DESIGN A WORLD WITHOUT CASTE

Imagine places as though unequal social systems had never been conceived

According to Isabel Wilkerson, "Caste is the granting or withholding of respect, status, honor, attention, privileges, resources, benefit of the doubt, and human kindness to someone on the basis of their perceived rank or standing in the hierarchy. Racism and casteism do overlap - what some people call racism could be seen as merely one manifestation of the degree to which we have internalized the larger American caste system."

Whatever creativity or brilliance they had has been lost for all time….where would we be as a species had the millions of targets of these caste systems been permitted to live out their dreams or live at all? Where would the planet be had the putative beneficiaries been freed of the illusions that imprisoned them, too, had they directed their energies toward solutions for all of humanity, cures for cancer and hunger and the existential threat of climate change, rather than division?

Worlds to be based upon the RACE, SPACE AND ARCHITECTURE curriculum. Students depict their world by visually articulating the six frames, “ordering that [which] is spatial and material”. Students illustrate how the frames overlap in political and economic power, while detailing “everyday practices and spatial typologies.” Students create world orders in which caste is nonexistent – establish communal, rather than marginalized ways of inhabiting the world by illustrating the antonyms (opposites) of the six frames: