The Summit will be hosted in New Orleans, a city that transformed itself in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and was recently named by the New York Times as one of 52 places to go in 2018.

Objectives:

• Develop an understanding of the Design Justice movement model, theories of social change, and how to work alongside community-led efforts for systemic change
• Examine privilege and racial bias, and how that can impact a designers approach and analysis to their work
• Increase awareness of structural inequity and how it manifests in design practice, policies, and institutions that deeply impact communities
• Analyze the extent to which the environment designers are working within promote equity and engage in Design Justice work
• Discuss Design Justice opportunities and challenges taking place at the national and local levels
• Understand how to facilitate a Design Justice framework into current efforts and orient work toward creating justice