Architecture discussion platform Sound Advice has gathered essays and interviews from 60 architects and urbanists of colour in a book to highlight racial inequality in architecture.
Sound Advice founders Joseph Henry and Pooja Agrawal assembled the book, titled Now You Know, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the #BlackoutTuesday.
Now You Know book contains a collection of writings on inequality
The duo created the publication to build on the reaction to the murder of Floyd and to make clear that there is a lot of work to do to make the built environment more diverse.
"This book came into being as a response to a specific moment, #BlackoutTuesday, when all across social media individuals, businesses and institutions were posting a black square in response to the murder of George Floyd," Henry told Dezeen. "The publication became a means to hold the raw responses of people of colour in the architecture and design industry who were feeling anger, hurt and frustration," he continued.
"Collectively we wanted to show how much work is needed to make change, to ensure people didn't become complacent after #BlackoutTuesday and let them think that that was enough to guarantee progress."
It was created in response to #BlackoutTuesday
The book, which was designed by London-based Joel Antoine-Wilkinson, contains essays, poems and interviews from 60 people of colour working in the built environment including Dezeen content producer Siufan Adey ...