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Space/Race (Collective Authorship)
Resources on Anti-Racism: Places Reading List (Places Journal)
Race, Space, and Architecture: Huda Tayob in conversation with Frances Richard (Frances Richard)
Architecture, Design, Action: Chris Reed on Dismantling Systemic Racism in Pedagogy and Practice (Alice Bucknell, Interviewer)
Race, Space, and Inequality
Racial Injustice
NOMA’s Public Statement Regarding Racial Injustice (Kimberly Dowdell)
Bryan C. Lee on Design Justice and Architecture’s Role in Systemic Racism (Martin C. Pedersen)
We must work toward an abolitionist future for our world (Rinaldo Walcott)
Five Charts that Show What Systemic Racism Looks Like in Canada (Graham Slaughter)
Policing Black Lives (Robyn Maynard)
The End of Policing (Alex S. Vitale)
Organizations Cannot Afford to Stay Silent on Racial Injustice (Enrica N. Ruggs and Derek R. Avery)
How James Luna Exposed the Mechanisms of American Racism (John Yau)
How Racial Bias in Tech Has Developed the “New Jim Code” (Sarah E. Bond)
Time to Speak Up: Some Necessary Words about Racism (Tracie Jolliff)
A phenomenology of whiteness (Sara Ahmed)
Privilege Afforded to White Journalists (Pacinthe Mattar)
Unlearning the myth of American innocence (Suzy Hansen)
New report shows Canada is one of the worst countries for white supremacy (Becky Robertson)
A Syllabus for Making Work About Race as a White Artist in America (Ryan Wong)
Editorial: Let’s Talk About Race (Elsa Lam)
All Shook Up: The Politics of Cultural Appropriation (Brian Morton)
The Matter of Black Lives (Jelani Cobb)
New CivicAction and BCG report reveals depth of anti-Black racism in Canada
Blackness and the Precarity of Public Safety (Sharine Taylor)
Dr. King’s Revolutionary Dream Against Our Neoliberal/Neofascist Nightmare (Robin D.G. Kelley)
Robin D.G. Kelley and Fred Moten In Conversation (Robin D.G. Kelley and Fred Moten)
The New Normal with Maydianne Andrade to release two-part episode on anti-Black racism
What’s Next: COVID-19 podcast – (Ep. 20) George Floyd (University of Toronto )
This is a Canadian problem, too': U of T's Maydianne Andrade on finding the will to address anti-Black racism (The New Normal podcast with Maydianne Andrade)
Race and Modern Architecture (Columbia GSAPP)
Archinect Sessions #159: On Racial Inequality in AEC, with Karen Compton (Paul Petrunia)
Inequality and the Built Environment
A Call To Explore: Design, Race, and the Built Environment (Harvard University Graduate School Of Design)
Black neighbourhoods in Toronto are hit hardest by COVID-19 — and it’s ‘anchored in racism’: experts (Olivia Bowden and Patrick Cain)
There’s No Reason for an Architect to Design a Death Chamber (Michael Kimmelman)
Decoding Oppression in Architecture: Design as a Tool for Social Justice (Zach Mortice)
What ‘Livability’ Looks Like for Black Women (Brentin Mock)
CMHC Acknowledges Its Role In Forced Resettlement Of Black Canadians (Tara Deschamps)
How systemic racism shaped the history of Canada's swimming pools (Misha Gajewski)
Restricted Clientele! Everyday Racism in Canadian National Parks (Alan MacEachern)
Getting into Hot Water: Racism and Exclusion at Banff National Park (Meg Stanley and Tina Loo)
How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering (Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich)
Race, Space, and Architecture: Huda Tayob in conversation with Frances Richard (Frances Richard)
Places + Fay Jones School Present a Virtual Lecture Series on Equity in the Built Environment (Places Editors)
Introducing Race and Space (The Cultural Landscape Foundation)
Green Gentrification: Race and Class Exclusion in an Urban National Park (Steven High)
White flight, red lining, block busting and panic peddling (Nory Miller)
Architecture Students Win International Design Workshop Grand Prize (Julie Sharkey)
New research reveals the racial, social, and geographic divides of Toronto’s housing crisis (Lisa Ferguson)
