“Design is changing existing situations into preferred ones.” Herbert Simon With most of the population lacking a voice in the design process, who is speaking for them?  Without the interests of the marginalized represented in architecture, those very communities continue to lose their depth, character and integrity. “How can we quantify ‘justice’ in terms of [...]

Essay by José Gamez + Susan Rogers [ Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism ] Architecture can’t save the world, but it can mobilize it. “Hope coincides with an increasingly critical perception of the concrete conditions of reality.  Society reveals itself as something unfinished, not as something inexorably given; it becomes a challenge rather than a [...]