is particularly interested in candidates with a trajectory of work that addresses the long-term consequences of systemic inequality in the built environment – such as racial, gender, economic, and other disparities resulting from colonial history, public policies, use of land and other resources, and building practices. Candidates’ work may be scholarly and/or pedagogical in focus.
- DCDC is seeking recent graduates with a background in landscape architecture, urban design and/or architecture. The PID Fellow will be an integral part of the DCDC team, working directly with community stakeholders on architecture, urban design and/or landscape architecture projects. Applicants should be interested in working collaboratively with community stakeholders and other project partners, and experience with and/or exposure to community design is a plus. Full details linked.
- In this third volume, we are seeking contributions that examine the past, present and future impacts that this ‘youthful’ statistic has on the built environment, both ‘at home’ on the African continent, and more broadly in the African Diaspora.
- Your 300-word abstract should be sent to folio@africanfuturesinstitute.com by 30 October 2021.
- The Mellon Fellowships are intended to expand significantly the opportunities offered by the institution to study the history and future of urban landscapes through the lenses of democracy, race, identity, and difference. To further this work Dumbarton Oaks is offering Urban Landscape Fellowships. We seek candidates with a demonstrated capacity for cross-disciplinary scholarship and/or teaching. Preference will be given to candidates with final degrees such as a PhD or MLA.
- We are seeking scholars engaged in narratives and counternarratives of remembering, studying, and stewarding the legacy of civil rights histories and their place-narratives in the United States. Summer Fellowships will be awarded for the summer term (June 13 to August 5, 2022). During this time, recipients are expected to be in residence at Dumbarton Oaks and to devote themselves full-time to their research projects without undertaking other major activities.
- The College of Built Environments (CBE) at the University of Washington - Seattle campus (UW) invites nominations and applications for five full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor appointments within the departments of Architecture, Construction Management, Landscape Architecture, Real Estate, Urban Design & Planning. These positions have a nine-month service period, September 16 - June 15 annually, and are anticipated to start September 2022.
- Join Artist-in-Residence Yuko Okabe (she/they) for this Youth Artist Project (YAP) exploring illustration, storytelling, community, equity, and belonging.
- We will deliver art materials to you, and there is a stipend for participation! Sessions are afterschool, 4:00-6:00PM and will take place virtually on Mondays and in-person on Tuesdays through local field trips in Boston.*
- As New York City continues to struggle with the direct and follow-on effects of the last year, we call on architects, writers and artists to hold the built environment accountable and help reimagine the city as we collectively move forward into the “new normal,” with the inaugural New York Review of Architecture ESSAY CONTEST. Thanks to the help of a sponsor, we can offer the winner $600, the runner-up $400, and both will be commissioned to write a review or a visual essay for upcoming print issues. Both winners will work with NYRA’s editorial team to develop their pieces.
- The Race and Ethnicity Cluster Hire Initiative at Washington University in St. Louis aims to build a world-class research program on race and diversity scholarship. As part of this initiative, the College of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the Departments of Anthropology and Biology in Arts & Sciences seek colleagues to fill three tenure-track faculty positions at the Assistant Professor level (i.e., one each in Anthropology, Architecture, and Biology) as part of a multidisciplinary cluster hire focused on environmental justice.
- The Avery Review is launching its first annual open call for editors. Over the last several years (but especially since summer 2020), we’ve been thinking a lot about how we edit—evaluating not only our collective editorial practice but also our institutional attachments. Accordingly, before we begin another year of critical writing about and around architecture, the journal is restructuring its masthead. The Avery Review is currently seeking applications for up to two contributing editors and two editors at large.
- Bard College invites applications for its inaugural Architecture Teaching Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded biennially to an emerging architect, urban designer, landscape architect or other spatial practitioner whose creative work mobilizes a culture that attends to societal concerns and spatial justice.
- CRIT Scholar is a research-based fellowship program funded by the AIA in partnership with several prominent architecture firms. The program aims to support student research and serves as an exclusive opportunity for students to receive further guidance in their own research.
- The program is targeted towards students passionate about architectural research. Each CRIT Scholar will receive a $1,000 grant to fund their research. In addition, they will be personally matched with an architect advisor who is specialized in their topic area of research. Mentors will be from firms, such as Payette, HKS Architects, and Sasaki. Applicants do not need to have a completed project in order to apply and proposals in various stages of research will be reviewed. Those interested in applying must be an active AIAS member.
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona invites applications for a tenure track faculty position in the Department of Landscape Architecture.
- Poetic Justice is a research group in Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab within the School of Architecture and Planning of Architecture. They’re now accepting applications for their funded graduate program for the fall 2022 semester.
- We wish to invite you and your friends to write a manifesto of no more than 1000 words laying out your vision for the just city. The manifesto should be written in groups of between 3 and 5 students from any discipline related to the built environment (spatial planning, urban geography, design, architecture, landscape design, engineering, etc.) The manifesto can be written in any language, as long as a good English translation is provided by the participants. The manifesto can also be illustrated (remember, images and text are complementary). We will only accept original pictures, drawings or illustrations produced by the participants (please, be mindful of copyrights!).
