Can architecture be a tool for social change? We certainly believe so. Buildings and the spaces around them offer a considerable subconscious platform for the way in which people meet and interact. Buildings hold the power to wall people out or in, to stand as a landmark or meaning to group of people, to be a space of refuse or destruction. It can be a haven for marginalized communities, or a pedestal for the hierarchies of political agendas. Architecture is the set to the play of politics and economics. Photo 6 of 8 in Big Ideas for Cities Reach Chicago by Way of South Africa

Big Ideas for Cities Reach Chicago by Way of South Africa

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Can architecture be a tool for social change?

We certainly believe so. Buildings and the spaces around them offer a considerable subconscious platform for the way in which people meet and interact. Buildings hold the power to wall people out or in, to stand as a landmark or meaning to group of people, to be a space of refuse or destruction. It can be a haven for marginalized communities, or a pedestal for the hierarchies of political agendas. Architecture is the set to the play of politics and economics.