The call for a fair, safe and healthy living environment for everyone.

In 2021, Pakhuis de Zwijger’s extensive two-year program Designing Cities for All commenced with the support of the Creative Industry Fund NL. This program focuses on the role of designers in shaping and creating cities for, by and with everyone. The key question for the 2021-2022 activity program is:

In the context of the super-diverse city, how can designers contribute to the creation of inclusive cities for, by and with everyone?

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About Designing Cities for All

Designing Cities For All is a two-year research and presentation programme and is made up of various components. The programme is a combination of desk research, interviews and practical research on the one hand (supported by a total of six Fellows who will each work on the programme for three months) combined with the associated activities of dossier development; and on the other hand various forms of transfer and exchange of practical experiences and generated knowledge.

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DCFA Essay Books
During the two years of the DCFA-programme we published essay bundles, which holds perspectives on designing cities for all. All authors are committed to creating cities of belonging, where everybody feels and is allowed to feel at home. These inspiring essays will help you understand how design is part of the problem, but also holds the key to the solution.
Research & Activity Programme 2021/2022
The bilingual (Dutch and English) activity programme Designing Cities for All aims to offer insights into and provide tools for the inclusive (re)design of the city in all facets for future and current designers who are active in the fields of architecture, graphic and visual communications, industrial design, spatial design, product design, digital design, game design and much more.
Breaking it Down

When doing research on designing cities for all, a first step is to define what exactly we are talking about. That's why in January 2021, we kicked off with a series of three livecasts with speakers who introduce you to the concepts we are touching upon during these two years, including the terminology that we encounter. Let's break it down for you!

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Watch the Breaking it Down livecasts:
Our DCFA advocates explain the impact of design (15 Feb), take a deep dive into cities (22 Feb) talk about what it means to design for all (1 Mar).
More about: Cities
Today in The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague have officially achieved the status of ‘super-diverse city’. In these cities in particular, awareness is growing that radical changes are necessary in order to achieve a fair, safe and healthy living environment for everyone. Key issues here are affordability, accessibility and equal opportunities. These issues revolve around (digital) products, (public) services, employment, education and healthcare, the housing market, as well as shaping the neighbourhood, village, and city in a more general sense.
More about: For All
Focusing on involving users in the actual design process and understanding and meeting the needs and wants of people is crucial. In order to arrive at systems and living environments that everyone - regardless of age, cultural background, ethnicity, capacities, religion, and gender (identity) - can relate to in a fair and equal manner, it is desirable to gain more awareness, knowledge, and expertise with inclusive design of public spaces, products, and processes. What we need is to move towards a more intersectional feminist vision for designing and shaping our daily realities.
DCFA Advocates
The Designing Cities for All activities are organised together with designers, scientists, experts, educational institutes, and other parties. On top of that, we invited six Fellows to dive into the matter of (re)designing inclusive cities. Here is an overview of experts that have been involved in the DCFA research and activities.
Fellow #1: Lyongo Juliana on The IdenCity

For architect Lyongo Juliana (Amsterdam), architecture is not just about making locations more beautiful and in balance; it is about creating people’s experience. In recent years, he has investigated the degree of diversity and inclusiveness of architecture in Amsterdam. Starting January 2021, Lyongo continued his research through Pakhuis de Zwijger’s two-year programme Designing Cities for All.

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Watch our Fellowship livecast:
The introduction of our first DCFA Fellow Lyongo Juliana. This event started with the first public screening of the short documentary 'Op zoek naar inclusie in de architectuur' (Dutch, 14 min), by Lyongo Juliana and Pim Gelevert. The rest of the event will continue in English.
More about DCFA Fellow Lyongo
Lyongo Juliana fell in love with architecture when he was an Architectural Engineering student at the TU Eindhoven. Now, he is the director of OZ Caribbean. During his Architect in Residency period at ARCAM Architecture Centre Amsterdam, he investigated the degree of diversity and inclusiveness of architecture in Amsterdam. The outcome of his research: we need to pay more attention to the end user, regardless of ethnicity.
Watch the IdenCity livecasts:
In the IdenCity livecast series, Lyongo takes us along in his research on identity, architecture and design. How can architecture and design facilitate your identity and, the other way around – how can your identity shape the architecture of your surroundings?
More About IdenCity
Let these books and articles suggested by Lyongo guide your practice of transforming cities for the better.
Design from Inclusion

