Location : Varies

Client: Varies

Year : Ongoing

Status: Ongoing

Collaborators: Varies

Colloqate is committed to the ongoing organizing of design workshops, events, and summits, towards the goal of deepening the networks of designers working for racial, social, and cultural equity. These events offer chances for architects, artists, planners, designers, activists, and organizers to connect and create new visions for a just future, linking oppressive power structures to their manifestations in the built environment. Colloqate runs workshops for professionals and students alike, and has partnered with universities, professional organizations, private design firms, and non-profits to host these workshops. If this sounds like something your organization would be interested in, please get in touch with us at info@colloqate.org.

Workshops + Events

The Design Justice Platform (DJP)

The DJP is a living document developed to establish a socially and environmentally just code of ethics for operating as designers of the built environment. Through this platform, we acknowledge our role and responsibility in creating spaces of racial, cultural, and class equity. Through this platform we will organize, advocate, develop, and act to foster on a principled movement for a socially just profession. The DJP collects concerns and hopes for the future given the challenges our profession faces during the new administration and beyond.

Design as Protest (DAP)

The DAP is the organized action of the DJP in a series of workshops encompassing activism and design, advocating for social justice in the built environment. The base impetus for the workshops is to put into play the difficult conversations that define the injustices of our society. Ideas that are rendered and generated will be put into a public dialogue through new intervention models, such as billlboards, wheatpaste posters, and yard signs, but in addition, the concepts will be added to a visual compendium of ideas for activists, designers, and artists.

Design Justice Workshops

Design Justice workshops and training serve to make clear the connections between oppressive power structures and how they make themselves felt in the architecture, planning, and design of the spaces around us. In these workshops, those connections are identified and participants are guided towards developing designs that reverse those injustices.

Design Justice Summit

Twenty-four social impact architects, designers, and planners gathered in the fall of 2018 at the AIA Design Justice Summit. Working together, these advocates strove to develop realistic solutions that create innovative, progressive change and achieve design equity in communities of any size.