Anti-Racist designers
dedicated to Design Justice
in the built environment.

 

01

Divest & Reallocate Police Funding

02

Cease the Implementation of Hostile Architecture & Landscapes

03

Abolish Carceral Spaces

04

Restructure Design’s Relationship to Power, Capital & Our Labor

05

Center Community Leadership In Design & Planning Processes

06

Create, Protect & Reclaim Public Space Through Liberatory Planning & Policy

07

Cultivate Anti-Racist Visions for Affordable & Just Neighborhoods

08

Preserve and Invest in Black, Brown, Indigenous & Asian Cultural Spaces

09

Create Anti-Racist Models of Design Education, Training & Licensing

10

Return Land, Wealth, and Access to Indigenous and Black Communities

11

Restore and Protect Water Sovereignty

12

Fight Dirty Energy & Support a Just Transition

Challenge Power. Dismantle Systems. Design a Just World.

 

Design as Protest is a collective of designers mobilizing strategy to dismantle the privilege and power structures that use architecture and design as tools of oppression.

Co-organized by BIPOC designers, we exist to hold our profession accountable in reversing the violence and injustice that architecture, design, and urban planning practices have inflicted upon Black people and communities. Design as Protest champions the radical vision of racial, social, and cultural reparation through the process and outcomes of design.