In earlier episodes of Designing Cities for All, we have seen that design is everywhere and everything around us is designed. We have also seen that there are flaws in these designs, because what we tend to do in this world is design for the middle and forget about the margins. Wouldn’t we create and build stronger structures for everyone if we would design for the people who are actually living with the failures of our designed products, spaces, and systems?

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Watch the Design from Inclusion livecasts:
Watch our DCFA advocates explaining how to design for all when it comes to designing Products & Services (3 May), designing Spaces (10 May), and designing Systems (17 May).
More about: Designing from Inclusion
Not being able to read small type on a screen as you age, soap dispensers that don’t respond to black skin, health trackers that don’t include the female cycles... What goes for products and services, the same goes for places and systems. Inclusion happens by design, or not at all.
Fellow #2: Dark Matter Labs on Transitioning Together

Indy Johar and Joost Beunderman are part of the team of Dark Matter Labs, a multidisciplinary design studio developing new working methods for system change. They are focused on the great transitions our societies need to respond to the technological revolution and climate breakdown we face. In Pakhuis de Zwijger’s two-year programme and starting April 2021, Indy and Joost discovered, designed, and developed the institutional ‘dark matter’ that supports a more democratic, distributed, and sustainable future, in which everyone – regardless of ability, ethnicity, gender, age, and cultural background – can participate with equal opportunities.

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Watch our Fellowship livecast:
See the introduction of our second DCFA Fellow Dark Matters Labs. For this event, Indy and Joost invited Liz Corbin of Metabolic Institute to join them in the studio.
Watch the Transitioning Together livecasts:
In the Transitioning Together livecast series, Dark Matter labs takes us along in their research on climate justice, democracy, and applying design thinking. How can we design legitimate and equitable pathways towards a climate-resilient and thriving future?
More about: Transitioning Together
The reality of the climate crisis and how it impacts our cities is fundamentally a question of social justice and democracy. A transition towards a climate just future has to be deeply inclusive – that is the big challenge for our democracies. As the risk of a destructive 3+ degrees temperature rise keeps growing, transitioning together is about the institutional infrastructures that enable systemic change: after all, climate change is not an isolated crisis, but a symptom of a system deeply out of balance. How can we design legitimate and equitable pathways towards a climate-resilient and thriving future?
Equity x Design

In this DCFA series, we see everyone as a (re)designer and host a dialogue with an interdisciplinary group of artists, researchers, activists, educators, and students to uncover equitable approaches to designing cities for all. How can we untangle different forms of exclusion rooted in design and (re)design a more equitable world, grounded in values of inclusion, trust, liberation, and healing?

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Equity X Design
Our DCFA advocates uncover how we can design for a more equitable world, grounded in values of inclusion, trust, liberation and healing, Redesigning the Mindset (27 Sept), Tools and Opportunities (4 Oct) and Intentional Intersectionality (11 Oct).
More about Equity X Design:
From buildings and products to policies, systems, and spaces – everything around us was once designed. In past DCFA episodes, we zoomed in on the challenges we are facing of individual, institutional, and systemic inequity, and highlighted that inclusion happens by design, or not at all. We have also seen that the dominant narrative of design and design thinking is often rooted in systems of oppression and exclusion. In this series, we look at the world through an intersectional lens and explore different design tools, practices and communities which facilitate an equitable mindset.
Fellow #3: Galit Ariel on Hacking the City

We are happy to welcome Galit Ariel as our next Fellow (September – December 2021)! In her DCFA Fellowship, Galit explores the impact of tech-infused urban environments on agency, representation, and self-expression, evoking new ways to hack the city (for good).

