Design for Us, By Us: Activating Community Agency

Join the Community Design Collaborative (Philadelphia) and the Center for Architecture (New York City) for a cross-festival event featuring some of the top voices in community-led design. Bridging Design Philadelphia and Archtober, this panel discussion will highlight prominent design nonprofits in each city to reflect on the more than 50-year legacy of neighborhood design centers and how they are now more needed and relevant than ever. Panelists will examine how design can be used as a tool for systems change, forwarding principles of design justice and cultivating community empowerment and agency. A discussion with the audience will consider community engagement as the standard in all design and planning processes.

There are two ticketing options:

• Online for the Zoom livestream. Please use this link to purchase tickets to the Zoom webinar.
• In-person at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY

Speakers:
Ellen Neises, RLA, Executive Director, PennPraxis
Quilian Riano, Assoc. AIA, Assistant Dean of the Pratt School of Architecture; Founder and Principal, DSGN AGNC
Shawn Rickenbacker, RA, Director, J. Max Bond Center; Associate Professor, The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College of New York
Tya Winn, NOMA, Executive Director, Community Design Collaborative