Design x Community Engagement: A Conversation with Designing Justice + Designing Spaces
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Virtual
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AIA Georgia welcomes Shelley Davis Roberts of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces.
“To develop each project, DJDS intimately engages with the communities it intends to service. For a housing facility for youth transitioning out of foster care in Atlanta, for instance, DJDS engaged with the community during a nine-month process that included model-making, visual games, and finance education. In many cases, they learned that the spaces they create should be flexible, reconfigurable, and mobile in order to provide civic resources wherever they may be needed.”
An architectural associate at the groundbreaking firm, Roberts has been a part of a number of projects geared toward integrating public participation in the design process in hopes of a more impactful design that is held accountable to its community and the ideas of restorative justice. In partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Atlanta, DJDS brought Atlanta residents to the table to transform the Atlanta City Detention Center into a Center for Equity.
This is the second part in a series on community engagement and design, the first led by AIA Atlanta and the Atlanta YAF.
*Earn (1) LU CEU
ABOUT SHELLEY DAVIS ROBERTS
ABOUT DJDS
Designing Justice + Designing Spaces is an Oakland-based architecture and real estate development non-profit working to end mass incarceration by building infrastructure that addresses its root causes: poverty, racism, unequal access to resources, and the criminal justice system itself. Their work counters the traditional adversarial and punitive architecture of justice—courthouses, prisons, and jails—by creating spaces and buildings for restorative justice, community building, and housing for people coming out of incarceration.
DJDS also operates the Concept Development Fund, a program that helps nonprofits and advocates transform their ideas for community infrastructure reinvestment into fully realized designs complete with budgetary outlines, imagery, and other concrete details. The Fund receives charitable contributions that are used to support the financial costs of the concept development process.
AIA Georgia welcomes Shelley Davis Roberts of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces.
“To develop each project, DJDS intimately engages with the communities it intends to service. For a housing facility for youth transitioning out of foster care in Atlanta, for instance, DJDS engaged with the community during a nine-month process that included model-making, visual games, and finance education. In many cases, they learned that the spaces they create should be flexible, reconfigurable, and mobile in order to provide civic resources wherever they may be needed.”
An architectural associate at the groundbreaking firm, Roberts has been a part of a number of projects geared toward integrating public participation in the design process in hopes of a more impactful design that is held accountable to its community and the ideas of restorative justice. In partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Atlanta, DJDS brought Atlanta residents to the table to transform the Atlanta City Detention Center into a Center for Equity.
This is the second part in a series on community engagement and design, the first led by AIA Atlanta and the Atlanta YAF.
*Earn (1) LU CEU
ABOUT SHELLEY DAVIS ROBERTS
ABOUT DJDS
Designing Justice + Designing Spaces is an Oakland-based architecture and real estate development non-profit working to end mass incarceration by building infrastructure that addresses its root causes: poverty, racism, unequal access to resources, and the criminal justice system itself. Their work counters the traditional adversarial and punitive architecture of justice—courthouses, prisons, and jails—by creating spaces and buildings for restorative justice, community building, and housing for people coming out of incarceration.
DJDS also operates the Concept Development Fund, a program that helps nonprofits and advocates transform their ideas for community infrastructure reinvestment into fully realized designs complete with budgetary outlines, imagery, and other concrete details. The Fund receives charitable contributions that are used to support the financial costs of the concept development process.
