anti-racism + design justice resources
in Palestinian solidarity (2023) + signatures // open letter (2020) + signatures
share your story //fill out our survey // accountability // ARC resources // Free Palestine resources
Referenced Open Letters
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Towards a New RSID
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Letter to DFALD
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SALA’s Statement: Support for BLM
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Letter to Dalhousie University School of Architecture
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Open Letter to the YSoA
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Notes on Credibility, Harvard
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Design Justice Actions for Taubman College
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Open Letter to the Weitzman School of Design
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Letter to Pratt
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RSA Call to Action
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BAIDA letter to OAA
Tools
- Anti-Racist Design Resources by: Design as Protest
- Dark Matter University: Anti-Racist Design Justice School
- Make Space for Indigeneity: Decolonizing Education bu SELU
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
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Policy + Guidelines on Racism + Racial Discrimination (ON)
- Assigning students research on social movements and marginalized groups by Craig Fortier
- Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization
- Freedom to Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in Our Communities by The Center for Popular Democracy, Law for Black Lives, and the Black Youth Project 100
Student Advocacy Groups, Initiatives, and Organizations to Follow
- The Ryerson FCAD Black Students’ Association @fcadbsa
- RSID Course Union @rsid_course_union
- Where is Dal Arch? - Dalhousie University @whereisdalarch
- Race | Space - McGill University @race.space.arch
- Diversity Working Group - Carleton University @dwg.asau
- Student Equity Alliance - University of Toronto @sea.daniels
- Treaty Lands, Global University - University of Waterloo @treatylands.globalstories
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Indigenous Design and Planning Student Association - University of Manitoba @um.idpsa
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Advocates for Equitable Design Education - University of Calgary @equityindesigneducation
- UBC NOMAS Chapter - University of British Columbia @ubcnomas
Breaking Foundations Event Summary - A cross-institutional roundtable about ongoing movements for equity and justice in design education
- The Toronto Chapter of The Architecture Lobby @arch_lobby_to
- BAIDA @baida.to
- BEAToronto @beat_to
- Design As Protest @designasprotest
- Dark Matter University @darkmatter_u
- BeyondtheBuiltEnvironment @beyondthebuilt
- Anonymous Open Mic - sharing stories of social injustice in architecture & design @openmicoroject
- Arch So White – Visualizing racial inequality in Architecture. Data from publicly available resources @archsowhite
- POC Architecture @poc_arch
- For a Feminist Architecture @forafeministarchitecture