History museums launch new program to address lack of representation in stories about Toronto (Jelena Adzic, Muriel Draaisma)
A Necessary Book: Lo–TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism (Grace Mitchell Tada)
Improving Racial Equity Through Greener Design
America’s Cities Were Designed to Oppress (Bryan Lee)
Cities in the Time of COVID-19: How do we respond to anti-Black racism in urbanist practices and conversations? (Jay Pitter)
MOVING TO ACTION: How Do We Respond to Anti-Black Racism in Urbanist Practices and Conversations? (Jay Pitter)
INTERSECTIONALITY MATTERS! (AAPF and Kimberle Crenshaw)
Floodlines (Vann R. Newkirk II)
When Bathurst was Blackhurst: the Black history of Mirvish Village (Nam Kiwanuka)
Solidarity, Anti-Racism, and Healing
Sources of Self-Regard (Deborah Willis)
Seeing Black Futures (Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew)
Artist-Activist Yves B. Golden on Honoring the “Spirit of Black/Trans Resilience” (Camila McHugh)
Frederick Douglass on the Wisdom of the Minority and the Real Meaning of Solidarity (Maria Popova)
U of T program to prioritize healing, wellness and support for Black and racialized community members (Tina Adamopoulos)
The Power of Lo-TEK: A Design Movement to Rebuild Understanding of Indigenous Philosophy and Vernacular Architecture (Julia Watson)
Working Together to Fight Anti-Black Racism: U of T's Anti-Racism and Cultural Diversity Office (Scott Anderson)
Spaces of Black joy: five London-based designers share their visions (Charlene Prempeh)
The Black Reconstruction Collective works to dismantle systemic racism within art, design, and academia (Amrita Raja)
U of T grad Malek Abdel-Shehid passionate about 'Black sense of place, African diaspora and urban planning' (Sean McNeely)
Lead on Diversity and Inclusion With Words and Action (Emily Rabbitt)
Educators And Native Leaders Recommend Bringing Anti-Racism To The Thanksgiving Table (Piper McDaniels)
“Knowledge resides in everybody”: U of T expands, supports access programming (Jenny Rodrigues)
Listen to Indigenous People (Phoebe Lett)
Out of Action, Comes Hope: U of T is stepping up efforts against anti-black racism and moving toward greater inclusion (Raquel A. Russell)
Grace Farms Foundation Launches Design for Freedom Initiative (Madeleine D'Angelo)
BLACK MUSEUMS LAUNCH NEW DIGITAL PLATFORM HONORING JUNETEENTH (Dana Givens)
How Does Change Happen? (Angela Davis)
Webinar series: Race, Social Justice and Allyship (School of Architecture, Rice University)
Converting parking to people space on 75th helps reenergize Black-owned restaurant strip (James Porter)
Legacies of Colonialism and Slavery
Sterling Prize 2020: How Canada changed the definition of genocide while engaging in crimes against Indigenous Peoples (Simon Fraser University)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the Tyranny of Language (Francis Wade)
The Enslavement of Indigenous People in Canada (Bonita Lawrence)
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (UNESCO)
How James Luna Exposed the Mechanisms of American Racism (John Yau)
Canada Day celebrates ongoing colonialism
National Native American Veterans Memorial opens on the National Mall (Matt Hickman)
The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year (Brett Anderson)
Educators And Native Leaders Recommend Bringing Anti-Racism To The Thanksgiving Table (Piper McDaniels)
Listen to Indigenous People (Phoebe Lett)
Steps to End “Colonial Science” Slowly Take Shape (Ashley Yeager)
Where is my buffalo robe? (Crystal Semaganis)
Reflections on Indigeneity in Architectural Education (David Fortin)
Grace Farms Foundation Launches Design for Freedom Initiative (Madeleine D'Angelo)
Somnath Bhatt on intuition, labour, and relinquishing individuality (Alif Ibrahim)
Listen to ‘1619,’ a Podcast From The New York Times (Nikole Hannah-Jones)
Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the Negro? (James Baldwin and William F. Buckley)
Canada's Slavery Secret: The Whitewashing of 200 Years of Enslavement (Kyle G. Brown)