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Watch our Fellowship livecast:
See the introduction of our third DCFA Fellow Galit Ariel. For this event, Galit the Civic AI Lab and the Racism and Technology Center to join in the studio.
Watch the Hacking the City livecasts:
In the Hacking the City livecast series, Galit Ariel takes us along in her research on digital agency, representation, and self-expression.
More about: Hacking the City
Inequality and exclusion are also affected by how we define our digital world. This particular series is curated by techno futurist Galit Ariel, who wants to evoke new ways to hack the city (for good). Want to read more? Here are some articles to satisfy your appetite.
DCFA advocates
The Designing Cities for All activities are organised together with designers, scientists, experts, educational institutes, and other parties. Next is an overview of experts that have been involved in the research and activities. For ongoing thoughts about systems change & strategic experimentation, it's worth following them on their social media!
One Year of Designing Cities for All

To end and celebrate the first year of Designing Cities for All, we published 18 Perspectives on Designing Cities for All, an essay book in which all the authors are committed to creating cities of belonging, where everybody feels and is allowed to feel at home. These essays will help you understand how design is part of the problem, but also holds the key to the solution.

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Creating Cultures of Care

Imagine living in a city that looks after its inhabitants, takes care of its surroundings and enables people to care for themselves and others. What does such a city look like, how does it feel? In this series, we’re rethinking the city from a feminist and care perspective. Caring cities place people, health, safety, and collective wellbeing at the heart of decision making, emphasising the value of paid and unpaid care work for all.

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Watch the Creating Cultures of Care livecasts:
Watch our DCFA advocates explaining the concept of caring cities (31 Jan), how to redesign the mental health care system (7 Feb), and improving rituals of self-care in our daily lives (21 Feb).
More about: Creating Cultures of Care
With designers, researchers, artists, policymakers and activists we uncovered how we can (re)design cities, systems, spaces and human relationships to enable a culture of care grounded in values of compassion, empathy and equity for all. You can read more about these topics in the following articles.
Fellow #4: OneWorld on Redesigning Journalism

We are happy to welcome OneWorld as our first Fellow of 2022! In their DCFA Fellowship, editor-in-chief Seada Nourhussen and publisher John Olivieira take us with them on their mission to (re)design journalism. Together, we explore current power structures in the field and the concept of ‘journalism for justice’.

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Watch our Fellowship livecast:
See the introduction of our fourth DCFA Fellow OneWorld. For this event, Seada Nourhussen, the editor-in-chief of OneWorld, and John Olivieira, publisher of OneWorld, invited Studio Colorado to join them in the studio.
More about OneWorld
OneWorld is a magazine that focuses on journalism for justice. They are outspoken about injustice and inequality and bring awareness to topics such as human rights, identity, and sustainability. In their Fellowship, Seada and John take us on their mission to (re)design journalism. Together, we we explore current power structures in the field and the concept of ‘journalism for justice’.
Watch the Redesigning Journalism livecasts:
In the Redesigning Journalism series, Seada Nourhussen and John Olivieira focus on design flaws in journalism and explore solutions and practical changes to redesign it. Why is an ongoing conversation on the use of language and its exclusionary practice necessary? And how can you introduce such information in the best possible way?
More about: Redesigning Journalism
In the light of designing for all, language is one of the practices by which current power relations are established and sustained. As a society, we still use ableist, colonial, transphobic, homophobic, and gender-inequal language in our daily speech and writing. If you want to read more on these topics, here are some articles to enjoy!
Together We Design

Overused terms like participation, engagement, co-creation, involvement, and inclusion, to name a few, have always been a matter of concern in designing cities. However, what does intentional participatory design mean? And why should we practice it? In this series, we aim to rethink the city for and by everyone by discussing who the designer is, what barriers and challenges are to shift from the user to co-designer, and how to make a true impact.

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Watch the Together We Design livecasts:
Watch our DCFA advocates explaining the concept of co-design and who the designer is (4 April), the conflicts and power dynamics within co-design (25 April), and how to make tangible impact with co-design (2 May).
More about Together We Design:
Together with designers, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers we uncovered different components of participatory design within spaces, products, policies and systems.
Fellow #5: Daphina Misiedjan on Realising Environmental Justice

We are happy to welcome Daphina Misiedjan as our next Fellow! In her DCFA Fellowship, Daphina, who is an expert on environmental justice and human rights, takes us on her mission to (re)think the way people and the environment are related. Together, we’ll explore how different social and environmental circumstances can create inequalities on a local, regional and international level.

