EP 21: Designing Equitable Places | Katherine Darnstadt

Katherine Darnstadt is the founder of Latent Design, a boutique
architecture and urban design firm leveraging civic innovation and
social impact to design more equitable spaces and systems. Since
founding her practice in 2010, Katherine and her firm have
prototyped new design systems to advance urban agriculture, support
small business, create spaces for youth makers, advance building
innovation and create public space frameworks. Concurrently, she is
the founder of Boombox, Chicago's first micro retail popup in a
shipping container. To date the program has supported over 150
small businesses and built new models of finance and policy to
support micro retail in Chicago. In addition, she recently
co-founded a community design nonprofit, Design Trust Chicago to
address ongoing spatial and social injustices in the built
environment.  Bon and Katherine talk about the role of
architecture in improving public health, repurposed buses acting as
mobile produce markets and redefining public spaces.