Project Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Client: Microsoft, Jones Lang Lasalle Inc (JLL)
Date: 2022
Role: Facilitator
About:
This workshop explored various principles and practice of using design to address equitable access, and environments of safety and well-being particularly for communities of color. The session inspired attendees to consider intersectionality in design and what it means to design truly inclusive and empowering spaces. The equitable design and development workshop was a two-hour interactional session that explored critical issues on equity and the built environment through case studies and guiding questions for discussion. Case studies explored were transdisciplinary and multi-scalar in nature and were meant to showcase the opportunities and challenges to a more just practice. The learning objectives of this session included:
• Learning Objective 1: Understanding the concept of design & spatial justice as applied to design strategies at diverse scales
• Learning Objective 2: Articulating the power dynamics inherent in the exercise of design: between experts and non-experts, between owners and end-users, and between organizations and practitioners of color, etc.
• Learning Objective 3: Recognizing disruptive strategies that amplify community voice and empowers design teams to center equity
• Learning Objective 4: Becoming familiar with examples of how public and private organizations have approached issues of intersectionality and inclusion in design
