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The RAIC shares report on co-designing as reconciliation with Indigenous communities

2018-07-16T15:56:00-04:00

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) has created a free, public report as a resource for architects, designers, clients, funders, and policy-makers involved in the creation of new infrastructure facilities and housing in First Nation, Inuit, and other Indigenous communities. The report focuses of four case studies located in Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec which exemplify the best architecture practices of co-designing as reconciliation.

In these four case studies, the community vision was developed through architects engaging in a shared design process in order to address injustices and give agency back to Indigenous people groups. You can read the full RAIC report here.

How America is failing to preserve its historic slave markets

2015-02-13T14:36:00-05:00

It’s easy enough to blame economic forces for the postwar destruction of slave markets, but not for the persistent concealment of their history. One hundred and fifty years after the Civil War, the South has no shortage of memorials to the Lost Cause, while memorials to the slave trade remain few and far between. [...] After the Civil War, Johnson says, “the price of moving forward for the white United States was the forgetting of slavery.”

Apartheid ended 20 years ago, so why is Cape Town still 'a paradise for the few'?

2014-04-30T14:16:00-04:00

The South African city is World Design Capital 2014, yet residents of Khayelitsha township live in cramped, unhygienic conditions. The need for long-promised urban reform is urgent. [...] “Cape Town is a paradise for the minority, but I could hope for a city where everyone has access to the same opportunities that I have,” says Wolff. “Mandela may have postponed revolution – but for how much longer is the question.”