- The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture (SSA) at The City College of New York (CCNY) seeks an experienced, creative leader and collegial partner to serve as Dean, the administrative and academic head of the school, including programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and sustainability in the urban environment, and our applied research center, the J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures.
- The University of Oregon in Eugene and Portland, Oregon invites applications for Visiting Faculty Fellowships in Design for Spatial Justice at the rank of assistant, associate, full, or professor of practice in the areas of architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture and historic preservation in the School of Architecture & Environment in the College of Design. The School of Architecture & Environment will award up to six faculty fellowships in design/research and teaching for durations of two terms to three years, to start as early as September 2021. Each fellow will be expected to teach one or two courses per quarter (five courses per year) and to contribute to scholarship and public programming.
- Who is Eligible: Applicants must be current public high school seniors who plan to enroll at a college or university to major in architecture OR Current college freshman enrolled at a NAAB accredited School of Architecture in the United States. The second year of the scholarship funding is dependent on demonstrated successful completion of the student’s first year.
- Scholarship Amount: $1,500
- Paid Internship: The scholarship recipient will receive a one week, paid internship at Bergmeyer located in Boston, Massachusetts during the summer of 2022.
- Full-time students pursuing degrees in Architecture or Design at approved accredited 5-year or 4+1 programs in Northern California, Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, and Washington are eligible to apply.
- The WRNS Studio Foundation scholarship and advisory program seeks to cultivate a thriving higher education scholarship program that will encourage more Black students to pursue careers in Architecture, by providing multi-year educational financial support and enhanced access to enduring professional relationships.
- The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), alongside its Minority Scholars, Asian American & Diasporic Architectural History, and Race & Architectural History Affiliate Groups, invite applications for a 2022 SAH annual conference undergraduate and graduate student fellowship as a step toward increasing the racial diversity of SAH and the field of architectural history.
- Each fellowship includes a one-time award of $5,000 and an individually tailored commitment of mentorship and advocacy from the JAE Fellows Advocates.
- Applications are open to architectural educators located anywhere in the world. This Fellowship encourages and is designed to strengthen modes of architectural research that take risks and are not yet well-supported, including work that challenges structural and systemic injustices, that advances new conversations about architectural education/pedagogy, practice, and/or theory, and that engages nontraditional methodologies and presentation methods (including primarily visual work, collectively authored work, documentary work, and other writing genres).
- Walker Warner Architects is a firm in San Francisco, CA specializing in high-end custom residential design. We are pleased to announce our Diversity in Architecture scholarship for architecture students who are members of a population or group whose background and perspectives are historically underrepresented in our field. This Scholarship will be awarded in the amount of $5,000 per year, and is renewable every year that the student remains enrolled in a recognized architecture program, at the firms discretion. Preference will be given to applicants with a personal connection to the Bay Area, including previous or current residence in the Bay Area, or enrollment at a Bay Area school.
- The Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities is an interdisciplinary program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that combines the efforts of a diverse group of faculty, programs, and schools to develop a dynamic understanding of urban issues past, present, and future. Its theme, Cities on the Edge, encompass several interrelated concepts, including the juncture of built/natural environmental studies, center/periphery, hemispheric comparatives, migration, New Jersey urbanism, social justice, the humanities as a force of change, and the margin as a place of radical possibility.
- The Architects Foundation’s Large Firm Roundtable (LFRT) ARE Scholarship helps fulfill the LFRT’s goal to double the number of licensed Black architects by 2030. The scholarship defrays the costs associated with the Architect Registration Examination (ARE), provides a one-year subscription to ArchiPrep and covers one year of Associate AIA or NOMA member dues.
- Eligibility: Black students enrolled at a U.S. not-for-profit educational institution who will begin their final year of a NAAB-accredited architecture program in the Fall of 2022 are eligible to apply.*
- Awards: (5) $10,000 Tuition Scholarships
- Eligibility: Black students enrolled at a U.S. not-for-profit educational institution who will be in an architecture program in the Fall of 2022 are eligible to apply.*
- Awards: (10) Micro-scholarships of various amounts ranging from $1,000 to $2,500
- The Africatown International Design Idea Competition leverages the spectacular Clotilda find to give multi-disciplinary design teams a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to imagine a revived Africatown, with 16 land and water-edged venues on 4 sites across 3 cities that interpret and honor its history.
- The Practice Grant seeks to open access and expand approaches to landscape architecture and design by funding individuals and groups committed to alternative practices. Grants are awarded to applicants working to develop land-based* practices and is offered in support of applied research and realized projects.
- The Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) is seeking a visionary Collaborative Coordinator to assist the next phase of development and work collaboratively with the ten founding board members to transition from a founding board to governing board to achieve the BRC’s mission.
- Design Trust Chicago is seeking a thoughtful and enthusiastic community designer committed to equitable design and supporting community aspirations and visions.
- The prize is a unique collaboration between the Society of Architectural Historians and Places Journal. The successful applicant will propose an original work of public scholarship that considers the history of race and the built environment through a contemporary lens. The inaugural prize will address the theme of settler colonialisms, broadly considered.
