This CEU Webinar is available to Professional Living Future Members. Many of us understand that the built environment profoundly shapes whether we feel safe, cared for, and that we belong. But it’s one thing to recognize that relationship, and another to effectively leverage that knowledge to design and develop projects that dismantle harmful ideologies, heal communities, and empower people. For our third and final Equity in the Built Environment webinar, we welcome Karim Hassanein and Katherine Marple of Colloqate Design to share their pragmatic yet paradigm-shifting approach to design justice. Together, we’ll explore what it means to be oriented toward liberation and how to identify and advocate for practices, policies, and pedagogies that genuinely advance equity and support community needs. We’ll work through a practice exercise together, and you’ll leave with concrete tools and resources to implement in your own projects. We hope you’ll join us for this important finale to our webinar series, and close out the year by reaffirming your power not just as a built environment practitioner, but as a community member yourself.

Speakers

• Karim Hassanein (they/them) | Principal, Director of Storytelling, Colloqate Design • Katherine Marple | Architectural Designer and Facilitator, Colloqate Design

Learning Objectives

• Identify the pedagogies, practices, and policies that impact projects that built environment professionals work on • Enable more equitable, just, or liberatory use of space by recognizing the impact of practice, policy, and pedagogy on the spaces built environment professionals create, and understand ways we might advocate for practices that better support community needs • Identify ways that social, cultural, racial, and physical space intersect in order to more holistically serve diverse communities who have not historically been reflected in design • Create more equitable, just, or liberatory spaces by advocating for timelines and contract structures that enable community voice to be centered in design

CEUs: 1 AIA LU|HSW