"Home of the Oppressed": Democracy, Slavery and American Civic Architecture (Mabel O. Wilson)
Canada By Treaty: Negotiating Histories (University of Toronto Department of History)
Gender and Sexuality in Design
The Invisible Women: How female architects were erased from history (Eva Álvarez and Carlos Gómez)
What ‘Livability’ Looks Like for Black Women (Brentin Mock)
The Lone Oak in a Pine Forest (Carol Walker)
Women, Space, and Place: Reading List (Amy Murphy, University of Southern California)
Intersectionality: Mapping Out Movements of a Theory (Devon Carbado)
How can we get women to the top in architecture? (Karen Fugle)
Germany agrees ‘historic’ mandatory boardroom quota for women (Simon Goodley)
Multi-talented architect and academic advocate Lesley Lokko is awarded the 2020 RIBA Annie Spink Award (Katherine Guimapang)
Can a Design Process Rooted in Gender Theory Truly Work in Practice? (Madeleine Morley)
Perspectives on Education
General Education
An Official BSA Address AAA The Recent Police Brutality (Black Student's Association)
U of T launches Black Student Application Program to strengthen diversity in medical school (Andrea Concil)
24 Black medical students accepted to U of T Medicine — the most in Canadian history (Meghan Collie)
Keep the Volume Low:' Being Black On Campus In Canada (Laila El Mugammar)
Alleging Racism, Sole Permanently Employed Black Staff Member of Goldsmiths Art Department ‘Withdraws Labor’ (Alex Greenberger)
Whiteness, Power and the Politics of Demographics in the Governance of the Canadian Academy (Genevieve Fuji Johnson and Robert Howsam)
Working Together to Fight Anti-Black Racism: U of T's Anti-Racism and Cultural Diversity Office (Scott Anderson)
Six Ways to Speed Up Inclusion and Positive Change In Higher Education Faculty Culture NOW (Joy Connolly)
Canadian post-secondary institutions unite to take action on anti-Black racism, Black inclusion (Don Campbell)
This Is the Casual Racism That I Face at My Elite High School (Rainier Harris)
Rhonda McEwen named special adviser on anti-racism and equity at U of T Mississauga (Patricia Lonergan)
U of T program to prioritize healing, wellness and support for Black and racialized community members (Tina Adamopoulos)
U of T task force on anti-Black racism opens call for nominations (Geoffrey Vendeville)
Slavery and McGill University: Bicentenary Recommendations (Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson and student authors)
Architectural Education
Architecture, Design, Action: Chris Reed on Dismantling Systemic Racism in Pedagogy and Practice (Alice Bucknell, Interviewer)
Where are My People: Black in Architecture (Kendall A. Nicholson)
Reflecting on the African American Experience at the Harvard GSD (Martin C. Pedersen)
Architecture schools present first pan-Canada lecture series
Race, Space, and Architecture: Huda Tayob in conversation with Frances Richard (Frances Richard)
Students and Alumni Gather for Conference on Racism in Architecture Schools (Jack Balderrama Morley)
How can architecture schools increase diversity? (Melinda D. Anderson)
UT Austin’s School of Architecture Establishes Initiative on Race, Gender and the Built Environment (University of Texas at Austin)
Not Enough: A Lack of Diversity May Kill Architecture (UNCC SoA)
Architecture "is more elitist than the most elite university in the world" says Phineas Harper (Cajsa Carlson)
Whiteness and the Architectural Profession in the United States (Bryan E. Norwood)
Architecture for All (Greg Pitcher)
Webinar: Racial In_Justice in Landscape Architecture Curricula (American Society of Landscape Architects)
Students and Alumni Gather for Conference on Racism in Architecture Schools (Jack Balderrama Morley)
Dismantling the Design Syllabus (Zach Mortice)
Reflections on Indigeneity in Architectural Education (David Fortin)
Founding the Future: Lesley Lokko talks to AN about race, academia, and starting an architecture school in Ghana (Amrita Raja)
Diversity and Equality in Design Practice
