It Starts With Home

We believe everyone has the right to a healthy, safe, and secure place to call home.

We help forcibly displaced families heal, adjust, and build their new communities by using design thinking to provide the tools, resources, and methods to empower them to improve their lives and livelihood.

We know social equity and community-based designs are the solution to ending displacement.

Our goal is to help people heal, dream, and create a better future for themselves and their families

Our Services

Community Engagement

We commit to centering the voices of those directly harmed and impacted by displacement, white supremacy, anti-blackness, patriarchy, zionism, anti-semitism, settler colonialism and violence worldwide and use tools including the following to uplift their voices: 

    • Community Workshops 

    • Facilitation 

    • Storytelling 

    • Art Making and Installations

    • Site Activation and Pop-Ups

Architecture and Urban Planning

We commit to applying architecture and planning practices toward the pursuit of justice, harm reduction, healing, connection, and liberation, through community-led design and trauma-informed practices. We offer the following:

    • Design and Architecture - including housing, commercial and community public spaces 

    • Site Acquisition 

    • Research and Evaluation 

    • Construction Management 

    • Landscape Design

Political Advocacy and Coalition Building

We commit to striving towards global systems change and understand political advocacy and coalition building is vital to the movement. We use tools such as:

    • Teach-Ins

    • Toolkits

    • Trainings

    • Direct Actions

    • Community Advocacy and Representation

Statement on 76 Years of Ongoing Genocide

Daarna is in allyship with the people of Palestine and those who have expressed their horror at the violence being wrought on Palestine and its people. We join in unanimity with those who have publicly announced their support for solidarity with the Palestinian people - exposing the ongoing Genocide as inseparable from struggles against racism, patriarchy, and settler colonial violence worldwide. A year ago Daarna, among countless institutions, organizations, and groups, joined the chorus of voices demanding an end to Israeli occupation.

As the one-year mark of the ongoing genocide passes, we reaffirm our commitment to Palestinian’s and all colonized people’s liberation and share the following Partnership and Community Principles which are the foundation for Daarna’s work moving forward. It is important now more than ever that our partners’ and collaborators’ positions on Palestinian liberation are as clear and direct as our own. As Mariame Kaba says, anything worth doing is worth doing together. Commitment to radical change is a constant and life-affirming relationship. We ask all of our partners to sign on to the following:

Partnership and Community Principles

This is Home

A Teach-In Series

A traveling workshop series that creates spaces for political education, community conversations, and art-making aimed to weave together threads of solidarity, resilience, and liberation for all colonized people from Palestine to Turtle Island.

Collaborate with Us!

We partner with refugees, local communities, and activists to provide needed resources that can empower refugees to create new homes.