The Just Communities Blog

Designing with, Not for: Rethinking the Architect’s Role in Community Projects

In an era defined by climate urgency, racial reckoning, and economic disparity, the role of architects is undergoing a quiet...

How to Pitch Justice-Oriented Projects to Your Professors (and Win Them Over)

So, you’ve got an idea that could change the way your classmates think about design. It centers people. It questions...

How Collaboration Is Redefining the Architect’s Role

The lone “starchitect” sketching in isolation is becoming a relic. Today, the architect’s role is being reshaped by collaboration, across...

Building Just Communities: A Year of Power and Progress

In neighborhoods across Atlanta, community gardens are thriving, once-polluted creeks are being restored, and legacy residents are holding their ground...

How Two Landscape Architects Are Using the AP Credential to Reshape the Field

Catawba Trail Farm, once a plantation, is now a thriving space for community healing, led by a Black women-run nonprofit....

From Theory to Practice: The Just Communities Protocol

Insight from a Practitioner   Through my career I have worked with excellent interdisciplinary design and client teams to generate...

Why Regenerative Architecture Is the Future of Sustainable Design

For decades, the fields of architecture and urban planning have centered on sustainable desig: reducing carbon footprints, conserving resources, and...