About
Our Mission
To provide forcibly displaced and uprooted people with a healthy, safe, and nurturing place to call home. By utilizing design thinking, we empower individuals to build new homes and communities, while also offering the necessary tools, resources, and methods to improve their livelihoods and overall quality of life. Our goal is to help people heal, dream, and create a better future for themselves and their families.
Our Vision
To Empower refugees and uprooted communities to find a sense of home.
Our Services
Archiving & Storytelling
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Direct support for community and professional archivists and historians in the preservation of historical and cultural architectural landmarks
Produce and share archival images through the Daarna Print Shop
Architecture & Urban Planning
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Design services for housing, commercial, and community spaces.
Support navigating planning permitting processes, site research and evaluation, and construction management
Political Education & Community Engagement
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Host educational workshops to connect design justice with legislative advocacy.
Create guidebooks to engage community members.
Build coalition with values aligned organizations, collectives, and individuals.
Who We Are
We are a collective of community organizers, architects, and artists who actualize the power between analysis and direct action. We aim to increase the collective understanding and ability to identify apartheid architecture and urban planning, make connections between local and global colonial structures, and strengthen the movement to divest from capitalistic industries. By sharing stories, we reclaim our collective memories and invite communities to dream, design, and become liberatory homes and villages.
Collaborate with Us!
We partner with refugees, local communities, artists, and activists to provide needed resources that can empower refugees to create new homes.