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South Africa s Black female architects build on social justice

In South Africa, the gap between who designs buildings and who actually lives in them is one of the widest in the world. About 4 in 5 architects are white, though white South Africans are only about 9% of the population. Less than one-third of architects are women, and just 4% women of color.  The push to change that is part of the country’s overall transformation since the end of apartheid. But it also ties into an international conversation about who gets to design the spaces we move through every day. From Austria to India, city planners have wrestled with how to better accommodate people traditionally left out of design. That can mean anything from widened sidewalks to better accommodate strollers to women-only train cars meant to deter harassment.

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Egerton Ryerson: Racist philosophy of residential schools also shaped public education

Today, racism in mainstream schooling is an ongoing urgent problem as is school equity or inclusion for Black, Indigenous, low-income and disabled people. A photograph of Common School No. 2 in Belleville, Ont., around 1900. (Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County/Flickr) Project of national development Before he passed any major legislation, Ryerson’s first initiative in his tenure was a report that served as a basis for the Common Schools Act of 1846. It illuminates the philosophy behind Ryerson’s vision. Ryerson set up the project of schooling as one of national development. This vision was understood in deeply colonial, racialized and hierarchical terms. He wrote:

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