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Continuing Education will be provided by AIA Detroit

Practitioners in architecture and design are conditioned to view Black communities (and other communities of color) as monolithic and of lesser value. It is no wonder that development outcomes fail to serve the real client: the citizens that will be most impacted by the work. This course will challenge participants to interrogate their misconceptions, and provide them with guiding principles to make their work more culturally relevant. In this session, we’ll explore the concept of REPAIRations, a provocative new first step approach for restoring “swagger” to Black communities; the state from which a community’s physical, social and economic growth can occur.

Speaker Info: Lauren A. Hood, MCD, Co-Founder | Deep Dive Detroit

Lauren A. Hood is a native Detroiter and AfroUrbanist working at the intersection of Black aspiration and city change. Applying a reparations lens to the work, Lauren employs the strategies of storytelling, visioning and relationship building to address a community’s past harms, present needs and future hopes & dreams.

Credentialed and experienced as both a community developer and equity facilitator, she holds space for otherwise difficult conversations that allow practitioners and citizen stakeholders to understand and value each other's contributions while working toward transformational outcomes. She was awarded the AIA Detroit Charles Blessing Award in 2020.