- Organised by the Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana; African Futures Institute and the African State Architecture Project, SOAS, University of London
- 3 day long workshop from 17—20 September 2022, aimed at scholars working on architecture and/or international relations in Africa. Participants will have opportunities to present draft papers in small-group discussions and to further develop their thinking through reading others’ work, architectural site visits around Accra and networking with architects and political scholars.
- In partnership with the AIA Large Firm Roundtable (LFRT), the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) is proud to announce the fourth cohort of the NOMA Foundation Fellowship. Cohort 4 will be an 8-week internship that will match students and recent graduates with top architecture firms across the country. Students from all schools may apply.
- This Special issue welcomes research that contributes to sharpening the understanding of oppression in design and increasing the solidarity between the different struggles for liberation that cut across design. Contributions can include theoretical or methodological essays, ethnographic accounts, case studies, or visual papers that interrogate and challenge oppression in design.
- The ASLA Fund has launched the Women of Color Licensure Advancement Program to support women of color in their pursuit of landscape architecture licensure and increase racial and gender diversity within the profession. In its inaugural year, the program will provide 10 women of color with a two-year, personalized experience that includes up to $3,500 to cover the cost of sections of the Landscape Architectural Registration Exam (LARE), along with exam preparation courses, resources, and mentorship from a licensed landscape architect.
- Successful awardees will receive a one-time payment of up to $2,500 towards student loans. The award also provides recipients with free enrollment in AIANY’s ARE Prep Courses and the opportunity to meet quarterly with an AIANY Board Mentor who will help recipients navigate the licensure process.
- The 2030 Fund provides student loan debt relief and licensure support for aspiring BIPOC architects pursuing licensure. The fund was created by AIANY in recognition of the unique challenges faced by young BIPOC professionals in pursuing licensure. Mirroring the ambitions of NOMA’s 2030 Diversity Challenge, which calls for the doubling of licensed Black architects by 2030, the 2030 Fund seeks to help diversify the profession through financial support of BIPOC architects in training.
- Design Futures seeks an individual or team for an Executive Leadership role to lead the organization into its next stage of development. We are seeking someone with skills and experience in community-engaged design, education, fundraising, and nonprofit operations as well as a deep commitment to racial justice and equity, for a half-time position, beginning in July 2022.
- The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is launching a new fellowship program that invites and supports up-and-coming designers, practitioners, planners, spatial activists, advocates, historians, and other academics outside the CUNY system in their research in architecture, landscape architecture, sustainability, or urban design.
- Two Spitzer Fellows, each supported by a stipend of $60,000, are expected to be in residency at the Spitzer School for the academic year, and to participate in the Spitzer School’s rich culture by giving a public lecture each semester, participating in reviews, and in other ways sharing the Fellow’s research findings with the Spitzer community. The Spitzer School will provide an office and credentials that give access to libraries and archives at CCNY and across the CUNY system. No teaching is permitted during the fellowship period. Health insurance, and supplemental funds, up to $10,000, are available, to purchase materials, organize a symposium, and so forth.
- Community Education Program Assistant: CUP is seeking a full-time assistant to provide general project, organizational, and administrative support for our Community Education programs.
- Youth Education Program Coordinator: CUP is seeking a full-time coordinator to support our civically-engaged arts education programs for high school students.
- Director of Operations and Development: CUP is seeking a Director of Operations and Development to manage and develop our financial and administrative operations, including fundraising, budgeting, people and culture, facilities, and information technology.
- Pratt & Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) conference
- conference will convene between November 17-19, 2022 @ Pratt Institute
- Design for Civic Change is a professional development program for government workers interested in implementing community-engaged design within their work. During this program, participants will learn about effective community engagement and anti-oppressive facilitation from CUP and other leaders in the community-engaged design field. Participants will get peer feedback and one-on-one coaching as they implement a community-engaged design project, and build a community of practitioners to support ongoing work in the field.
- Critical Design Lab is accepting applications for new members for 2022-2023. All new members will be working on the Remote Access archive. Lab members will work collaboratively with Dr. Aimi Hamraie to conduct literature reviews, recruit participants via social media and other networks, collect data for the archive, communicate with contributors to the archive, organize archival data into a presentable online format, and help organize events. This is a paid and remote opportunity to do research and work with a collective of other researchers. It is part time. Exact pay is commensurate with the parts of the project you work on, your skill and experience with those tasks, and how much you are available to work on the archive. Typically, lab members will work 5-10 hours per week (depending on role). We endeavor to keep things flexible.
- Theme Editors: V. Mitch McEwen, Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski
- Reparations! invites architectural design proposals, speculative studies, and scholarly research addressing reparations in the built and destroyed environment. As architecture gives shape to asymmetrical effects on the environment, we ask how reparations look, operate, and affect Black and Indigenous communities, and what the potential effects are upon the state of architectural education and practice.
Please feel free to share this document with other folks who are trying to mobilize. If you would like to suggest additional resources to be added, please let us know at bz@spaceindustri.es. As there are many incredible resources already available, we are looking to amplify specific actions and resources for those in the design disciplines - thanks!
In solidarity with you, SPACE INDUSTRIES x ELL x Design As Protest Collective.