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White Voices for White Spaces
from here & now
█[Studio Coordinators, 2014-2019]
“75% - ‘old’ white males
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89% - white males
11% - women
100% - white
0% - colour
White voices for white space. These numbers represent a society from the past. The reality is that we are taught by this white voice representing a false reality. White voices for white space.
What, [then], are the kinds of spaces, people, and functions we are equipped to face? How can we be engaged in the broad spectrum of society? If this system does not cease to exist, we as students, educators, and aspiring practitioners of the built environment are complicit in continual exacerbation of racial discrimination, gender inequality, systemic injustices and societal unrest.”