EVENTS & EXPERIENCES

Calendar of events

Join in for upcoming Design as Protest actions, events, and meetups. Use our calendar to see what’s on the rise.


Join the Monthly DAP Organizer Meeting

Currently, we meet monthly on Sunday evenings via Zoom gatherings to hold space for existing and new organizers and co-conspirators to meet, connect, and have conversation about current DAP projects and social justice topics, as well as to plan upcoming collective efforts. To receive the invitation and link to these gatherings, sign up for our newsletter to get reminders or email us at designasprotest@gmail.com.


 

DAP May Monthly Organizing Meeting
May
19

DAP May Monthly Organizing Meeting

Our next DAP Organizing meeting is on Sunday, May 19 at 1pm PT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET. Hop back in the Slack or sign up for our newsletter for the registration link! This month, we’ll also end with a kickback for more casual conversation, grieving/reflecting, and activities to unwind.

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DAP Monthly Organizing Meeting
Apr
14

DAP Monthly Organizing Meeting

Our next DAP Organizing meeting is on Sunday, April 14 at 1pm PT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET. Hop back in the Slack or sign up for our newsletter for the registration link! This month, we’ll also end with a kickback for more casual conversation, grieving/reflecting, and activities to unwind.

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DESIGN JUSTICE SUMMIT
Jun
15
to Jun 18

DESIGN JUSTICE SUMMIT

REGISTER BY JUNE 8TH for the four-day Design Justice Summit from June 15-18, 2023 in New Orleans! Advocates will gather and work through a set of presentations, workshops, and activities designed to build fellowship and foster critical, nuanced learning around the details of our most pressing issues.

Register below~

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DAP National Call
Jun
25

DAP National Call

It’s that time of year again! We hope to see you on Saturday, June 25th, 11am PT | 12pm MT | 1pm CT | 2pm ET for our 4th National Call!

We can’t wait to celebrate, reflect on the last year, workshop organizing tactics and strategies, and jump into a call to action together. Join us in building just futures and an anti-racist built environment!

Registration Link: bit.ly/dap-national-call-june-2022

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DAP Collective: YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST
Mar
10
to Apr 21

DAP Collective: YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST

YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST showcases the labor, processes, and love behind the multidimensional projects of Design As Protest Collective at Columbia College Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago.

DAP Collective was established in the wake of massive losses of life in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd. Following the National Call on June 3, 2020, DAP began to grow through weekly BIPOC organizer calls on Zoom, fractalizing into myriad collaborations fueled by long-running injustices in the built environment. YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST celebrates DAP’s projects and materializes the labor and love behind the work. Projects in the show reframe and reclaim design as a tool for protest and collective liberation rather than violence and oppression. In manifesting DAP’s complex virtual relationships and organizing in physical forms, the show reveals the transformative capacity of collaborative design processes that center justice, joy, and community care. Through an ethos of “bias toward action,” YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST is a call to action for all designers to interrogate their role in anti-racist design.

For more information click here

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DAP x ASLA
Nov
19

DAP x ASLA

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Bias Towards Action: Applying the Design As Protest Anti-Racist Index to Your Design Practice

Deep Dive Session at ASLA 2021 Conference in Nashville, TN

Design As Protest’s Anti-Racist Design Justice Index is a transformative framework to seed change in design. We will explore the power dynamics of design, positionality, and co-create solutions for anti-racism design practices. Participants will leave with actionable strategies for firms, practices, and workplaces, plus connect to others practicing design justice.

Register here

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DAP X Hindsight Conference
Nov
5

DAP X Hindsight Conference

Join Design as Protest (DAP) Collective to envision a future of just policies that aim to address violence and injustice that architecture, design, and urban planning practices have disproportionately inflicted upon BIPOC people and communities. Participants will strategize and take action with us to deconstruct traditional racist planning practices and seek anti-racist policy recommendations. We will review the DAP Policy Briefs, an open collaborative document that uplifts progressive policy recommendations in regards to topics including Permanently Affordable Housing, Houselessness Eviction Policy, and Abolishment of Carceral Spaces. The session will start with a DAP Collective led panel discussion before transitioning into smaller generative breakout groups on each brief topic. Participants will share experiences, case studies and strategize about liberatory planning processes

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DAP x AIAS 2021
Jul
25

DAP x AIAS 2021

AIAS Grassroots Conference

Join us as we share what we’ve been able to accomplish and what we’ve learned over a year’s worth of organizing and community building, and see how you can organize towards Design Justice in your spaces.

Register here:www.aias.org/events/grassroots-2021/#Third

Automatic closed captioning provided by Zoom will be available - for more info, a participant can reach out to mailbox@aias.org

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ARDJI LAUNCH SUMMIT
Mar
6

ARDJI LAUNCH SUMMIT

DAP Field Organizing holds the Anti-Racist Design Justice Index Summit to outline the launch of the first campaign the Index to hold organizations accountable to the Design Justice Demands. (open to DAP & DMU members)

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Solidarity Letters
Feb
20

Solidarity Letters

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Join Design As Protest collective members for a letter-writing action during Black History Month to show love and solidarity with incarcerated folks! We will learn about the challenges they are facing right now, provide names and addresses of folks to write to, and share other helpful resources and calls to action during the digital event. Register at bit.ly/dap-bhm-letters ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
ALL ARE WELCOME!

12-2 ET / 1-3 CT / 11-1 MT / 10-12 PT

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NOMA Conference: DAPxDMU Seminar
Oct
17

NOMA Conference: DAPxDMU Seminar

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Join us as we talk about our coalition of designers at the 2020 National Organization of Minority Architects Conference! We will discuss our mobilizing strategies to dismantle the privilege and power structures that use architecture and design as tools of oppression.

3:30-4:30 PM EST

(Closed Registration)

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