Follow Up: New Grounds for Design Education
Hello,
You are receiving this email because you registered for New Grounds for Design Education event, co-sponsored by the New York Review of Architecture and the Architectural League NY. Thank you for your interest in anti-racist transformation of design education and practice, in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
The New York Review of Architecture has handed over this platform to the organizers on the discussion panel. We will continue to provide updates and progress until our follow up discussion later this fall.
We are grateful to the New York Review of Architecture for connecting collaborators and activists calling on our institutions to repair their wrongdoings and commit to a more equitable future.
Thanks to our moderators, Prof. Sandjive Vadiya and Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, for your questions and insights, through which we learned to link our endeavors to previous and concurrent movements. It was empowering to hold space and share our experiences as individuals and affiliates of our respective institutions. As the season turns and students return to universities, we will continue to support their demands for self-determination and radical change in our institutions.
As a part of our next steps, we’d like to direct your attention towards a few ongoing efforts:
Emergent Grounds for Design Education
(formerly, the Alumni Collective in Solidarity)
Updates will be provided to this substack with the title Emergent Grounds for Design Education. This name reflects the historical truth that demands for justice and equity in design education are not new but deeply rooted, and that our success will come through decentralized, networked organizing that author adrienne maree brown defines as ‘emergence’. Read more about emergence here.
EGDE absorbs the group previously called the “Alumni Collective in Solidarity,” a coalition of organizers with the long-term goal of drafting a new standard for design pedagogy and subsequent actions to implement them. If you're engaging in similar actions or interested in learning more about ours, use this form to get in touch or email us at emergentgrounds.edu@gmail.com.
It has been two months since the eruption of protests against the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and too many others. We are at a critical juncture. It is essential that we focus on the long term, and that students, alumni, faculty, and administration work together to transform our institutions and hold them accountable.
Black Lives Matter.
My-Anh Nguyen
Core Facilitator | Emergent Grounds for Design Education | UVa Call to Action