Just Baltimore
The design of the city and its buildings is often the exclusive right of directors, investors and wealthy people, who, among other things, hire architects. But there is also another city imaginable.…
The design of the city and its buildings is often the exclusive right of directors, investors and wealthy people, who, among other things, hire architects. But there is also another city imaginable. A city where you have the right to develop yourselves, partly by giving shape to the city in which you live. In this studio we look for strategies that create space for self-development and we design buildings that contribute substantially to a just city.
We begin our exploration in Baltimore, one of the most problematic cities in a country where injustice is the standard for certain population groups. Together with architecture students and teachers at Morgan State University, we explore which strategies are conceivable to give the (predominantly black) local residents more influence on the development of their own living environment. We then develop different building typologies for a just neighbourhood from these strategies. We will then draw lessons for tackling a disadvantaged neighbourhood in Rotterdam.
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