Anti-Racist Spatial Practices: Approaches and Challenges

The RWU Public Humanities and Arts Collaborative (The Co-Lab) is sponsoring a four-part series on anti-racist community engagement in Spring 2024 featuring four of the editors for the recently released book Anti-Racist Community Engagement.

Joseph Krupczynski, Professor of Architecture and Director, Office of Civic Engagement and Service-Learning, University of Massachusetts Amherst
March 27 @ 6:00 pm - Presented with the Cumming School of Architecture Lecture Series
ARCH 132

In the recently published book, Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices, the authors examine how anti-racist community engagement can counteract racism's destructive legacy and impacts in the United States. Based on the book's key principles, this presentation explores approaches and challenges associated with building anti-racist spatial practices in community-engaged architecture. Through acknowledging, analyzing, and critiquing harmful historic and contemporary racialized spatial practices, these approaches can better support the creation of spaces and places that embrace freedom, cooperation, solidarity, and spatial justice.