Selected Projects
Storia: Defrag House
New Orleans: The Defrag House will be a flexible, interactive installation piece that will explore housing conditions and issues in New Orleans.
C.B.S.E.
Portland: The Center for Black Student Excellence is a community initiated project to imagine a Place, Approach, and School System Redesign that centers Black youth.
Claiborne Innovation District
New Orleans: A plan for a 19-Block transformation of space beneath the elevated I-10 expressway along Claiborne Avenue as a site for the residents of the Claiborne Corridor
Paper Machine
New Orleans: An experimental creative agency that specializes in human-centered design and arts-forward projects to improve the livability of public spaces
Blights Out
New Orleans: A collective of artists, activists, and architects whose mission is to generate dialogue, art, and action that challenge inequitable development and drive land use policy in New Orleans
Storia: Delta
New Orleans: This outdoor space will talk about histories of land use and environmental conditions and the consequences of climate change for that land and the people that live on it.
Jefferson HS Modernization
Portland: A modernization project for Portland’s only historically Black high school where intensive community organizing informs design decisions at this cultural hub.
Nature in Neighborhoods
Portland: A participatory budgeting process with Metro parks and recreation Community Choice Grants to ideate and develop with community the nature and park projects they want to see.
PCC Metro Center
Portland: The Portland Community College (PCC) Metro Center is a workforce training center in Portland, OR that will be an anchor for the community in Northeast Portland’s racially diverse Cully neighborhood.
Organizing Design Justice
Design as Protest: A platform for the dismantling of the privilege and power structures that use the design profession to maintain systems of injustice
Storia: Djembe
New Orleans: The pavilion will serve as a gathering space for the local communities. It is meant to be a place for connection, placemaking, and cultural exchange.
Midland Library
Portland: A 30,000 sf renovation and addition provides public space and resources for residents to gather and thrive. The design weaves together the stories and lived experiences of Midland Library’s diverse communities in a shared communal space.
Paper Monuments
New Orleans: A public art and public history project designed to elevate the voices of the people of New Orleans, as a critical process towards creating new narratives and symbols of our city
Launch K-12 School
New York: In a National Park in the middle of New York City, LAUNCH at Floyd Bennett Field is a unique partnership of exceptional organizations building a transformative education ecosystem in Brooklyn on 1,000 acres of dynamic, flexible space.
Abolitionist Spaces
New Orleans: The Abolitionist Spaces project engages youth and adults in assessing and re-imagining our built environments to be more inclusive. The aim of this initiative is to facilitate new community-centered insights and inspire designs that foster joy, safety, and equity and will culminate in a digital publication.