Breaking the Design Bubble: Community Engagement and Youth Empowerment
The design profession has responded creatively and urgently to climate impacts, but there is more! We must ensure that design responses are socially equitable and tap into the immense knowledge and creativity that communities hold. In addition, expanding the design profession to diversify race/ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic background will enhance the ability to develop holistic and responsive designs. Join us for an interactive session as we unpack barriers and opportunities for community engagement, learn how to uplift voices, explore project examples, and hear how one non-profit empowers diverse youth to build a thriving, just, and equitable future.
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Marina 3-4
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Credit pending for AIA, BOC, BPI, MA CSL, NAHB, NARI, PHI, Phius, and RESNET certification.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify perceived versus actual roadblocks to community engagement and ways to overcome them
- Develop your attention to the lack of diversity within architecture and engineering professions and understand how it inhibits climate justice and equity in the built environment
- Explain how community engagement and diversifying the profession can support creating a vibrant, resilient built environment
- Break down community engagement into action steps that can be implemented in any project
