Join us for an introduction of the 6Ps of Community and Social Practice — a framework for understanding how architecture operates as a system of power: through Pedagogy, Policy, Procedure, Practice, Projects, and People. Drawn from the work of NOMA and the field of Spatial Design Justice, this session challenges participants to examine their role in the built environment and to consider what it means to design with — not just for — communities.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to identify the 6Ps of Community and Social Practice — Pedagogy, Policy, Procedure, Practice, Projects, and People — using the session framework to describe how each P directly shapes the health, safety, and welfare outcomes of the communities architects serve.
- Participants will be able to analyze the documented welfare impacts of spatial injustice — including displacement trauma, environmental hazard exposure, and surveillance-driven design — using historical precedents such as redlining and CPTED to distinguish between built environments that harm community welfare and those that actively support it.
- Participants will be able to apply the 6Ps as a diagnostic tool to evaluate their own practice, using the framework to examine where current design decisions — across policy, procedure, and project delivery — are producing or perpetuating inequitable health and welfare outcomes for underserved communities.
- Participants will be able to formulate at least one concrete change to their professional practice, using the 6Ps framework to justify how that change will affirmatively improve the health, safety, and welfare of communities most impacted by spatial inequity within a 90-day timeframe.