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Watch our Fellowship livecast:
See the introduction of our fifth DCFA Fellow Daphina Misiedjan. For the launch of this fifth fellowship, Daphina has invited two inspirational guests, with whom she’ll discuss the importance of environmental justice and the power of the law: Nawal Mustafa and Rosalba Icaza.
More about Daphina Misiedjan
Dr. Daphina Misiedjan is an assistant-professor in human rights and the environment at International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague and 2020/2021 Fellow at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS). In addition, she is an expert within the UN Harmony with Nature program. She specialises in issues concerning human rights and environmental justice, specifically concerning Environmental Justice within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Rights of Nature and Environmental Justice form local city and neighborhood perspectives.
Watch the Realising Environmental Justice livecasts:
Environmental Justice historically focused mostly the fair distribution of benefits and costs regarding environmental exploitation. Marginalised communities receive mostly the cost in the form of pollution while they contributed the least to environmental degradation. In the context of the Netherlands, environmental justice still requires elaboration and deepening. In these series, Daphina looks at the growing problem of air pollution and health disparities from the perspective of environmental justice.
More about: Realising Environmental Justice
With designers, researchers, artists, policymakers and activists we uncovered how we can (re)design cities, systems, spaces and human relationships to enable environmental justice for all. If you want to read more on these topics, here are some articles to enjoy!
DCFA advocates
The Designing Cities for All activities are organised together with designers, scientists, experts, educational institutes, and other parties. Next is an overview of experts that have been involved in the research and activities. For ongoing thoughts about systems change & strategic experimentation, it's worth following them on their social media!
Designing Education For All

When talking about designing future cities for all, we also need to take a close look at how the designers of the future are currently being educated. They will be partly responsible for what cities will look like in the future and who will live and belong in these cities. How is (design) education organised at the moment and is there enough awareness in the curriculum for exclusion by design and attention given to designing for inclusion? DCFA discusses these topics and more during this Designing Cities for All education series.

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Watch the Education For All livecasts:
Watch our DCFA advocates including teachers, researchers and students explaining the challenges we are facing of individual, institutional, and systemic inequity, and highlighting that inclusion happens by design, or not at all.
DCFA Advocates
The Designing Cities for All activities are organised together with designers, scientists, experts, educational institutes, and other parties. Here is an overview of experts that have been involved in the research and activities. For ongoing thoughts about education for all, it's worth following them on their social media!
Decolonising x Design

To design for all, it is essential to involve all stories and perspectives in the design process. Just like design, colonisation touches our daily lives. Decolonisation of design starts with breathing life into the multitude of stories in our society that have been erased and pushed to the margins of society – experiences of Indigenous People, LGBTQI+ perspectives, stories of enslaved people, just to name a few. In this series, we will explore the history of erasure, the manifestations of colonisation in the present, ultimately reimagining a just and decolonised society for all.

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Watch the Decolonising x Design livecasts:
Watch our DCFA advocates exploring the roots of colonisation and erasure of (hi)stories (19 Sept), how the colonial past is shaping our present society (26 Sept), and how we can facilitate collective healing and reshape the future (10 Oct).
More about Decolonising x Design
With artists, architects, activists, and more, we aim to highlight the voices of those who have been erased by the forces of colonisation and foster healing as we discuss how to craft a shared, decolonised future. If you would like to read more, check out these articles!
Fellow #6: de Chrononauten on Architectures of Trust

We are happy to welcome de Chrononauten as our last Fellows of 2022! In their DCFA Fellowship, de Chrononauten – a small collective consisting of futurists Edwin Gardner and Christiaan Fruneaux – (re)think the shape of trust and democracy in the digital age. Together, we explore the implications of a new (online and electronic) era on three levels: the public domain, public culture and public governance.

