Design Justice Book Club
In partnership with bcWORKSHOP and DFW NOMA
Join this free book club for one or all four discussions reviewing books that highlight how architects, designers, and planners can foster universal inclusion and fairness in the built environment within the places and communities we impact, both locally and globally.
BOOK CLUB SCHEDULE
APRIL: Hip Hop Architecture, by Sekou CookeDiscussion: April 6, 2022
JULY: What Can A Body Do?, by Sara Hendren
Discussion (virtual): July 27, 2022
SEPTEMBER: The Accommodation, by Jim Schutze
Discussion: September 13, 2022
DECEMBER: Barrio America, by A.K. Sandoval Strausz
Discussion (virtual): December 7, 2022
Joining is free, but copies of each book are not provided. You can order a copy and support the AD EX, by ordering through Amazon Smile. Go to smile.amazon.com and search for and select Architecture and Design Foundation before making your purchase!
April
Hip-Hop Architecture, by Sekou Cooke
As architecture grapples with its own racist legacy, Hip-Hop Architecture outlines a powerful new manifesto-the voice of the underrepresented, marginalized, and voiceless within the discipline. Exploring the production of spaces, buildings, and urban environments that embody the creative energies in hip-hop, it is a newly expanding design philosophy which sees architecture as a distinct part of hip-hop’s cultural expression, and which uses hip-hop as a lens through which to provoke new architectural ideas.
Book Club Discussion: Hip-Hop Architecture
Wednesday, April 6
5:00 – 6:30 PM
Free, In-Person Event at the AD EX
Join the AD EX, bcWORKSHOP, and DFW NOMA for a discussion of the first selection in the Design Justice Book Club: Hip-Hop Architecture by Sekou Cooke.
July
What Can A Body Do?, by Sara Hendren
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub
A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets—nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be understood as disability, we may never stop to consider—or reconsider—the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built.
Book Club Discussion: What Can A Body Do?
Wednesday, July 27
5:00 – 6:30 PM
Free, Virtual Event
Join the AD EX, bcWORKSHOP, DFW NOMA, and the author, Sara Hendren, for a (virtual) discussion of the second selection in the Design Justice Book Club: What Can A Body Do?