This course unpacks racist ideologies and practices found in the architecture profession and re-contextualizes the power structures in place to create equitable environments.

Typically, architects approach a problem via parameters of design needs without including parameters of injustice and oppression – what if we reversed that practice? DCo will walk your company through our design justice process using our 3 C’s [Challenge, Collaborate, Create] to develop an understanding of how to create safe and sacred space.

Workshop 1: Racialized Architecture Competency

Team members will be challenged to participate in a workshop that develops their understanding of how existing power structures inhibit how marginalized identities experience design.

Workshop 2: Design & Spatial Justice Practices

Through the examination of design justice principles, the staff will collaboratively generate interventions that prioritize anti-racism policy in the design process.

Workshop 3: Creating Sustainable Futures

Combines the best efforts of leadership and staff to develop metrics to achieve design justice principles in the practice.

This course is the foundation of a three part series called Designing With Action which prepares organizations to build their practices to prioritize justice & liberation in their work.

This recorded video/audio course will equip your organization with the tools and vocabulary necessary to begin dismantling systems of oppression within your practice & work. The course is centered on the concept of Racialized Space and how it manifests itself throughout history in the architectural profession. See the video below for a sample from the course.

Topics covered in this presentation include:

• Imperialism
• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
• White Supremacy
• White Idealism in Architectural History
• Racism within our Institutions
• Gentrification
• Segregation
• Anti-Racist Policies
• Decolonizing Space
• Spatial Justice
• Design Justice