Urban environments dictate the resources a community can access. When that environment is designed inequitably, it creates cycles of injustices across race, gender, sexuality, and class - from historical redlining to gerrymandering. Planners should work to center community voices and empower community-led design interventions in order to work towards spatial justice.
This presentation dives into community-led design practices, participatory engagement, and how to use planners' power to place design agency into the hands of community change makers. Neighborhood residents are experts in their built environments and centering their voices in the design process can help develop urban-level equitable solutions to wicked problems.
The presentation highlights two community-led design builds in Brooklyn, New York. In both instances, high school students looked at their neighborhood and designed urban-scale changes, from a park bench to a lending library. Discuss how to apply this approach at different scales of planning and how to center community voices throughout all projects within the built environment. Closed Captioning
Learning Objectives:
Understand the systemic spatial injustice embedded within the built environment and how design processes actively play a role in de-centering community agency and advocacy.
Explore participatory design strategies that emphasize how to build power in communities with participants as change makers.
Identify how to navigate community design work through empowering youth and embodying community-led agency in design processes.
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