ASBN Live: Investing in the Spatial Practice of Democracy
American Sustainable Business Network invites you to join us
Wednesday, February 9th at 1pm ET for
Investing in the Spatial Practice of
Democracy, an interactive webinar with April
De Simone (Trahan Architects).
We are in a pivotal societal moment where many of us are
grappling with the (forward) direction of democracy. For far too
long, the very truths we look to with hope and hold “to be
self-evident” have been selectively applied and grossly abused,
leaving this concept of democracy and equality tattered and worn.
The contiguous, generational impact of social and spatial
inequities and injustice has ignited deep conversations and
alliances around how do each of us define our place of value to
steward the kind of democracy necessary to grow our shared
humanity. It is within this very context a rhetorical query of
“How do we invest in the spatial practice of a more equitable and
just democracy?” launched Designing For Democracy (DFD).
This webinar will explore how a growing interdisciplinary
consortium of practitioners are using the DFD platform to
spatially interrogate and actualize democratic values we strongly
believe are intrinsically important in scaling a just and
inclusive built environment. We will share our framework which
investigates and defines how we view spatial practice from the
lens of healing, equity, and justice. This grounds the
application of our tools and methods centered on transforming the
conditions that inform, guide, and manifest our society. By
humanizing data and harnessing empathy, we can achieve palpable
results that can correct our built environment’s disparate
impacts.