Our Mission
Colloqate Design is a multidisciplinary nonprofit Design Justice practice focused on expanding community access to, and building power through, the design of social, civic, and cultural spaces. Our mission is to intentionally organize, advocate, and design spaces of racial, social, and cultural justice throughout the built environment. Through programming, planning and design projects, Colloqate seeks to dismantle the privilege and power structures that use the design professions to maintain systems of injustice.
Organize
We organize to build knowledge, power, and access in the communities we serve through ongoing community gatherings + workshops to share and build collective knowledge around the process of city-building.
Advocate
We advocate for equitable policies, procedures and practice that acknowledge + seek to address injustice. We practice as design advocates, a community advocacy link, and a space for public discourse on injustices in the built environment.
Design
We design civic, cultural, and communal spaces for racial and social equity through community design workshops + Base Design Projects.
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Our collective values are validated through spaces we design.
Our Services
Colloqate Design is a design justice practice specializing in design, planning, and community engagement. Our services are rooted in a deliberate process that centers the voice of the community throughout the timeline of a project. Equity in every aspect of our work. By our definition, equity is a civil and human right and a collective responsibility to ensure that all of a society’s shared resources, collective wealth, private and public institutions can be accessed equally by all of its members regardless of the circumstances of their birth. Colloqate is committed to dismantling inequity inbuilt, social, and political environments.
What We Do
Design
Design for civic, communal, and cultural spaces consistent with design justice theory and aligned with community voice.
Outreach + Engagement
We organize and implement outreach strategies driven by community knowledge and aligned with design justice practice.
Urban Design + Planning
Planning at the scale of institutions and neighborhoods dedicated to processes that engage communities and advocate for eliminating barriers to justice in the built environment.
Design Justice Workshops
Professional and community workshops developed as racial and design justice training. The workshops serve as a organizing platform for the future of design justice as a practice.
Civic Design + Public Art
Collaborative design projects designed to address social issues in public space. Designed with the intention of driving civic dialogue around our most pressing social issues.
Design Policy Consultancy
Advocating for justice in and through the built environment. Consulting with cities, neighborhoods, and organizations to develop policies and procedures to forward justice in practice.