DISCUSSION

Alexandra Staub: Thank you very much, Euneika and Lily. The project that you’ve just presented has been fascinating. In the course of this symposium, we’ve heard a number of different approaches to break through the barriers that prevent us from developing alternatives to current practices, both in the classroom and in the field. You have focused on a pedagogical approach, which is fascinating on many levels. You are training the next generation of designers and architects. It’s very important to encourage younger people, and especially People of Color who may not think they have a voice, to share their knowledge. Architecture still tends to be dominated by white, middle and upper-middle class designers. So, I also see your work as a form of advertising to get a new cohort of people involved in planning our future

My immediate question is, how will you continue? You’ve come up with an extremely creative partnering, “sistering”, between the CoLab students in a graduate-level architecture program and the youth elders in Atlanta. It sounds like this might be a prototype of some sort. If so, what’s next on the horizon?

Euneuka Rogers-Sipp: Yes, the research has to continue.