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Bryan C. Lee Jr. on NOMA’s Vision for Equity

The incoming National Organization of Minority Architects president talks advocacy and access during the organization's annual conference.

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Three Firms Redefining Design Through Community-Led Processes

As part of their Alternative Practices project, Verda Alexander and Maya Bird-Murphy spotlight firms that are turning traditional Western design thinking on its head. 

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Outdoor Amenities Resource: 25+ Guides to Designing Better Outdoor Amenities

METROPOLIS gathers tools, guides, and manuals to help landscape architects, architects, and interior designers leverage the holistic benefits of outdoor amenities.

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How to Improve the Function and Experience of Outdoor Amenities

This section of the METROPOLIS Outdoor Amenities Resource offers tools, guides, and manuals to help you improve the function and experience of outdoor amenities.

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Embracing Differences: Understanding and Designing for Neurodiversity

When we design for neurodiversity—be it autism, ADHD, sensory processing disorder—we design for everyone.

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When We Design for Autism, We Design for Everyone

Magda Mostafa, autism design consultant and architecture professor at the American University in Cairo, discusses inclusive design.

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Long-Term Thinking from Design’s Next Generation

Prioritizing equity and sustainability, the portfolios of Metropolis’s 2023 Future100 students offer a glimpse of what’s next in architecture and design.

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The Best Resources Linking Sustainability and Equity

This section of the Metropolis Design for Equity Primer offers resources to expand your green building practice to include social equity.

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The Best Resources for More Meaningful Community Engagement

This section of the Metropolis Design for Equity Primer offers resources to help you listen to the needs of the individuals and groups a project will affect.

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The Best Tools for Equity in Architecture and Design Supply Chains

This section of the Metropolis Design for Equity Primer offers resources to create equity in building material supply chains.

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The Best Tools for Creating Equity in Design Firms

This section of the Metropolis Design for Equity Primer offers resources to help you promote fairness and justice within your firm.

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How Black Designers and Architects 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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The Best Tools to Achieve Equity in Project Outcomes

This section of the Metropolis Design for Equity Primer offers resources to help you design spaces that are inclusive, accessible, and equitable.

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Design for Equity Primer: 20+ Resources to Help You Design Inclusively and Fairly

This primer is a handy guide to toolkits, manuals, certifications, and indexes that can help you design with justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in mind.

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An HBCU’s Historic Preservation Program Starts with Its Own Campus

Uncovering history from Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement, students at Tuskegee University take a hands-on role in preserving history on campus and beyond.