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Books

Teaching and Learning for Social Justice and Equity in Higher Education : Virtual Settings. Applies research on effective learning to promote social justice and equity in higher education to virtual settings.
Publication Date: 2022
Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research This research-based book foregrounds Black narrative traditions and honors alternative methods of data collection, analysis, and representation.
Publication Date: 2021
Portals: Pedagogy, Practice, and Architecture's Future Imaginary This book documents an interregnum, a pause, a moment of self-reflection in which architects, imperiled by the COVID-19 pandemic and all of the forms of inequity that this global crisis surfaced, confronted remote architectural pedagogy and practice as a critical threshold for the future imaginary of the discipline. The renowned group of architects, educators, theorists, critics, and curators assembled in this volume provide critical insights into the future of architectural pedagogy, utilizing the thesis and design research projects of the RISD Architecture class of 2020 as exemplars of the transformations currently taking place in the field.
Publication Date: 2021
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students' needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power--and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.
Call Number: LC238 .B35 2021
Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League and women's colleges to historically black colleges and land-grant universities, teach us about the production and distribution of knowledge? Addressing media theory, architectural history, and the history of academia, Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex comprising a network of infrastructures and operations through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld.
Publication Date: 2021
Dark Academia: How Universities Die There is a significant link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its members. While academia was once thought of as the best job in the world - one that fosters autonomy, craft, intrinsic job satisfaction and vocational zeal - you would be hard-pressed to find a lecturer today who believes that now. Peter Fleming delves into this new metrics-obsessed, overly hierarchical world to bring out the unspoken, private and emotional underbelly of the neoliberal university.
Publication Date: 2021
The Ethics of Architecture The Ethics of Architecture offers a short and approachable scholarly introduction to a timely question: in a world of increasing population density, how does one construct habitable spaces that promote social goals like health, happiness, environmental friendliness, and justice?
Publication Date: 2021
Elevating Marginalized Voices in Academe: Lessons For a New Generation of Scholars This book shares advice, how-to's, validations, and cautionary tales based on minoritized students' recent experiences in doctoral studies. Providing a change of view from inspirational works framed at the "traditional" graduate student towards the affirmation of marginalized voices, readers are given a look at the multiplicitous experiences of underrepresented identities in the predominantly, and historically, White academy.
Publication Date: 2021
Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory In Knowledge Justice, Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color scholars use critical race theory (CRT) to challenge the foundational principles, values, and assumptions of Library and Information Science and Studies (LIS) in the United States. (open access edition)
Publication Date: 2021
The Experiences of Queer Students of Color at Historically White Institutions By presenting data from student interviews and reflection journals, the book explores what it means to hold multiple minoritized identities, and asks how such intersections are navigated, contested, and experienced on college campuses. Exploring both micro- and macro-level mappings of marginalization and power, the text reveals issues including institutional erasure, pervasive whiteness in college and LGBTQ+ communities, and institutionalized racism and heterosexism, and offers in-depth insights into the material, psychological, emotional, and social impacts on queer students of color.
Publication Date: 2021
Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race The book centers the unique narratives of Black, Brown, and Latinx design educators, from their childhood experiences to their navigation of undergraduate and graduate studies and their career paths in academia and practice.
Publication Date: 2021
Design and Digital Interfaces: Designing with Aesthetic and Ethical Awareness Through discussion with cutting-edge designers and thinkers and with international examples, the authors explain how we need an expanded aesthetic, critical and ethical awareness on the part of designers willing to act with sensitivity and understanding towards the people they design for and with.
Publication Date: 2021
Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance This book documents the lived experiences of women of color academics who have leveraged their professional positions to challenge the status quo in their scholarship, teaching, service, activism, and leadership.
