{"id":1,"date":"2020-01-07T20:50:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/?p=1"},"modified":"2020-01-07T14:16:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T21:16:44","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/2020\/01\/07\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"MANIFESTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Who are we?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FaFa is a student-run organization within the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia seeking to engage and challenge the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mono-cultural attitudes and conversations<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> predominant in design practice and architectural education.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why do we exist?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a field traditionally driven by myopic discussions on how we understand and shape our built environment, we seek to create space for underrepresented voices in design culture. We wish to add to the conversation started by groups who have previously challenged the status quo in architectural practice, as we look past our academic lives and towards our future careers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is our mandate?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FaFa is dedicated to seeking creative answers to the following challenges:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating space for underrepresented voices and perspectives in SALA<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ensuring equal access opportunities for all SALA students<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encouraging and promoting diversity within leadership and mentors<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Empowering members to explore non traditional methods of design and ways of envisioning their environments\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supporting change in compensation and identification of value in the professional workplace<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>What is feminism to us?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uplifting all voices which are often repressed in the culture of architectural education including all sexualities, abilities, and genders<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Who is this open to? (who is this for?)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former students<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women and female-identifying people<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Men and male-identifying people<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nonbinary, cisgender, gay + queer people<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Everyone!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are we? FaFa is a student-run organization within the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia seeking to engage and challenge the mono-cultural attitudes and conversations predominant in design practice and architectural education. Why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/2020\/01\/07\/hello-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}