The Anti-Racist School of Architecture Symposium 2021
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The Architectural Initiative for Diversity (AID) will be kicking off The Anti-Racist School of Architecture Virtual Symposium 2021 with a discussion on "Justice & the Creator God" on Saturday the 16th while the main day will be the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Monday, January 18.
The Anti-Racist School of Architecture Symposium 2021 will shine a spotlight on the intersection of architecture, race, and education. The Symposium aims to address the following topics:
Injustices Black, Indigenous, and People of Color face in the architecture and design education system
Antiracism by design discussions on social justice and our roles as design students and professionals
The global perspective of Architecture, Race, and Education
Explore what an anti-racism university looks like to students and professionals across the world
Symposium Goals:
To create better understanding and communication about race within our design community of students, alumni, and working professionals
Explore how we can create an anti-racist environment in schools and workplaces that help us become more inclusive and equitable architects, designers, planners, and future built environment professionals
The symposium will be a full day of interactive and engaging keynotes, panel discussions, workshops, and networking.
The symposium has grown out of conversations in 2020 by governments, companies, and individuals discussing racial justice – also an issue faced by schools of architecture around the country and world. Many schools wrote open letters to their administrations in a quest to tackle these concerns head-on. These open letters were the springboard to discuss the intersection of architecture, race, and education in a free virtual symposium, open to the public.
The schedule of events can be downloaded here.
