Core Workshops
Elective Workshops
Oppression 101
What’s Health Got to Do with It?
What are the components of the systems of oppression impacting the context that we’re working in?
Kiara Nagel This training should be a platform to create a shared definition and understanding around the concepts of oppression including racism, sexism, ableism, and classism. It should also explore how these methods of oppression intersect with each other and appear in everyday life from the personal experiences to institutionalized examples. Participants should be able to identify how these oppressions manifest in the built environment and community-engaged design, and discuss tools to address and dismantle these issues to move towards justice and equity as outcomes. KIARA NAGEL is a creative strategist based in Los Angeles with 20 years of experience building creative and collaborative initiatives and supporting social groups, leaders, and organizations to become more engaged and effective. She serves as faculty at Antioch University in Los Angeles and The International Youth Initiative Program (YIP) in Sweden. She is an Associate with the Center for Story- based Strategy and an Affiliate with Interaction Institute for Social Change and she holds a Masters in City Planning from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.
Monica Guerra, Nupur Chaudhury Cities embody the powerful interaction of people and the communities they live, work, and play in. Our neighborhoods are shaped by planners and designers creatively thinking about streets, parks, and job. However, public health also plays a role. We see community design as an approach to address complex health challenges not only in our neighborhoods and cities, but also with the potential to have broad impacts on social equity. This course explores opportunities for urban and health experts to work together in shaping the future of community design. We will learn about health, the fight for health equity, and the roles of planners in the fight for healthier cities. Students will share with each other creative approaches to addressing broad health outcomes in a community, developing new skills to promote health and reduce health inequities. MONICA GUERRA is committed to building healthy communities. She brings extensive experience working across the fields of urban planning, health, and education to transform social policy in cities. She currently works as a senior planner at Raimi + Associates. Prior to this, she conducted research on urban poverty interventions in Medellin, Colombia. she/her/hers monica@raimiassociates.com @miguerrax
she/her/hers Kiaranagel@gmail.com
Privilege and power
NUPUR CHAUDHURY works to develop and implement strategies to support residents, communities, and neighborhoods challenge power structures to build just, strong, equitable cities. Trained in Urban Planning and Public Health, she’s led coalition building efforts after Superstorm Sandy, redeveloped power structures in villages in India, and developed a citizen planning institute for public housing residents in Brooklyn. The American Journal of Public Health, CityLab and NPR have all featured her work.
How do we understand our own positionality and self-work in the context of these issues?
Christine Gaspar, Liz Ogbu This workshop will outline and collectively explore concepts of privilege and power and how these important ideas exist in community-engaged design. Participants will reflect on their own positionality, including their fragility and their privilege, and understand how these are fluid and complex in projects. Students will workshop tools around personal agency and how to leverage their power but also learn to identify fragility and how this can also impede projects.
she/her/hers nupur.chaudhury@gmail.com
*This workshop is for students only. LIZ OGBU A designer, urbanist, and spatial justice advocate, Liz is an expert on social and spatial innovation in challenged urban environments globally. Through her multidisciplinary design and innovation practice, Studio O, she collaborates with/in communities in need to leverage the power of design to catalyze sustained social impact. Among her honors, she is a TEDWomen speaker, one of Public Interest Design’s Top 100, and an Aspen Ideas Scholar. she/her/hers liz@lizogbu.com @lizogbu CHRISTINE GASPAR is Executive Director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a New Yorkbased nonprofit who uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement. She partners with community organizations to create visually-based educational tools that help demystify complex issues from zoning law to sewage infrastructure. CUP’s work is in use by dozens of community organizers and tens of thousands of individuals in New York City and beyond, being featured in art and design contexts such as the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s National Design Triennial, PS-1, and the Venice Biennale, and recognized with a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Institutional Achievement. she/her/hers christine@welcometocup.org
How to Raise Money and Build Budgets, Equitably and Effectively Jess Garz Participants attending this session will leave with an: 1) Understanding that budget building is a creative act that is the clearest articulation of project or organization’s values; 2) A structural understanding of the inequities of institutional philanthropy so they are aware of their own privilege or exclusion; and 3) Practical tools to understand what writing proposals, creating budgets and defining impact really means. This workshop will be dynamic, and together we will demystify and decode jargon used in philanthropy. Wanna think about how you’d spend 5 million dollars?!? Come to this session. JESS GARZ’s primary goal is to support organizations – including those belonging to government, philanthropy and civil society - to have policies, practices and cultures that take an active position towards social and racial equity. As the founder and director of RAE Consulting, Jess’s practice is informed by a decade of work as a grantmaker — first with the New Orleans-based Transforma Projects and then as a Senior Program Officer at the Surdna Foundation – and an amazing set of colleagues, peers and friends across the country. she/her/hers jess.garz@gmail.com
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