This Black design collective is incubating the next generation of community builders

Get the Full StoryFocusing on the built environment in communities of color, BlackSpace s Studio KIN is accelerating young design firms.

Across the United States, there is a long history of communities of color being underserved if not outright oppressed by the dominant modes of urban planning and development. But for the past 10 years, a collective of architects, designers, artists, and urban planners called BlackSpace has been rethinking how communities of color get designed and built. Now, the group is trying to build up the ranks of practitioners working alongside communities of color in the built environment to make sure their needs are no longer overlooked or ignored.

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