Submissions open for our first issue, Ballot. Send your us your work through May - June 2024 Catch our conversation on Green Urbanist Podcast here Submissions open for our first issue, Ballot. Send your us your work through May - June 2024 Catch our conversation on Green Urbanist Podcast here
In the April 2021 Issue of RIBAJ, Decolonise Architecture took over the Intelligence section.
We are taught to be subtle, but too often we are silent. As we build for our society, architecture continues to refect its political context, when the need for inclusivity clear.
Our universities yearn to be beacons of
diversity but the lecture hall upholds the
status quo and suppresses the voices of
many through systemic inequality (further
explored by CABE report Architecture and
Race). Today’s students, born at a time of
higher social and climate awareness, are the
profession’s future. Fresh-faced and hoping
to ‘do good’ via our designs, we enter an
architectural education that heavily favours
the privileged. Intricately tied to colonialism,
institutional racism is deeply harmful in
architecture; its lack of acknowledgment
maintains the hush