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Watch our fellowship livecast:
See the introduction of our sixth DCFA fellows de Chrononauten. For the launch of the sixth and final fellowship of 2022, we get to know de Chrononauten as they lay out their goals for their fellowship.
More about de Chrononauten
Edwin Gardner and Christiaan Fruneaux are two futurists who have been researching our era for over ten years. In the Atlas of the Long Now, they interpret our rapidly changing world from the perspective of the great history, the long now, and the deep future. If we stretch the moment we think we live in, to decades, centuries, and even millennia – what do we see? In 2012, they started Studio Monnik because they were curious about the contours of a truly sustainable and equal society. How could such a future society work and feel? And, in line with that question: how can you think about the future in a credible way at all? After five years of research, they presented the World Tree model, a historical-futuristic lens with which they could develop credible future scenarios. Ever since, they have been helping companies and governments to get a grip on the rapidly changing society.
Watch the Architectures of Trust livecasts:
In their Designing Cities for All Fellowship, de Chrononauten rethink the shape of trust and democracy in the digital age. Part I of this three-part series zooms in on the digital public domain, while part II focuses on the public culture within this digital domain. The final part of the series explores how we can foster institutional trust and establish a public governance in these digital spaces.
DCFA Specials

In Designing Cities For All, in addition to triptychs and fellowships, we made a series of specials: one-time programmes rather than three parts. In these specials, we took a close look at education for all, our sense of belonging and inclusive public spaces.

