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Architectural Design Justice

This research looks to extend the Design Justice perspective unto the architectural design practice, through the altering of an ongoing architectural transformation of a homeless shelter in the center of Brussels. The Design Justice perspective aims to ensure a more equitable distribution of benefits and burdens caused through design processes in interaction with the design products; meaningful participation in design decisions; and recognition of community-based, indigenous, and diasporic design traditions; knowledge and practices (Costanza-Chock, 2020). On a similar path, Architectural Design Justice (ADJ) refers to an altered participatory design framework and critical design practices. ADJ looks to understand the socio-spatial impact the design processes and the future built project may have on its local community. It explores possibilities on how the benefits and/or burdens can be distributed among the various groups affected by architectural project(s). This research involves the development of an operational framework for enabling architecture design justice, provides novel roles needed for bottom-up architectural design as a just spatial production practice, and helps guide the Bodegem homeless center project through a networked, inclusive and reflective practice. This research involves vulnerable actors in collaboration with architect-students and active citizens through a service learning approach: acting not solely through participatory design processes, but as a form of restorative justice, enabling educational, professional, and personal development processes for all actors involved.

Date:24 Jan 2019 →  7 Feb 2024
Keywords:Design Justice, Networked Practice, Social Design, Spatial Agencies
Disciplines:Architectural practice, Architectural sciences and technology
Project type:PhD project