RISD Architecture Faculty Conversation 3: Malcolm Rio and Germán Pallares-Avitia

Rhode Island School of Design implemented a campus-wide social equity and inclusion initiative in 2017. In the summer of 2020, in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, RISD students formed risdARC—the RISD anti-racism coalition—organizing and advocating for decolonizing art and design curricula at the college. In the Fall of 2021, RISD Architecture welcomed seven new faculty members with expertise in racial, social, and environmental justice. In this video RISD Architecture, Assistant Professor Malcolm Rio and Social Equity and Inclusion Fellow Germán Pallares discuss racial and social justice in architectural education, the challenges of teaching architectural history through the lens of decoloniality, Germán's podcast on borderization, and Rio's research on ballroom culture.