the collaborative design workshop.
Design facilitation, education and architectural advocacy.
collab. facilitates education, research and design advocacy for public and private clients. We advocate, strategize and design for racial justice through feminist, queer practices.
From our roots in the citymaking professions of architecture, planning and policy, we work across disciplines to realize principles of design justice in all our projects.
What we do
Design
I work together with clients to discuss design concepts and precedent, drawing on my professional background in architecture, development, participatory planning and advocacy to create a wide range of deliverables including
Schematic drawings
Written and spoken narratives
Site research
Wordpress and Squarespace websites
Rendered illustrations
Physical installations
Teaching and Facilitation
Individually and collaboratively, I lead participatory workshops, seminars, site visits and walking tours on a range of topics for students and professional audiences. Read about one of them, ‘Design for the deconstruction of the White supremacist cisheteropatriarchy’, here.
Writing, Illustration, and Documentation
Drawing brought me into architecture, and I combine artistic practice with storytelling through writing and photography at venues including my blog, JAWS*. I am also available to write, lay out, and format grant applications, reports, strategic plans and more. Here is a report I laid out for New Orleans public art and public history planning process Paper Monuments.
“Design is a tool and a method to infiltrate broken infrastructural pipelines that have been set in place. We hold the power to choose between design that harms and continues to divide us, and design that create spaces that will uplift, connect and distribute power to those who have been marginalized.”
– Kordae Henry
Get in Touch
Want to strategize? Scheme? Plot? Dream?
Reach out and let’s see what we can do together.