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Equity
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Profiles
A New Orleans Planner Builds Community as an Anti-Highway Activist
A proposal to remove a hated highway is caught in a maelstrom of politicking. But Amy Stelly is standing her ground.
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Viewpoints
Architecture’s Role in a Post-Roe World
Two architects make the case that designers’ skills are of crucial importance in the fight for reproductive rights.
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Viewpoints
SCHOOLED: What Is Neurodiversity?
For designers of workplaces and classrooms especially, the term means absolute inclusivity with no single type of brain left behind.
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Profiles
Crystal Williams on Toni Morrison’s Memo
RISD's president reflects on "Toni Morrison's Memo on Angela Davis" and the author's advocacy for Black creatives.
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Profiles
Congratulations to AIA’s Next President
Kimberly Dowdell, the 295th living black woman to earn an architect's license, is the first black woman to serve as AIA president.
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Viewpoints
Designing for Autism
Sandow’s executive vice president and design futurist, AJ Paron, speaks with Melanie Isaacs, founder and CEO of Pal Experiences, a nonprofit dedicated to creating access and inclusion for individuals with developmental
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Profiles
Specify Hot List: Dayton Schroeter
SmithGroup’s vice president and national design director is helping guide the 169-year-old firm to a diverse and equitable future.
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Profiles
Motionspot Brings Function and Form to Accessible Design
The U.K.–based consultancy helps design accessible spaces that look—and feel—good.
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Manhattan’s Center for Architecture Imagines the Future of Universal Design
Curated by Barry Bergdoll and Juliana Barton, Reset: Towards a New Commons explores “more holistic approaches to inclusion” through architecture and design.
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Viewpoints
You Can’t Lift Up America’s Schools Without Lifting Up the Neighborhoods Where They Operate
Ron Bogle, CEO of the National Design Alliance, promotes revitalizing learning centers and their settings together.
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3 Ways the Design Industry Can Champion Working Parents
Think Lab's Amanda Schneider argues that in the war for talent, advocating for working parents is sound business strategy.
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Viewpoints
Design That Reshapes Learning
Here's our guide to the projects and designers shaping the future of education.
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Viewpoints
How Black Creatives Are Reimagining Design
Here's our regularly updated chronicle of the Black architects, designers, and advocates reshaping design for equity and justice.
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Projects
The North Lawndale Employment Network Sees Through Employment Barriers for the Formerly Incarcerated
Designed by Wheeler Kearns Architects, the center makes use of a former bank that now holds sweeter treasure—honey.
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Projects
Three Technology Projects Represent Change for the Better
Tree Folio NYC, Dwelling Unit for Musicians, and Scout received honorable mentions in Metropolis’ inaugural Responsible Disruptors competition.
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Viewpoints
Will the Metaverse be Accessible?
Virtual and augmented reality experiences have the power to make a more accessible world or to lock people with disabilities out. Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips says what actually happens is up to us.
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Profiles
Edward Lyons Pryce, the Black Landscape Architect that Preserved the Tuskegee Institute
A new scholarship will continue Pryce’s legacy as one of the first Black landscape architects.
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Viewpoints
The
Design Guide
to the
MetaverseHere's our regularly updated guide to the continually evolving role of design in the metaverse.
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The Unspoken Burden on Women in Architecture
Throughout 2021, women have had to take the lead in transforming the practice of architecture into a practice of care—disproportionately so.
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15 Must-Reads to Help You Prepare for 2022
With insightful analysis, critical perspectives, and in-depth reporting, Metropolis contributors give you the tools you need for the year ahead.