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Making Architecture Relevant to Underserved Communities: Mapping Reconsidered

Kim, Joongsub

Architecture (Basel), 2022-10, Vol.2 (4), p.637-659 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Making Architecture Relevant to Underserved Communities: Mapping Reconsidered
Autor: Kim, Joongsub
Assuntos: COVID-19 ; equitable development ; mapping ; relevant architecture ; social justice ; undeserved communities
É parte de: Architecture (Basel), 2022-10, Vol.2 (4), p.637-659
Descrição: The COVID-19 pandemic and the death of George Floyd shed new light on longstanding disparities that exist in low-income communities of color and impact their overall well-being. Architectural educators and practitioners across the United States are engaging in public discourse to debate the role that architecture should play in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in education and the architectural profession. This trend has motivated us to ask: How can architecture be made more relevant to underserved communities? This article investigated that question via the construct of mapping. Mapping is a mechanism for reflection, rediscovery, and reexamination of the familiar and self-discovery of the less familiar. To further explore how mapping can help make architecture more relevant to disadvantaged populations, we used a mobile mapping station (MMS)—a practical, hands-on, community-based project conducted in Detroit. This article focused on MMSs, exploring how, when coupled with social justice values and equitable development principles, architecture can be made more accessible to broader populations.
Editor: MDPI AG
Idioma: Inglês

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