Why the scale figures in architectural images need to be more diverse (Emily Nonko)
How to Begin Talking About Race in the Workplace (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)
The Persistence of Cultural Racism in Canadian Cultural Institutions (David Balzer)
NCARB By the Numbers 2020 Offers Closer Look at Demographics and Diversity (Miriam Sitz)
Architecture, Design, Action: Chris Reed on Dismantling Systemic Racism in Pedagogy and Practice (Alice Bucknell, Interviewer)
Where are My People: Black in Architecture (Kendall A. Nicholson)
Addressing the Lack of Diversity in Graphic Design (Elisa Wouk Almino)
Alleging Racism, Sole Permanently Employed Black Staff Member of Goldsmiths Art Department ‘Withdraws Labor’ (Alex Greenberger)
Adjaye: ‘Architecture is the last industry to recognise the issue of white privilege’ (Will Ng)
Spaces of Black joy: five London-based designers share their visions (Charlene Prempeh)
Black MD’s, Lawyers and Architects (Melvin L. Mitchell)
Equity in Architectural Academia: A Conversation with Cory Henry (Sean Joyner)
Landscape
Jellicoe 2020 Lecture Series: Addressing diversity in landscape (Jane Findlay)
Architecture, Design, Action: Chris Reed on Dismantling Systemic Racism in Pedagogy and Practice (Alice Bucknell, Interviewer)
Black Landscapes Matter (Kofi Boone)
Reading Group: Black Geographies and Black Philosophies (Shaeeda Mensah and Rachel Goffe)
Black Landscapes Matter: Q&A with Landscape Designer Walter Hood (Rebecca Greenwald)
Dismantling the Design Syllabus (Zach Mortice)
Notes Toward a History of Black Landscape Architecture (Kofi Boone)
Floodlines (Vann R. Newkirk II)
Webinar: Racial In_Justice in Landscape Architecture Curricula (American Society of Landscape Architects)
Cities and Urbanity
A Call to Courage: An Open Letter to Canadian Urbanists (Jay Pitter)
Syllabus for an Urban Design Course That Somehow Doesn't Exist Yet (Colorlines)
Black neighbourhoods in Toronto are hit hardest by COVID-19 — and it’s ‘anchored in racism’: experts (Olivia Bowden and Patrick Cain)
How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering (Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich)
What ‘Livability’ Looks Like for Black Women (Brentin Mock)
This is the plan to rebuild Vancouver's Hogan's Alley for the Black community (Kenneth Chan)
Spaces of Black joy: five London-based designers share their visions (Charlene Prempeh)
America’s Cities Were Designed to Oppress (Bryan Lee)
Cities in the Time of COVID-19: How do we respond to anti-Black racism in urbanist practices and conversations? (Jay Pitter)
MOVING TO ACTION: How Do We Respond to Anti-Black Racism in Urbanist Practices and Conversations? (Jay Pitter)
Urban Design is Not Neutral (The Agenda with Steve Paikin)
Forestry
The Lone Oak in a Pine Forest (Carol Walker)
Visual Arts
Alleging Racism, Sole Permanently Employed Black Staff Member of Goldsmiths Art Department ‘Withdraws Labor’ (Alex Greenberger)
A Virtual Museum Preserves Black Lives Matter Protest Art (Leah Feiger)
Unsettling Coloniality: A Critical and Radical Fiber/Textile Bibliography (Critical Craft Forum)
How James Luna Exposed the Mechanisms of American Racism (John Yau)
A Syllabus for Making Work About Race as a White Artist in America (Ryan Wong)
Sources of Self-Regard (Deborah Willis)
Seeing Black Futures (Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew)
Artist-Activist Yves B. Golden on Honoring the “Spirit of Black/Trans Resilience” (Camila McHugh)
The Persistence of Cultural Racism in Canadian Cultural Institutions (David Balzer)
The African-American Art Shaping the 21st Century
Somnath Bhatt on intuition, labour, and relinquishing individuality (Alif Ibrahim)
People, Firms, and Organizations
Celebrating BIPOC
Gender equality platform notamuse discusses five female graphic designers we should all know about (Jyni Ong)
Spaces of Black joy: five London-based designers share their visions (Charlene Prempeh)
Seeing Black Futures (Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew)
