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THE CHALLENGE:
THE CHALLENGE:
Your design challenge is to create a plan to ensure that our physical space speaks to our anti-racist goals, ensuring that it celebrates who we are while promoting agency, awareness, belonging, and acceptance of others.
Your design challenge is to create a plan to ensure that our physical space speaks to our anti-racist goals, ensuring that it celebrates who we are while promoting agency, awareness, belonging, and acceptance of others.
Some Questions to Consider:
Some Questions to Consider:
What does it mean for our physical space to "speak to our anti-racist goals"?
How can the physical space promote student agency and community connection?
How does the use of space impact the sense of inclusion and well-being for all members of our community?
Possible Actions:
Possible Actions:
Through your inquiry, you will undoubtedly imagine many interesting ways to use our physical space to celebrate who we are. Some possible actions could include considering art displays to promote the diversity and various cultures within our community; creating a campaign to promote a caring and compassionate community, displayed throughout the school; using our halls, floors and ceiling structures for a photo exhibit that helps to tell the stories of all the people who make up our community.
Panel Guest for Physical Space
Panel Guest for Physical Space
Kamau Ware is a multidimensional creative blending complementary yet disparate disciplines as an Artist / Historian.
Kamau Ware is a multidimensional creative blending complementary yet disparate disciplines as an Artist / Historian. Ware retells and expands history with scholarship and visual storytelling to fuse creativity and learning into one experience. He is best known for his flagship storytelling project, Black Gotham Experience (BGX), which is an immersive multimedia project founded in 2010 that reimagines the African Diaspora as one unified epic through a series of experiences including walks, talks, media, and events. Kamau Ware is the author of a forthcoming graphic novel series based on the five core historic walks of the Black Gotham Experience.
Ware has become a sought-after voice to fill the visual abyss of Black New York history, illustrating powerful stories that exist outside of public consciousness. Recent engagements include the American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting in Austin, TX (2017); the New Museum IdeasCity in New York, NY. (2017), SXSWedu & SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas (2018), and the 2018 Origin Stories speaking tour that included stops at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Brown University, California Library Association (Santa Clara), la colonie (Paris), and the African American Museum of Philadelphia. This past fall 2018, Kamau became a visiting fellow for the New School co-teaching a course titled “Blind Spots: A Walk Through New York City’s Black Past” that will return in the spring of 2020.
You can see Kamau speak on the identity of space here.
Resources to Support Your Inquiry
Resources to Support Your Inquiry
8 LESSONS TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY IN PUBLIC PLACES- BY COURTNEY KNAPP
8 LESSONS TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY IN PUBLIC PLACES- BY COURTNEY KNAPP
The following lessons represent the findings of a major PPS research initiative, "Placemaking in a Pluralistic World: Using Public Spaces to Encourage and Celebrate Social Diversity," which was carried out during the summer of 2007. These key ideas can be used as practical steps for civic institutions as they begin thinking about engaging a wide range of cultural and socioeconomic groups through their public spaces and programming. The process of Placemaking is also an important dimension in bridging difference. - Read More
What is the Spaces Context?
The Spaces context, to which we usually pay very little attention, has a surprising amount of influence on our day-to-day behavior. The buildings that we live and work in exert influence on us from the moment we enter them, but we rarely notice the impact. When looking at renting or buying a house, room or office, we spend time assessing the space, absorbing and evaluating the reaction it generates for us and deciding whether it feels right. But once we move in, those feelings are put to the back of our minds and little effort is expended on evolving the space to optimize its influence upon us. - Read More
How-Can-You-Create-a-Learning-Environment-That-Respects-Diversity.pdfCULTURALLY-RESPONSIVE-WALKTHROUGH-TOOL-2-1.pdf
Haas&Hahn is the working title of artistic duo Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, who bring art to unexpected places, from the hillside favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the streets of Philadelphia. The Dutch artists facilitate community-driven urban interventions with paint, working to shift the perception of what the outside world has of people and place, while bringing positive attention to often-disenfranchised communities and neglected spaces.
What does this gorgeous street art say? It's Arabic poetry, inspired by bold graffiti and placed where a message of hope and peace can do the most good. In this quietly passionate talk, artist and TED Fellow eL Seed describes his ambition: to create art so beautiful it needs no translation.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT MATERIAL
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT MATERIAL
There is always more to learn...
There is always more to learn...
Explorations in inclusion, diversity, gender equity and innovation in UNHCR
Explorations in inclusion, diversity, gender equity and innovation in UNHCR
“There is a responsibility on part of the organisation to ensure that we put in place checks and balances around gender equity, and that we have processes and policies. But I would say first and foremost it has to start with each of us at a very individual and personal level.”
Excerpt: In this project, we took some time to reflect on the most latent of innovations. We believe the quest to discover and discuss inclusion, diversity and gender equity will improve our work environments and, crucially, our services to Persons of Concern. We wanted to dig beneath the surface of our conversations around diversity and inclusion to help paint a picture of the changes UNHCR wants to see. To this end, we have collated written explorations of pressing diversity challenges in the organisation, extended recorded interviews with colleagues who have experienced the difficulties of exclusion and merits of inclusion, and an artistic examination of the visual landscape of human interactions and systematic bias formation.
UNESCO Resources for Combatting Racism:
Racism, xenophobia and intolerance are problems prevalent in all societies. But every day, each and every one of us can stand up against racial prejudice and intolerant attitudes. Be a human rights champion, #fightracism and #Standup4humanrights.
International human rights law-
International human rights law-
The principles of equality and non-discrimination are enshrined at the heart of modern international law, including in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the Charter of the United Nations. They also permeate the two key international human rights Covenants, on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, and on Civil and Political Rights, as well as dozens of conventions, treaties, declarations and other important international legal instruments.
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is the most comprehensive instrument concerned with combating racial discrimination. It was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 21 December 1965 and entered into force on 4 January 1969.
Other international instruments aim to protect vulnerable groups:
United Nations Celebrations
United Nations Celebrations
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (21 March)
International Day for Tolerance (16 November)
International Decade for People of African Descent (2015 -2024)
Thank you to everyone who has passed resources along to support our work. Those resources have been shared here. If you have more that you would like to share, please send them to Erin Threlfall .
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