Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Abriannah Aiken & Madelene Dailey
Families’ health, economic, and educational opportunities are all but determined by their neighborhoods. This is by design. Architecture, by excluding communities from the design process, has created inequitable built environments. To address this, the profession must dismantle systems of exclusion by including and empowering underserved communities – truly creating an era of repair. We at Architecture + Advocacy (A+A) have begun dismantling this process through small-scale, locally-empowered design-builds. This justice-centered approach uses community-led design to repair spatial injustice through a) early exposure for youth through community-workshops, b) equipping underrepresented communities with agency to shape their neighborhoods, and c) creating a proof of concept for community-driven design processes that can be scaled-up to the building and policy levels. By focusing on neighborhood-level engagements, we have developed a Reparative Community Engagement Framework that the architecture industry can adopt to un-design exclusive practices, and co-create a more equitable future.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.113.90
Volume Editors
Sara Jensen Carr & Rubén García Rubio
ISBN
978-1-944214-48-7
