SIGN THE DESIGN JUSTICE DEMANDS
01 Divest & Reallocate Police Funding
02 Cease Implementation of Hostile Design
03 Abolish Carceral Spaces
04 Restructure Relationship to Power & Capital
05 Center Community Leadership
06 Create, Protect, Reclaim Public Space
07 Cultivate Visions for Just Neighborhoods
08 Preserve and Invest Cultural Spaces
09 Create Anti-Racist Models
10 Return Land, Wealth, and Access to Indigenous and Black Communities
11 Protect and Restore Water Sovereignty
12 Fight Dirty Energy & Support a Just Transition
Sign the Design Justice Demands
The protests you see across America are a response to a prolonged dehumanization of a people unwilling to be participants in their own demise.
The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery may have sparked the most recent calls to stop killing black people, but it is a story as old as this nation. It is often the soft power of the built environment that provides the preconditions for that dehumanization and the subsequent atrocities. Our obligation to each other, to the built environment, and in solidarity with black lives is to hold all complicit actors in these systems accountable, including organizations, schools, industry leaders, and legislative bodies.
Design professions are as complicit as any. In accordance with our values and in defense of black lives, we welcome you to join us in this pursuit of systemic justice.