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We offer these resources, from books to talks to poems, as an invitation to learn, grow, and transform.
Catalyzing community healing and thriving is an emergent practice. As such, the wisdom that drives it is diverse and evolving. This is a living and incomplete library.
Academic Programs
This is not an exhaustive list but rather a sampling of academic programs and opportunities that engage issues in community-engaged design.
Articles
These are articles engaging the diversity of issues that serve as a foundation of this kind of work from community-engaged design to trauma to reparations.
Confronting power and privilege for inclusive, equitable, and healthy communities
Design Education’s Big Gap: Understanding the Role of Power
Dismantling White Supremacy Culture Within the AIGA
Hope is a Practice and a Discipline: Building a Path to a Counterculture of Care
The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement
What is Community Engaged Design
Books
From our interdependence with the land and all beings to the ways our systems of injustice have been explicitly designed, these books shed light on truths we must hold to catalyze healing and thriving.
Firms / Orgs
There are a cross section of firms and organizations working around the world to transform the places we call home from places of harm to places of healing.
Professional Learning Cohorts
Increasingly, there are also opportunities that young professionals can engage with to build their skills in community-engaged design in a more comprehensive way.
Talks + Musings
Here are some compelling voices speaking to critical issues impacting our ability to achieve a healing-based future.
Tools + Databases
There are an increasing set of tools emerging to support people’s capacity to engage in these topics, and databases providing a baseline of foundational knowledge.
Training / Webinars
There are several organizations offering regular trainings/webinars in areas of equity, justice, community-engaged design, human-centered design, and trauma.
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