DJS2023 Summit Agenda
How the DJ Summit works.
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All sessions are co-facilitated by organizers and friends who have experience with the DAP Demands
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The summit is fundamentally about lifting our collective knowledge and exploring new ways of sharing in effort to expand this work
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Take this moment to meet new people, learn new things, and share your work. This is the time to build our organizing power!
6/15 - Thursday
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9-10am
Organizer Gathering - Session Updates
10:30am-12pm
Campaign Map Activity - Priorities
12-1pm
LUNCH
1-2pm
Campaign Map - Timeline & Goals
2-3pm
Sessions Breakdown/Summit Headstart!
3-3:30pm
Break
3:30-5:30pm
Breakouts: Core onboarding, DAP/DMU, New Demands
7:30-Midnight
DJS Organizer Party Dinner + Gathering @ CAC
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Summit Location
CAC New Orleans
900 Camp St, New Orleans, LA 70130
6/16 - Friday
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8:30 AM
Check in begins at CAC (900 Camp St.)
9:00 AM
All - Breakfast (Social)
All - Welcome Plenary Session (60 mins): Community Agreements, Language Justice, DAP Demands
Location: Black Box Theater
10:45 AM
Choose Track (75mins):
1.Create Liberatory Models
Facilitators: Tya Winn & Victor Zagabe
Location: 2nd Flr Dance Studio
2. Divest & Reallocate Police Funding
Facilitators: Dave Pabellon, Preeti Sodhi, Navi Heer
Location: 2nd Flr Board Room
3. DAP Index
Facilitators: Sophie Chien, christin hu, Kiki Cooper, A.L. Hu
Location: Warehouse
4. Climate Action + Climate Justice Roundtable
Facilitators: Arathi Gowda, Ifeoma Ebo, Sharonda Whatley, Venesa Alicea-Chuqui
Location: Black Box Theater
12:00 PM
LUNCH
Location: Warehouse
1-2:30 PM
Choose Track (90mins):
1. Preserve Indigenous Spaces
Facilitators: Dr. Tammy Greer & Taylor Holloway
Location: 2nd Flr Dance Studio
2. Cease Hostile Architecture
Facilitators: Fauzia Khanani, Preeti Sodhi, Deena Darby, Alexa Gonzales
Location: Warehouse
3. Land + Labor: Community Design Advocates & Organizers
Facilitators: Karim Hassanein, Katherine Marple, Craig Wilkins, Bryan Lee Jr.
Location: Black Box Theater
4. Center a Just Energy Transition
Facilitators: Ifeoma Ebo, Venesa Alicea-Chuqui, Sharonda Whatley
Location: 2nd Flr Board Room
2:30 PM
Guided Movement & Rest w/ Magnolia Yoga
Location: Black Box Theater
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Energy Shift Lounge
w/ The Energy Takeback
Location: Atrium
3:30 PM
Choose Track (75mins):
1. Liberatory Planning: Claiborne CID
Facilitators: Colloqate & Ujamaa
Location: Black Box Theater
2. Create, Protect & Reclaim Your Energy
Facilitators: Nydia Cardenas
Location: 2nd Flr Board Room
3. Design’s Relationship To Power
Facilitators: Chris Daemmrich & Joseph A. Colón
Location: Warehouse
4. Landback + Food Justice
Facilitators: Fauzia Khanani, Kiki Cooper, christin hu, Shreya Kaipa
Location: 2nd Flr Dance Studio
4:45 PM
Closing Debrief & Maybe Prizes (30 mins)
Location: Black Box Theater
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Shuttle runs from CAC to Broad Theater (636 N Broad St.)
7:30 - 11:00 PM
Pecha Kucha & Host Party Dinner @ Broad Theater (636 N Broad St.)
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Summit Location
CAC New Orleans
900 Camp St, New Orleans, LA 70130
Host Party & PechaKucha
Broad Theater
636 N Broad St, New Orleans, LA 70119
6/17 - Saturday
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8:30 AM
Check in begins at CAC (900 Camp St.)
