Empowered Neighborhoods
Fall 2022
Taught By: Gabriela Rendon
Section: A
CRN: 14181
Credits: 3
This course delves into community-led practices, strategies, and tools promoting housing justice and equitable neighborhood development in cities. Often led by women, people of color, and minorities, these socially-oriented endeavors are becoming vital as communities experience an increasing profit-driven development and continuous crises. Uncovering local narratives and activist practices, students will explore how tenant unions, community land trusts, limited-equity housing cooperatives, mutual aid networks, and other community-controlled forms of organizing and development are gaining ground through solidarity and coalition-building across neighborhoods. Applying that knowledge, students will design organizing, mapping, planning, and advocacy tools and projects to contribute to ongoing community-led visions, neighborhood-based initiatives, and social justice movements. The course combines radical listening, militant research, mapping, and design strategies to prepare students interested in engaging and advancing community efforts to preserve low-income, underserved, and immigrant communities.
College: Parsons School of Design (PS)
Department: Design Strategies (PSDS)
Campus: New York City (GV)
Course Format: Seminar (R)
Max Enrollment: 15
Add/Drop Deadline: September 12, 2022 (Monday)
Online Withdrawal Deadline: November 20, 2022 (Sunday)
Seats Available: Yes
Status: Open*
* Status information is updated every five minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 7:46am 5/20/2022 EDT