A Celebration of Brown, Black and Indigenous Stories (Bedatri D. Choudhury)
50 Women Rocking the World of Architecture (National Organization of Minority Architects)
Barrier-Breaking African American Architects We Should Be Celebrating (Elizabeth Fazzare and Carly Olson)
10 Black Architects Whose Work Has Shaped America (Nathan Bahadursingh)
In Niger, an Architect Looking to the Country’s Design Traditions (Michael Snyder)
A Virtual Museum Preserves Black Lives Matter Protest Art (Leah Feiger)
Black, Indigenous and POC Owned Design Studios
Black Owned Businesses In The GTA Open During COVID
The African-American Art Shaping the 21st Century
135 Black-owned restaurants and other businesses in Toronto you can support right now
Multi-talented architect and academic advocate Lesley Lokko is awarded the 2020 RIBA Annie Spink Award (Katherine Guimapang)
Reading Lists, Bibliographies, Curricula
Race Space & Architecture: Towards an Open Access Curriculum (University of Johannesburg Graduate School of Architecture, LSE Department of Sociology and Royal College of Art)
Resources on Anti-Racism: Places Reading List (Places Journal)
'Race' and Space: A New Curriculum (The Bartlett, UCL Faculty of the Built Environment)
Race/Architecture/Decolonization Design Resources - The Architecture Lobby Toronto (The Architecture Lobby Toronto)
Student Equity Alliance (SEA) Reading List (AVSSU, GALDSU and FGSA)
Reading for Racial Justice (University of Minnesota Press)
This List Of Books, Films And Podcasts About Racism Is A Start, Not A Panacea (Isabella Rosario)
Required Reading (Hrag Vartanian)
Canada Day celebrates ongoing colonialism
Boston Society of Architects — Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (Boston Society of Architects)
Tu White School of Architecture (Students at Tulane School of Architecture)
Anti-Racism Design Resources (Space Industries x ELL x Design As Protest Collective)
Reading Group: Black Geographies and Black Philosophies (Led by Shaeeda Mensah and Rachel Goffe)
Unsettling Coloniality: A Critical and Radical Fiber/Textile Bibliography (Critical Craft Forum)
#IndigenousReads (Government of Canada)
Race, Architecture, Social Equity (Daniel Barber)
Syllabus for an Urban Design Course That Somehow Doesn't Exist Yet (Colorlines)
CONCEPTIONS OF WHITE: A RESEARCH TOOLKIT ON THE ORIGINS AND MEANINGS OF WHITE IDENTITY (MacKenzie Art Gallery)
Anti-Racism Resources for White People (Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein)
Race, Space, and the Law Reading List (Louis Nelson, University of Virginia)
Women, Space, and Place: Reading List (Amy Murphy, University of Southern California)
Architecture and Control: Reading List (Desiree Valadares, UC Berkeley)
For Educators
Tools for Anti Racist Teaching (PBS Teachers Lounge)
Race Space & Architecture: Towards an Open Access Curriculum (University of Johannesburg Graduate School of Architecture, LSE Department of Sociology and Royal College of Art)
'Race' and Space: A New Curriculum (The Bartlett, UCL Faculty of the Built Environment)
How can architecture schools increase diversity? (Melinda D. Anderson)
Six Ways to Speed Up Inclusion and Positive Change In Higher Education Faculty Culture NOW (Joy Connolly)
Race, Space, and Architecture: Huda Tayob in conversation with Frances Richard (Frances Richard)
On the Futility of Listening: Statement from the Black Student Alliance at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation to the Columbia GSAPP Dean, Faculty and Administration (Black Student Alliance)
James Baldwin's Lesson for Teachers in a Time of Turmoil (Clint Smith)
Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University (Julie Cupples, Ramón Grosfoguel)
Learning Reimagined: Radical Thinking for Equitable Futures (Imaginable Futures/IDEO)
Tools and Resources
Reflect. Restore. Action. (University of Toronto)
Scholarships and career resources for architects of color (Curbed)
TC Anti-Racism Resource Guide (University of Toronto)
Health & Wellness (Distress Centres of Greater Toronto)