ABSTRACT
This chapter primarily discusses the framework for design justice practices through the work of New Orleans-based Colloqate Design, weaved through a race-based narrative motivated by the author’s life experience. The discussion proposes a critical reading of land and power and their role in reproducing injustices as it was common in state-supported segregationist practices and private industry discrimination. It advocates for projects connected to people and their land and the reparation of past and current injustices. It argues that understanding and using land is critical to shaping a just society. The projects shown and described are evidence of implementing and applying the principles for a design justice focused on power and place in the communities that shape it.