Publication Date: 2020
Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place disrupts the common sense of "futures" in education or "knowledge for the future" by examining the multiplicity of possible destinies in coexistent experiences of living and learning.
Publication Date: 2020
Intercultural Collaboration by Design: Drawing from Differences, Distances, and Disciplines Through Visual Thinking Intercultural Collaboration by Design introduces a framework for collaborating across cultures and learning to use multicultural perspectives to address pressing global issues.
Publication Date: 2020
Think Like an Architect: How to Develop Critical, Creative and Collaborative Problem-solving Skills Architects have a valuable and critical set of multiple thinking types that they develop throughout the design process. In this book, Randy Deutsch shows readers how to access those thinking types and use them outside pure design thinking - showing how they can both solve problems but also identify the problems that need solving.
Publication Date: 2020
Confronting Equity and Inclusion Incidents on Campus Confronting Equity and Inclusion Incidents on Campus provides a framework for building more inclusive campuses that embody equity and the values of community. A key resource for professionals, students, and scholars of higher education, this volume provides understanding for fostering educational spaces that cultivate belonging among all members of higher education communities, including those historically underrepresented and marginalized.
Publication Date: 2020
Ethics in Design and Communication: Critical Perspectives This timely collection brings together critical, analytic, historical, and practical studies to address what ethics means in the practice of design.
Publication Date: 2020
Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons Focuses on Black women’s experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.
Publication Date: 2019
Understanding Intercultural Interaction: An Analysis of Key Concepts Living, working and studying in intercultural and international contexts is ever more relevant to a broad range of individuals including educators, social scientists and professionals. As education and work become increasingly international, every student and professional at some point is likely to feel the need to explore and discuss concepts of culture and identity in order to be prepared for intercultural encounters in the globalised workplace.
Publication Date: 2019
Art As Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art Art as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere. With content arranged thematically around such topics as direct action, alternative organizing, urban imaginaries, anti-bias work, and collective learning, among others, Art as Social Action is a comprehensive manual for teachers about how to teach art as social practice.
Call Number: N7433.915 .A77 2018
Pedagogy of the Oppressed First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is ongoing.
Call Number: LB880 .F73 P4313 2018
Critical Storytelling in Uncritical Times: Undergraduates Share Their Stories in Higher Education Stories of undergraduate students and educators in U.S. higher education. Storytellers in this volume grapple with issues of bullying, stigma surrounding mental health, cultural barriers, gender inequity, and other forms of struggle in educational settings.
Publication Date: 2017
When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities When Ivory Towers Were Black lies at the potent intersection of race, urban development, and higher education. It tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students earned degrees from a world-class university. The story takes place in New York City at Columbia University's School of Architecture and spans a decade of institutional evolution that mirrored the emergence and denouement of the Black Power Movement.
Publication Date: 2017
On Mutant Pedagogies: Seeking Justice and Drawing Change in Teacher Education This ground-breaking book on pedagogy, research, and philosophy in teacher education expands the imagination of justice-oriented education and arts-based scholarship. Based on a multi-year study of Jones' use of feminist pedagogies, the book seamlessly moves between classroom practice, theory, and philosophy in a way that will offer something for everyone: those who are looking for new ways of doing teacher education, those who hope to better understand philosophy, and those who seek new ways of doing inquiry and scholarship.
Publication Date: 2016
Social Justice Issues and Racism in the College Classroom: Perspectives from Different Voices The focus of Social Justice Issues and Racism in the College Classroom is faculty and students of color at postsecondary institutions and the racial challenges they encounter in college classrooms.
Call Number: LC1099.3 .S63 2013
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.
Publication Date: 2013
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional life Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work.
Publication Date: 2012
Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons Art and Social Justice Education offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects.
Publication Date: 2012
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.
Publication Date: 1994

