Dialogue 4/4: Disrupting Slow Violence: Untapping the Healing Power of the Spatial Disciplines

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JEDI Collective Interdisciplinary Dialogue Series Violence, Conflict and Space: Peacebuilding Contributions from the Spatial Disciplines 

Dialogue 4/4: Disrupting Slow Violence: Untapping the Healing Power of the Spatial Disciplines

This Dialogue Series focuses on conversations among scholars, community members, and students reflecting on the relationship between violence and built environment disciplines and practices (architecture, urban design, planning, historic preservation, real estate, and related fields) and opportunities for peacebuilding. 

The Series is hosted by the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (MAPP) in the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters. This is a MAPP offering in the context of our JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) initiatives. 

Panelists: 

Elisa Dainese
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Georgia Institute of Technology

Ashley Hernandez
Assistant Professor, Community Development
University of North Carolina

Maia S. Roberts
Vice President, Real Estate Development, 
Mid-Atlantic Preservation of Affordable Housing

Fallon Aidoo
Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation
Tulane School of Architecture

Nohely Alvarez
Ph.D. Candidate, Urban & Regional Planning & Design
University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

Moderator:

Riem Elzoghbi
Lecturer, Urban Studies & Planning Program
University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

Interdisciplinary Dialogue Series Youtube Recording:

 **Dialogue 4/4:Disrupting Slow Violence: Untapping the Healing Power of the Spatial Disciplines**Architecture, historic preservation, urban planning, real estate development, and related disciplines have contributed to historic harms that have brought disenfranchisement to low-income communities and communities of color. Through racist regulations, urban renewal, freeway construction, segregated community design, and toxic mortgage lending, to name a few, these disciplines have been complicit in gentrification-induced displacement, classist and racist segregation, and environmental damage, incurring slow violence on individuals, communities, and ecosystems.

Against this backdrop, returning to a more community-oriented, ecological, and caring ethos motivates many professionals to change the practice paradigm. How are the design disciplines transforming their ways of the past, purposefully embracing healing, and creating other worlds? How can healing sustainably supersede slow violence through planning and design?

Dialogue Series Schedule:

• October 29, 2024, 6 - 8:30 p.m.  |  Dialogue 1/4: Social Polarization Can the Spatial Disciplines Bring Us Closer Together?
• November 26, 2024, 6:30 - 8 p.m.  |  Dialogue 2/4: Wars and Peacebuilding: What Can the Spatial Disciplines Do?
• March 13, 2025, 1 - 2:30 p.m.  |  Dialogue 3/4: Climate Change and Disasters
• April 16, 2025, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  |  Dialogue 4/4: Disrupting Slow Violence: Untapping the Healing Power of the Spatial Disciplines