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Building the World We Want: Place-Based Strategies for Systems Change Deanna V

For more than a decade, architect Deanna Van Buren has been co-designing the spaces that communities know they need to be safe: peacemaking centers, reentry campuses, hubs for survivors, and housing for people coming home. Her argument is that the built environment has a role to play in dismantling systems of oppression, and that designers have a role to play in igniting the radical imagination needed to build an ecosystem of care in its place.Deanna will trace her own path to this work and the process her firm uses to develop new building typologies with the communities they serve. Walking through projects built and underway in Oakland, Detroit, New York, and Atlanta, she will make the case that place is the missing leg of systems change. She will discuss how physical infrastructure is an essential tool for the implementation of new policies or programs and increases their impact.She will close by opening a conversation about how Hawaiʻi is already building this ecosystem, and where the next opportunities may lie.

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School of Architecture, Mānoa Campus

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