Casa Familiar Walking Tour: Social Impact Design Innovation

Join us for an exploration of the work of visionary community development agency Casa Familiar in the border town of San Ysidro, California.

Casa Familiar's projects showcase community-engaged development, incremental housing models, cultural spaces, and a resilience center with a focus on environmental justice. Their work is the result of decades of community and design efforts to support local development models.

The tour will include Living Rooms at the Border by Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman and Studio E Architects as well as the San Ysidro Border Crossing.

Learning Objectives

1. Examine strategies to alleviate environmental injustices and the lack of adequate housing through urban redevelopment.
2. Consider how culture and community can impact the broader binational discussion on race, equity, and immigration.
3. Discover relationships between housing, arts, advocacy, and cultural planning—and how these integral relationships can foster community empowerment and civic engagement.
4. Discuss strategies for re-envisioning communities in a cross-border context and the steps required to implement these strategies.

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