Monique Robinson

Architecture and Preservation present opportunities for building long lasting communities. Using an interdisciplinary approach to engage authentically with a site and its users is a powerful tool to heal the layered and complex system that deprives minority communities on a global scale. I am specifically interested in the intersections of social justice, heritage, sustainability and architecture and their combined impacts on a community’s identity, autonomy, sustainability, economy, and longevity. There must also be an acknowledgment, intentionality, and advocacy of the systemic infrastructures in place that continue to plague and deprive minority communities from experiencing the same opportunities as others. I firmly believe that working in tandem with the needs of the existing communities and context will always yield favorable results, however convoluted they may be. If this is not considered and implemented, we will continue to see the erasure of our communities.