HR!Day662 - Democracy and Governance I: The Practice of Democracy - April De Simone & Anne Robertson

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The Practice of Democracy Collective is a transdisciplinary design approach to navigate the intersectionality of architecture, planning, and systems thinking to develop contextualized frameworks that advance more equitable, humane, and just representations of spatial authorship addressing the collateral consequences of redlining, urban renewal, the war on drugs, mass incarceration, homelessness and the impact on democracy.

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Panelists:

    • April De Simone is a transdisciplinary design practitioner with over 20 years of experience addressing society’s most pressing and interconnected challenges. Ms. De Simone, has worked on numerous projects demonstrating the equitable, humane, and just capacities of architecture and design mediums, including a supervised visitation site at the Bronx Borough Courthouse and the social enterprise venture Urban Starzz.  
    • In 2015, she co-founded designing the WE (dtW), where she co-created the nationally recognized Undesign the Redline (UTR) platform  Her new platform, Spatial Forensics, launched in the Fall of 2021. Spatial Forensics is a research and design studio investigating the implicit and invisible relationship between architecture and human condition. Spatial Forensics works with diverse stakeholders as an interdisciplinary studio, connecting a deeper understanding of how inequity, supremacy (in its various forms), and dehumanization become spatialized and proliferated. From this context, opportunities for a new pedagogical and methodological approach expands the agency of design to interrogate and deconstruct existing paradigms, while simultaneously advancing an emergence of projects within the built environment centered on equity, justice, and inclusion.
    • Ms. De Simone continues to be an invited lecturer, speaker, and facilitator at numerous institutions. She sits on progressive boards, including that of the American Sustainable Business Council and works closely on a local and national level with diverse stakeholders within the design sector, including the Urban Design Forum,  on issues of race, equity, and new economies. A Dean Merit Scholar recipient, she received her Master of Science in Design and Urban Ecologies from Parsons School of Design. Currently she is pursuing her Masters in Architecture.
    • Anne Robertson has concentrated her energy for 25 years on the effect that toxic chemicals have on human health, especially the health of our children. Chronic illness and emotional distress among our nation’s youth have increased at an alarming rate during the past 20 years due to such exposure. It is this concern that has led Anne on a journey of discovery and why she has committed her time, resources and talents to unite a coalition of concerned individuals, organizations, businesses and communities to come together for the sake of our children’s future.
    • She is a dedicated advocate of environmentally conscious organizations and serves on the Board of several national environmental health organizations, including Healthy Child Healthy World and Mt. Sinai’s Children’s Environmental Health Center. She has also served on the Board or Advisory Board of several other non-profits including Texas Campaign for the Environment, Clean Production Action, the Sustainable Food Center, HealthCode and the Arkansas Fashion Council.
    • Anne is the great-granddaughter of Richard S. Reynolds, the founder of The Reynolds Metals Corporation and the great, great-grand niece of RJ Reynolds Tobacco. This upbringing has provided a very unique perspective on the power big business can yield in the marketplace. While there are many fantastic examples of corporations being good stewards, she has discovered there is a dark side to companies that operate with impunity toward the health and well-being of the planet and she is dedicated to finding a new and better way for business to operate by building innovative collaborations.

Co-convener:

  • Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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