Design As Protest

Mobilizing our collective power to confront the violence and injustices of architecture, landscape architecture, design, and urban planning practices.

[Harvard GSD Black in Design Conference @gsd_bid]

The Black in Design 2023 Committee has opened up a Request For Proposals form for workshops! Click the link in bio to learn more about the workshops themes and RFP submission process. RFPs due July 21, 2023!

#bidconference2023 #BiD2023 #blackhome2023 #GSDAASU @harvardgsd

[Harvard GSD Black in Design Conference @gsd_bid]

SAVE THE DATE: September 22 – 24, 2023!

The BiD Conference is back! This year’s theme, The Black Home, explores the Black home’s multidimensionality — as a literal structure that shelters, as a reflection of culture and traditions, and as spaces that are not entirely physical.

[Karen Kubey @KarenKubey]

Collective mural to close out the Design Justice Summit in New Orleans!

@designasprotest

#designjusticesummit23 #designasprotest #darkmatteru
#housingisaright

[✨Swizzy ✨ Legally: Colón 📝 @JC_Cali]

"When were talking about radical, we don't mean the [polarized extremes], but deeper and deeper, from the root word radish... for the communities we serve"
- @BCLeeJr
#designjusticesummit @designasprotest

[Failed Architecture @FailedArch]

Follow @justicehealing, @TexasCJE, @IL_ARJ, @lionessjiwa, @thecouncilus, and @designasprotest to learn more about how to support community organizers and stop the building of prisons! Full statement of demands at https://t.co/tjvsvA8J3v.

[Failed Architecture @FailedArch]

Link to podcast here: https://t.co/RPKXUiwPvK

[Failed Architecture @FailedArch]

Editor christin hu chats with community organizers Maggie, Avalon, and Sashi about their recent action at @HDR_Inc, and reasons why architects should refuse to take part in the building of prisons. #FreeHer #ReimaginingCommunities #NoNewJails

[Design As Protest @designasprotest]

There is no such thing as trauma-informed prison! Join the campaign to call on @HDR_Inc to stop designing prisons.

Visit https://t.co/W6ol47YCq3 for actions!

#NoNewWomensPrison #A22Con #NoNewPrisons #designasprotest

[Design As Protest @designasprotest]

It’s that time of year again! We hope to see you on Saturday, June 25th, 11am PT|12pm MT|1pm CT|2pm ET for our 4th National Call!
Registration at https://t.co/Mz3cNedZ1k
#designasprotest #activism #designjustice #dapcollective #design

[Chris Daemmrich @SoDaemmGood]

At the same time for the past two years we’ve been in an design organizational ecosystem where @designasprotest and @darkmatter_u members organize against hegemonic White supremacy in arch+in society. These people have been around for much more than 2 yes doing this work btw 8/

[A.L. @a_l_hu]

CHICAGO! Come through during your lunch break - many spots available! Visit the exhibition in the gallery, learn about @designasprotest, and make zines with us!

Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 South Wabash Avenue

Fri, April 15, 2022
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM CDT

https://t.co/NyPzTpDCJ5

[Bryan Lee Jr @BCLeeJr]

I heard #DAP was trending today…we don’t have the sweatshirt you want but we have a gallery show up in the #Chi

[blacklanetwork @blacklanetwork]

ONE WEEK TO GO!!! GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! https://t.co/FQwNggPCiW!

[Bryan Lee Jr @BCLeeJr]

Check out and support First 500! We will be talking architecture, DAP and more

[Design As Protest @designasprotest]

Congrats @darkmatter_u !

[Justin Garrett Moore @jgmoore]

.@ColumbiaGSAPP announces the recipients of the Anti-Racism Curriculum Development Awards and Dean’s Unlearning Whiteness Awards, each designed to support to faculty in advancing the field through research in anti-racist pedagogy, scholarship, & practice. https://t.co/kbV65TEpzB

[Design As Protest @designasprotest]

We are having our annual DAP Retreat next weekend and would love for you to come! All DAP Organizers (anyone who has been through onboarding) are welcome to come back and help us realign for the new year.

We would love to see you!

[Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle_zoe]

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.”

bell hooks' Teaching to Transgress is one of the most impactful books I've ever read. She deeply influenced and instigated a generation of women of color. May she rest in power.

[A.L. @a_l_hu]

If 2021 was about using different metrics for success, 2022 is about taking ACTION @EquityxDesign @designasprotest

[Complex @Complex]

Rest in Power, Virgil 🕊 Your legacy will live on forever.

Virgil has been privately battling a rare form of cancer called cardiac angiosarcoma for over two years.

Sending our love and prayers to his family. 🤍