The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHC) has highlighted the “catalytic power that genuine remedy and reparations” can have on the daily life of victims, families, communities and entire societies. In this course, we will closely study the OHC’s definition of reparations, and we will put this definition into conversation with synchronic and diachronic theories from urban, environmental, Black, feminist, geographic, and historical materialist studies. We will then explore actually-existing, real world “reparative planning” experiments around the world and in the United States, in order to understand the potential and limitations of attempts to reassemble people and place towards greater belonging, sustainability, and mutuality. Our inquiry takes up the notion of “the integration of life and subjects” that is the foundational ethos of The New School, which includes a commitment to the pragmatic role of education in supporting the growth of more progressive, just, and democratic, social and economic systems.