For New Orleans–Based Firm, Architecture Is a Tool for Design Justice

When Bryan C. Lee Jr. was a boy, his family moved from Sicily to Trenton, NJ, and he was struck by not only the vastly different physical environment but also the ways different physical spaces affect people. It’s a concept that he explores today at Colloqate Design, an architecture and design-justice firm that focuses on civic, communal, and cultural spaces through the lens of racial justice. His current project, the Defrag House, is an interactive installation piece that highlights housing conditions and issues in New Orleans, where Colloqate is based. Designed to serve as both a gallery space to honor stories of the disenfranchised and an assembly space to allow people to gather in community, the Defrag House sums up Lee’s mission: to organize, advocate, and design spaces of racial, social, and cultural equity. Watch the video to learn more about how Colloqate Design fights for design justice. For more great content like this, please visit: https://www.autodesk.com/redshift