9:00 AM
All - Breakfast (Social)
All - Welcome Plenary Session (60 mins): Cypher
Location: Black Box Theater
10:45 AM
Choose Track (75mins):
1.Create Liberatory Models
Facilitators: A.L. Hu, Venesa Alicea-Chuqui
Location: Black Box Theater
2. Protect and Restore Water Sovereignty
Facilitators: phrie, christin hu
Location: 2nd Flr Board Room
3. Abolish Carceral Spaces
Facilitators: Navi Heer, Bryan Lee Jr.
Location: Warehouse
4. Center Community Leadership
Facilitators: JADE Fellows, Tya Winn
Location: Warehouse
5. Preserve & Invest in Cultural Spaces
Facilitators: Liz Lefrere, Bmike Odums, Taylor Holloway
Location: 2nd Flr Dance Studio
12:00 PM
LUNCH
Location: Warehouse
1-2:30 PM
Choose Track (90mins):
1. Affordable & Just Neighborhoods
Facilitators: Taylor Holloway, Bryan Lee
Location: Warehouse
2. Center Community Leadership In Design
Facilitators: Tya Winn, Diana Nguyen
Location: Black Box Theater
3. Land + Labor
Facilitators: Sophie Chien, Kiki Cooper, Shreya Kaipa
Location: 2nd Flr Dance Studio
4. Climate & Environment | Speculative Climate Futures
Facilitators: Lauren Mae Sugay, Simone Delaney
Location: 2nd Flr Board Room
2:30 PM
Guided Movement & Rest
w/ Magnolia Yoga
Location: Black Box Theater
&
Energy Shift Lounge
w/ The Energy Takeback
Location: Atrium
3:45 PM
All - Closing Plenary Session (60 mins): Futuresetting Sessions & Closeout
Location: Black Box Theater
8:00 - 11:00 PM
DJSummit Closing Party!
Location: Atrium @ CAC
900 Camp St, New Orleans, LA 70130
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Summit Location
CAC New Orleans
900 Camp St, New Orleans, LA 70130
Surveillance + Suppression
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Design Justice demands that our governing bodies divest funds supporting policing institutions, which unjustly target marginalized people, and reinvest into spaces of care and support within disenfranchised communities.
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Design Justice demands we cease the design of all punitive carceral spaces targeting Black, Brown, Indigenous & Asian bodies and instead create spaces of restorative justice.
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Design Justice demands the cessation of all effort to implement hostile architecture and landscape tactics that profile behaviors and individuals as undesirable or criminal.
Voice + Vision
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Design Justice demands that we center community leadership in the design process across a range of project scales, types, and scopes to support community organizing and self-determination.
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The design professions of planning, architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture have been complicit in the displacement, and removal of BIPOC land and cultural spaces. Acknowledge the cultural histories and legacies of that locale, as well as center that community’s direct participation, leadership, and decision-making control to define the project outcomes.
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Design Justice demands we cease the commodification of housing and neighborhood development and instead center community visioning that creates functional and sustaining spaces and builds reparative generational wealth.
Land + Labor
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Design Justice demands we eliminate exploitative labor practices that perpetuate power and capital accumulation for the few and instead reorganize our workforce to produce value that is equitably and widely distributed among the many.
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Design Justice demands a genuinely accessible public realm, free from embedded oppression co-created by Black, Brown, Indigenous & Asian communities through democratic and transparent planning processes and policies.
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Design Justice demands the cessation of all effort to implement hostile architecture and landscape tactics that profile behaviors and individuals as undesirable or criminal.
Climate + Environment
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Design Justice demands Indigenous and Black land sovereignty, land return, and the rights of land itself. Our communities' relationships with land are critical to our survival, safety, and potential to thrive.
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Water is life; Design Justice demands that we re-imagine our relationship to water. We must sever the extractive, destructive mindset and practices that position water as an element to be controlled for unfettered development or commodified for private profit.
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Design Justice demands that the design and construction industries divest from dirty energy, center community control and consider a circular, regenerative process versus an extractive one on the path to decarbonization. The clean energy economy of the future must not cause harm to the environment or people in the generation, transmission and distribution of energy.