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  • 1.  Event: How Can Our Cities Speak a More Inclusive Language?

    Posted 06-28-2022 09:28 AM

    Join us on July 7th at 9:00 AM EST for a Roundtable discussion responding to the question, "How Can Our Cities Speak a More Inclusive Language?" For free registration, follow this link.

    The Center for Communities by Design is proud to be a partner this year to an Urban Thinkers Campus as part of the World Urban Campaign led by UNHABITAT. The theme of this event series is 'Language in the City: Re-imagining cities through the lens of Language'. This initiative is led by the Association for Collaborative Design (UK), in partnership with the Community Design Agency (India), The Bio-leadership Project (UK/Spain), the Landscape Institute (UK) and AIA's Center for Communities by Design.

    In today's cities, the built environment often exhibits characteristics that create disproportionate burdens for racial minorities, women, youth, and sexual and gender minorities of all ages and abilities, reinforcing existing inequities with regard to accessibility, mobility, health and safety, resilience and other areas. This reality reflects a history of city design and planning that has largely excluded and disenfranchised racial minorities, women, youth, and sexual and gender minorities. This UTC Roundtable will introduce a dialogue between practitioners on ways to conceptualize the City We Need through more inclusive design and planning lenses, as well as provide comparative case studies/experiences that demonstrate practical applications for participants. The session will include information on resources and guidance for broader community application, challenging participants to put the ideas into use in their own work.

    How Can Our Cities Speak a More Inclusive Language? How can architects contribute? We'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas!





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    Joel Mills
    The American Institute of Architects
    Washington DC
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  • 2.  RE: Event: How Can Our Cities Speak a More Inclusive Language?

    Posted 07-03-2022 11:30 AM


    Join us on July 7th at 9:00 AM EST for a Roundtable discussion responding to the question, "How Can Our Cities Speak a More Inclusive Language?" For free registration, follow this link.

    We are expanding this week's Urban Thinkers Campus with speakers representing 3 continents. The event will now offer simultaneous translation in English/Spanish to allow participants to have dialogue across continents as we discuss Language in the City and answer the question, "How Can Our Cities Speak a More Inclusive Language?"

    We'd love to hear thoughts on this question here as well!


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    Joel Mills
    The American Institute of Architects
    Washington DC
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  • 3.  RE: Event: How Can Our Cities Speak a More Inclusive Language?

    Posted 07-04-2022 01:52 PM

    Speakers for this event include:
    #JaneWong of DSDHA https://lnkd.in/eVi6yw2u
    #DianaParra of Undersecretary of Care and Women's Equality at the Mayoral Office of Bogota/ Subsecretaria de Atención e Igualdad de la Mujer de la Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá
    Natasha Sharma and Bhawna Jaimini of Community Design Agency

    Free Registration: https://lnkd.in/etnRshxJ

    How would you answer this question: How Can Our Cities Speak a More Inclusive Language?

    Let us know here, or join us this week for the discussion!

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    Joel Mills
    The American Institute of Architects
    Washington DC
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  • 4.  RE: Event: How Can Our Cities Speak a More Inclusive Language?

    Posted 07-04-2022 08:51 PM
    What in the world does that mean????!!!





  • 5.  RE: Event: How Can Our Cities Speak a More Inclusive Language?

    Posted 07-04-2022 08:57 PM
    I wish I could join to learn what this is all about. The headline makes no sense whatever, but it has opened my curiosity.
    However, I do not believe that I can join at 6:00 AM Pacific time on the 7Th. Sorry.

    Years ago, in Denmark, Christopher Alexander gave a lecture to the architects there, and was booed out of the room because he proposed splitting the future city into segregated neighborhoods based on cultural differences. I wonder if he were able to say that again, what those architects, or the younger ones might think. I am guessing that the response might be even more negative.

     



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    Roy F. Knight, FAIA, NCARB
    Practitioner, Architecture and Urban Design Consultant
    Knight Associates
    Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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  • 6.  RE: Event: How Can Our Cities Speak a More Inclusive Language?

    Posted 11-01-2022 12:26 PM
    Great question! This presentation from our Launch event describes the perspective in more detail:
    ACD 2022 - WUC - Rosanna Vitiello and Marcus Willcocks - YouTube

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    Joel Mills
    The American Institute of Architects
    Washington DC
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