Articles and Journals

Journal of Architectural Education The Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) has been the primary venue for research and commentary on architectural education since it was founded in 1947.
Charrette Charrette is the open access peer reviewed journal of the asssociation of architectural educators (aae). Contributions are welcomed from practitioners and theorists engaged in innovative and significant architectural education and research.
Dimensions Dimensions is the annual, student-produced journal of architecture at the University of Michigan. It seeks to contribute to the critical discourse of architectural education by documenting the most compelling work produced by its students, faculty, fellows, and visiting lecturers.
Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education The peer-reviewed journal of Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education aims to inform, stimulate and promote the development of research in the field by providing a forum for debate arising from findings as well as theory and methodologies.

Special Issue: Decolonization of Arts Education, Volume 20, Number 1, April 2021

Guest editor Dr. Dori Tunstall, Dean of the Faculty of Design, Ontario College of Art and Design University.

"This special issue expresses how global arts education can become a site of alternative positionalities, practices and pedagogies using decolonializing methodology. These expressions also respond to COVID-19, and the importance of perspectives from those disproportionally affected by the pandemic, as exacerbated by colonial ideology." [Intellect]

Saxon, J. (2022). Princeton’s Mellon Fellows are bringing fresh perspectives to research and teaching in architecture, urbanism and the humanities. Princeton University.

Cochran Hameen, E. (2021). A Half Dozen Students Can Lead a Revolution. Architect.

Brown. E.N. (2020). Designing an Experimental Technology Curriculum By—and For—Black Creatives. AIGA Eye on Design.

Deem Journal. (2020). Milton Curry, Dean of the School of Architecture at USC, speaks with Deem’s founders about the meaning of social practice.

Hobart, E. (2020). Antiracism in the catalog: An analysis of records. College & Research Libraries News, 81(8), 378.

Rhodes. M. (2020). The Agency Scope Of Work Is Reimagining the Talent Pipeline for Creatives of Color. AIGA Eye on Design.

Hickey, A. and Tuazon, A. (2019). Decolonizing and Diversifying Are Two Different Things: A Workshop Case Study. Art History Teaching Resources.

Tayob, H. and Hall, S. (2019). Race, space and architecture: towards and open-access curriculum. London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Sociology, London, UK.

Wortham-Galvin, B.D. and McFarland, J. (2019). White Out: Architecture's enduring resistance to blackness. Charrette, 5(2), 83-98.

Richards, W. (2018). What does race have to do with architectural education? Sharon Sutton on why Columbia University’s story should matter to students--and architects--today. Architect, 107(5), 95–96.

Online Resources

AFROTECTOPIA Imagineer Syllabus
All Monuments Must Fall Syllabus
Anti-racism Design Resources Suggested Syllabi
Association of African American Museums
Decolonization and Design A lesson plan from Bloomsbury Design Library
Educating for Black Lives
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Pirate Care Syllabus "Pirate Care is a research process - primarily based in the transnational European space - that maps the increasingly present forms of activism at the intersection of “care” and “piracy”, which in new and interesting ways are trying to intervene in one of the most important challenges of our time, that is, the ‘crisis of care’ in all its multiple and interconnected dimensions."
Places Journal Resources on Anti-Racism Curricula and bibliographies submitted by students, educators, schools, designers, firms, professional bodies, museums, and organizations.
The Alternatives Project (TAP) "The Alternatives Project (TAP) is a diverse, transnational collective of progressive academics, union members, civil society activists, and social movement participants concerned with building a global collective critical voice oriented towards education and societal transformation."
Unlearning Whiteness: A Statement from the Black Faculty of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
What is an Antiracist Architectural History?

Recording: Decentering the Canon in the Architectural Library

"Decentering the Canon in the Architectural Library" is a panel discussion hosted by the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art on March 23, 2021, in partnership with the Illinois School of Architecture.

Panelists include expertise from a broad range of disciplines within architecture:

Charles L. Davis II, Assistant Professor of Architecture History and Criticism, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Aneesha Dharwadker, Assistant Professor Illinois School of Architecture + Department of Landscape Architecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Leila Anna Wahba, Deputy Director & Culture Curator, Architecture + Design Museum, Los Angeles