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Designing a More Just Built Environment
In the first of two conversations, Taylor, Kiki and Matt explore the practice of design justice in the built environment - and the sheer variety of forms design justice can take in reality. Taylor and Kiki share the origins of the Design as Protest Collective (DAP) as a group of anti-racist designers, its policy demands for a more just built environment, and how DAP is working to organize designers of all stripes from the grassroots to make the profession a more just one. Taylor and Kiki share what design justice means to them. They share their own journeys in the design profession, what brought them to DAP's work, and what excites them moving forward. They also share the range of initiatives DAP is supporting to reform the design profession from direct action to policy analysis and how aspiring designers are educated.
Resources References:
- DAP Collective's Design Justice Demands
- DAP's Resource Page
- Bit.ly to join DAP
- DAP's Instagram
- DAP's Twitter
Bios:
Taylor Holloway is a designer, architect, and social impact strategist that uses design-driven processes to promote equity in the built environment. As a biracial woman, first generation college graduate, and individual who has experienced the U.S. foster care system, issues of creative voice, belonging, and healing are personal to Taylor. Her organization, Public Design Agency, works with schools, organizing, youth, and even regular people, to harness creativity and civic engagement in new and radical ways. Taylor is also an AIA Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholar, a 2019 Association for Community Design Fellow, 2020 NextCity Vanguard, and one of the co-founders of the Design As Protest Collective -- also known as DAP. Check out her work at yayforpda.com.
Kiki Cooper earned a B.A. in Landscape Architecture from The Pennsylvania State University and currently works in Brookline, MA at Verdant Landscape Architecture. Kiki is an active member of the ASLA Emerging Professionals Committee and is a Design as Protest Core Organizer. During their undergrad and after entering the profession, they developed a myriad of passions that shaped their core design principles rooted in food security, equitable design, community building, and design justice.
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By Matt FulleIn the first of two conversations, Taylor, Kiki and Matt explore the practice of design justice in the built environment - and the sheer variety of forms design justice can take in reality. Taylor and Kiki share the origins of the Design as Protest Collective (DAP) as a group of anti-racist designers, its policy demands for a more just built environment, and how DAP is working to organize designers of all stripes from the grassroots to make the profession a more just one. Taylor and Kiki share what design justice means to them. They share their own journeys in the design profession, what brought them to DAP's work, and what excites them moving forward. They also share the range of initiatives DAP is supporting to reform the design profession from direct action to policy analysis and how aspiring designers are educated.
Resources References:
- DAP Collective's Design Justice Demands
- DAP's Resource Page
- Bit.ly to join DAP
- DAP's Instagram
- DAP's Twitter
Bios:
Taylor Holloway is a designer, architect, and social impact strategist that uses design-driven processes to promote equity in the built environment. As a biracial woman, first generation college graduate, and individual who has experienced the U.S. foster care system, issues of creative voice, belonging, and healing are personal to Taylor. Her organization, Public Design Agency, works with schools, organizing, youth, and even regular people, to harness creativity and civic engagement in new and radical ways. Taylor is also an AIA Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholar, a 2019 Association for Community Design Fellow, 2020 NextCity Vanguard, and one of the co-founders of the Design As Protest Collective -- also known as DAP. Check out her work at yayforpda.com.
Kiki Cooper earned a B.A. in Landscape Architecture from The Pennsylvania State University and currently works in Brookline, MA at Verdant Landscape Architecture. Kiki is an active member of the ASLA Emerging Professionals Committee and is a Design as Protest Core Organizer. During their undergrad and after entering the profession, they developed a myriad of passions that shaped their core design principles rooted in food security, equitable design, community building, and design justice.