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Read More on Belonging Abroad:
With students, academics, and community members, we identified and discussed some of the significant barriers that international students face in the Netherlands. Check out these articles to learn more:
DCFA Specials Advocates
The Designing Cities for All activities are organised together with designers, scientists, experts, educational institutes, and other parties. Next is an overview of experts that have been involved in the research and activities of these specials. For uncovering inclusive public spaces, making sense of belonging, and more about the booktalks it's worth following them on their social media!
Floor van Ditzhuyzen
Architect, curator and researcher - Team W participant during design-charette Holendrecht
Özlemnur Ataol
Ph.D. Urbanism and Urban Architecture on child-focused inclusive urban environments
Jorn Wemmenhove
Urban Change Maker, Social Entrepreneur & Creative Strategist, Co-founder of Humankind
Maurik Stomps
Designer & Artist
Maartje Janse
Coördinator & Facilitator at Makers Unite's Creative Lab
Tom Loois
Curator & program maker at RAUM
Ineke Smits
Filmmaker & producer at Stout&Smits
Maggi Leung
Professor of International Development Studies at UvA & Co-Researcher 'Welcoming Spaces'
Xillan Macrooy
Singer & Songwriter
Pablo Sendra
Architect, urban designer and co-author of Designing Disorder
Lyongo Juliana
Architect and director at lyongo architecture
Shay Raviv
Curator Embassy of Inclusive Society, co-founder De Voorkamer
Roberto Rocco
Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy, Department of Urbanism at TU Delft
Caroline Newton
Houder Van Eesteren Fellowship Architect, stedenbouwkundige en politiek wetenschapper
Mariana Fix
Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo in Brazil
Lucia Coronel
Masterstudent of Urban Planning and Policy Design at Politecnico di Milano
Jere Kuzmanić
Assistant, Chair of Urbanism, FGAG, University of Split and Doctorand, DUOT, UPC-BarcelonaTech
Poorya Eghtesadi
Masterstudent of Architecture at KU Leuven
Niklas Michels
Masterstudent of Architecture at KU Leuven
Sashwati Ghosh
Graduate Student of Urban Planning and Policy Design at Politecnico di Milano
Ricardo Javier López Sánchez
Graduate Student of Architecture at KU Leuven
Ingi Mehus
Founder Pocket Stories, Project lead & Concept developer, Storytelling coach, Co-researcher, and Co-writer of Roots guide
Meghann Ormond
Associate Professor in Cultural Geography at Wageningen University
Daan Wurpel
Concept developer, Co-writer, Translator and editor Roots Guide
Rehab Eldalil
Documentary photographer, Concept developer, Visual storyteller, and Photographer of Roots Guide
Jennifer Tosch
Founder Black Heritage Tours in Amsterdam, Roots Guide storyteller & Guide
Funda Mujde
Comedian, Actress, Columnist, and Roots Guide storyteller & Guide
Marrit Schakel
Biodiversity activist, Farmer, and Roots Guide storyteller and Guide
Claudius McGill
Roots Guide storyteller & Guide
Razan Damlakhi
Roots Guide Storyteller, Guide & Roots Guide supporting team member
Wendy de Jong
Indo, Roots Guide Storyteller & Guide
Afaina de Jong
Founder AFARAI, architect
Amina Hassen
Associate at WXY & Founding Member of BlackSpace Urbanist Collective
Joseph Zeal-Henry
Designer, urbanist & co-host of Sound Advice
Arna Mačkić
Architect
Satyendra Pakhalé
Design and Architecture practice
Kevin de Randamie
Cultureel ondernemer en lid van het Topteam Creatieve Industrie
Sepp Eckenhausen
Co-director at Platform BK / Researcher at Institute of Network Cultures
Josien Pieterse
Founder and director of Framer Framed
Raul Balai
'El Bastardo' is an artist based in Amsterdam
Wilja Jurg
Directeur/bestuurder at Tetem kunstruimte
Gerbrand Bas
Oprichter Designlink & bestuurslid Federatie Dutch Creative Industries
Frank Kresin
Decaan Faculteit Digitale Media en Creatieve Industrie (HvA)
Annelys de Vet
Grafisch ontwerper en Hoofd Disarming Design Department aan het Sandberg Instituut
Wouter Stroet
Grafisch ontwerper, kunstenaar, activist
Wouter Pocornie
Architect, stedenbouwkundige en onderzoeker
Edwin Gardner
Futurist & co-founder of de Chrononauten
Nyasha Harper-Michon
Archtivist, Architect & Business developer
Jurgen Bey
Ontwerper, directeur Sandberg Instituut
Manon Poliste
Ontwerper & Adviseur Urban Strategy Inbo
Mike de Kreek
Docent Master Social Work, Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
Guido Stompff
Lector Design Thinking bij Hogeschool Inholland
Camila Pinzón Cortes
Urbanist bij Urbanos and Regional designer bij Provincie Noord-Holland
Bart Ahsmann
Directeur CLICKNL & Commissielid Ontwerp bij de Raad voor Cultuur
Dominique van Ratingen
Centre of Expertise Creative Innovation
Liam Young
Speculative architect, director & worldbuilder
Arne Hendriks
Designer & artistic researcher
Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti
Architect & Urban Planner, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Sao Paulo
Simbarashe Chereni
Governance, Planning, Land, and Disaster Resilience expert
Hubert Klumpner
Architect, Co-founder of URBAN-THINK TANK & Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at ETH Zurich
Luis Anibal Villegas
Venezuelan-Aruban Journalist, Artist-poet & Jurist in training
Seung Ju Kim
Psychology student & Podcast creator
Sophia Dittmar
Student & Erasmus Student Network committee member
Luis Bracamontes
Poet & Founder Unwanted Words
Deon Bisslik
Director and Co-Founder Kompas Foundation
Two Years of Designing Cities for All

In 2021 and 2022, Pakhuis de Zwijger’s research and activity programme Designing Cities for All (DCFA) has invited hundreds of inspiring designers, creatives, academics, policy makers and other experts to the table to discuss how we can create cities of belonging – where everyone feels at home. We’ve learned so much and zoomed in on so many dimensions of exclusion by design — architecture, climate, (digital) democracy, equity, technology, care, journalism, participatory and co-design, environmental justice, decolonisation, public spaces for all…

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Watch Back 2 Years of Designing Cities for All
This evening was full of talks, art, music, looking back and looking forward, and the launch of not one but two DCFA publications: the DCFA Principles and the 2022 DCFA Essay Book: More Perspectives on Designing Cities for All, with essays by 16 incredible DCFA advocates. Watch back the programme here!
Designing Cities for All Library

So you’re interested in what to read to become a better designer, architect, urban planner, urbanist, or neighbour living and working in a super-diverse city? Here are a few recommendations from our DCFA team, and we will add some periodically. For all you city designers who want to empower yourself (and others): let these reads guide your practice of transforming cities for the better. And guess what? You can order these books with a pretty neat discount* via our favourite bookstore Athenaeum!

