Improving racial diversity in the architecture industry will require uncomfortable conversations, say Sound Advice founders Joseph Henry and Pooja Agrawal.
Architecture diversity platform Sound Advice creates short quotes and tips on social media coupled with music, which are designed to be an alternative to the academic way in which inequality is usually discussed.
"We wanted to express something tonally different to a lot of the things we were reading about inequality," Agrawal and Henry told Dezeen.
"We found that discussions can be too theoretical and academic and we wanted to create a space where we could be more reactive and explore the visceral and human experience of inequality in the built environment."
Sound Advice was founded after an article in Afterparti Agrawal, who is co-founder of not-for-profit organisation Public Practice and Henry, a senior project officer at the Greater London Authority, created Sound Advice after being featured in New Architecture Writer's magazine Afterparti.
"We don't want to be pigeon-holed as diversity experts"
As well as social media tips, Sound Advice now creates written articles, visual podcasts and events that focus on inequality in London, although its something its founders would prefer they didn't have to talk about.
"We don't really want to talk about diversity, we don't want to be pigeon-holed as diversity 'experts'," they said. "But we also came to realise that if we don't talk...