As a global community of architecture educators, supporting our students through unpredictable times—especially the provision of pastoral care for the health, safety, and well-being of our international and marginalized students—has become a key focus area.
The eight Inclusive Practices which we identified, are summarized in Table:
Support Inclusive Context: Eight Inclusive Practices
Ubuntu is a Nguni Bantu expression meaning “humanity”. Broadly translated as “I am because we are,” ubuntu is often used philosophically to mean “the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity” (Madonsela 2020; Tutu 2013).
Through building collective well-being and providing mental health support, it helps to build a sense of community. The webinar data included a debate about whether students should have their cameras turned on or off during online classes and the impact that this decision has on the broader cohort community (ACSA: Educating in a Rapidly Changing Time, 2020), exemplifying an ‘Ubuntu currere’ approach.
The Start of a Conversation About ‘Employing Ubuntu Currere for Collective Well-being’. Join the conversation at the bottom of the Post in the Comments section.
Based in Brooklyn, New York, I work at the intersection of interior design, social activism and emerging digital technologies. As a design activist and technologist, I work to decolonise the design curricula and facilitate the democratization of technologies, heightened since the global pandemic and pivot online. Designing feminist exhibitions and round table discussions, and collaboratively building an equitable database of resources for the design studio that opens relationships between the Global South and North. Collaboration is central in my practice. I am co-authoring a chapter titled “The Radically Inclusive Studio: an open access conversation on radically inclusive practices in the architectural design studio” with newfound colleagues in South Africa and Australia for The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South, edited by Dean Harriet Harriss, Ashraf Salama, and Ane Gonzalez Lara. Research presented in December 2020 at HELTASA in South Africa: “Inclusive Spatial Practices for Professional Education” and in May 2020 for Teaching Architecture Online: Methods and Outcomes: “Creating the Virtual Commons”.
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