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Watch our livecasts:
The DCFA Student Book Club is a platform where students can meet peers and explore different books related to design, cities, and inclusivity. In the DCFA Movie Club, we screen relevant documentaries and movies, discuss them together with guests, and talk about strategies and design solutions for our cities for all.
The DCFA Bookshelf
If available via Athenaeum Bookstore, you can use code 'DCFA2122' at the checkout. You get a 10% discount on non-Dutch publications! Click on the image to be referred to the shop.
Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald
By & For: Designing Inclusive Spaces
De Voorkamer
Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice
Meike Schalk, Thérèse Kristiansson & Ramia Mazé
How many female type designers do you know?
Yulia Popova
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez
Jij hebt ons niet ontdekt, wij waren hier altijd al
Massih Hutak
Maar waar kom je écht vandaan?
Robert Vuijsje
Mijn ontelbare identiteiten
Sinan Çankaya
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
Kat Holmes
OUR CITY? Countering Exclusion in Public Space
Stipo
Planet City
Liam Young
Race After Technology
Ruha Benjamin
Radical Markets
Erik A. Posner & E. Glen Wyl
Seeing like a State
James C. Scott
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life
David Sim
Superdiversiteit: Een nieuwe visie op integratie
Maurice Crul, Jens Schneider & Frans Lelie
The Code of Capital
Katharina Pistor
The Ideal City: Exploring Urban Futures
Gestalten & SPACE10
The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy
Sharon Zukin
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
The Precipice
Toby Ord
This Human: How to be the person designing for other people
Melis Senova
Van wie is de stad: De strijd om Amsterdam
Floor Milikowski
Emergent Strategy
Adrienne-Marie Brown
Holding Space
Aminata Cairo
De inclusiemarathon
Kauthar Bouchallikht en Zoë Papaikonomou
Glitch Feminism
Legacy Russell
Public Sphere and Experience
Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
The Green Imperative: ecology and ethics in design and architecture
Victor Papanek
Politics of Design
Ruben Pater
Rebel Cities
David Harvey
A Place to Stay
Shay Raviv
Challenging the City Scale
Cite du Design & CLEAR VILLAGE
Palaces for the People
Eric Klinenberg
Housing the Co-op
Rainer Hehl, Patricia Ventura and Sascha Delz
Architecture is a Social Act
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects
The Caring City
Juliet Davis
Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet
Elke Krasny and Angelika Fitz
Understanding Everyday Racism
Philomena Essed
The Fast Guide to Accessibility Design
Bares Raffaelli
Reclaiming the Media
Bart Cammaerts & Nico Carpentier
Journalism as Activism
Adrienne Russell
Extra Bold
Ellen Lupton & Jennifer Tobias
On Black Media Philosophy
Armond R. Towns
Too Big
Henk Ovink & Jelte Boeijenga
Play The City
Ekim Tan
Collaborate or Die
Martijn Pater & James Veenhoff
All We Can Save
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
A Bigger Picture
Vanessa Nakate
Decolonial Ecology
Malcom Ferdinand
Rainforest Warriors
Richard Price
There’s Something In The Water
Ingrid R. G. Waldron
Roots Guide
Meghann Ormond, Ingi Mehus, Rehab Eldalil, Daan Wurpel
A Manifesto for the Just City
Roberto Rocco, Caroline Newton, Luz Maria Vergara d’Alençon, Anja van der Watt
The Manipulative Education System
The Ascendant One
Design for Social Innovation
Mariana Amatullo, Bryan Boyer, Jennifer May, Andrew Shea
Building the Urban Environment
Harold L. Platt
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
Leslie Kern
Design Unbound
Ann M. Pendelton-Jullian and John Seely Brown
Afrofuturism
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