Principal Daimian S. Hines participated in final studio reviews for an innovative and compelling exploration of design justice within the built environment. The principle of the studio work was the field of architectural operations should be expanded to include new forms of justice-centered design and institutional work. Students were challenged to craft programmatic and site-specific proposals that will articulate diverse modes of commemoration and memory of the legacies of American Slavery (centered on the Harvard Report and various other initiatives) to, therefore, intervene in the larger political dimensions of the long continuing struggle for freedom and civil rights, in the U.S., and the world. Daimian notes, “I applaud the GSD for undertaking a studio whereby the university acknowledges its role in economics and prosperity in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and seeks design justice within the built environment.”
