MLK Lecture: Deanna Van Buren, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces January 29 AT 6:00 PM

NOMAS presents the annual MLK Lecture: Deanna Van Buren, principal of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, a national leader in restorative justice design and based in Oakland, CA. This event will reflect on DJDS’s work in Detroit, including the Love Building, the Restorative Justice City, and plans for their first ground-up development. The conversation will explore who DJDS builds for and with, highlighting partnerships with nonprofits and communities, and how the practice positions itself as a mission-driven firm shaped by social, legal, and financial infrastructures. This lecture will offer insight to students seeking to orient their early careers toward socially just forms of practice.