Sloan Leo is the founder and CEO of FLOX Studio, “a community design and strategy studio that works with curious optimists to build a more brave, creative, and resilient social impact ecosystem.” In this post, they share FLOX Studio’s principles of community design. I find these principles particularly insightful for the way they state both what they are and what they are not.

As part of the 100 Day Studio, a series of online discussions about architecture, Neba Sere and Umi Baden-Powell of Black Females in Architecture facilitate a discussion on the importance of decolonising the architecture curriculum, and, how doing so will shape the future of this discipline.

As part of Deem Journal’s designing for dignity series, the first of hopefully many, this discussion is centered around building a sustainable and just food system. Deem editor-in-chief Alice Grandiot is in conversation with Yemi Amu from Oko Farms and Naima Penniman from Soul Fire Farms, and it’s inspiring listening to them describe and imagine new ways of growing, supporting and connecting with nature and food.

Dr. Pierce Gordon describes himself as an “innovation catalyst, researcher, facilitator, and evaluator, impassioned by the space between transformation and liberation.” When I’ve had the chance to hear him speak he’s explained his love for working with people to bring forth the change they want to see in the world, facilitating that process of seeing and creating new futures. In this upcoming event, he’s speaking about how equity and design should remake the world.

Dr. Christina Harrington believes in community-based participatory design, which, if you’re interested in this newsletter, I imagine you’ll be excited about too. Christina is the director of Equity and Health Innovations Design Research Lab and her work focuses on supporting marginalized communities to find solutions to their own needs. In this piece, she unpacks her participatory process and what it means to actually do this work.