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Field Session

Equity and Inclusion

MON-FS-08: Into the Streets—Queer and Antiracist Histories in New Orleans’ French Quarter

Monday, October 13, 2025
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Field Session Departure Area
Ticket Purchase Required Extensive Walking
2.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW
Ticket Price: $49 per person
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans, LA, courtesy Chris Daemmrich, Collaborative School of Design

New Orleans’ French Quarter is famed for its food, music, and architecture. Often erased are the ways that people who are Indigenous, of African descent, women, and queer/LGBTQIA+ have created and changed this place. Participants will learn and share strategies for surfacing similar histories through their work, through design justice principles and antiracist practice.

Experience an exclusive, hands-on field session—limited to just 25 participants.

Accessibility: This session requires extensive walking.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn how to effectively read historical and ongoing systems of power, such as colonialism, anti-Blackness, anti-immigrant xenophobia, patriarchy, and anti-LGBTQIA+ oppression, within the landscape of a city.
  • Learn about types of histories necessary to accurately represent systems of power, and strategies for discussing those systems with clients and the public.
  • Learn about places to find resources about how systems of power affect people and places, such as historical records and community organizations.
  • Practice sharing about your own work in the context of systems of power.