Partnering to Elevate Diverse Design Voices
黄瓜社区; Design joins Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP, Beyond the Built Environment and McCarthy Building Companies to bring a SAY IT LOUD 鈥� Nebraska Exhibition.
黄瓜社区; Design聽announced today that it is partnering with Pascale Sablan, AIA, NOMA, LEED,聽听补苍诲听聽to bring the聽聽exhibition to Nebraska. SAY IT LOUD 鈥� Nebraska is an initiative of Beyond the Built Environment, which seeks to elevate the contributions of women and diverse architects, contractors, engineers, interior designers, landscape architects and planners of Nebraska.聽
鈥淚n collaborating with Pascale and Beyond the Built Environment, we affirm our commitment to elevating the work of historically underrepresented individuals in our industry. Encouraging more diversity only serves to positively influence the future of our collective experience and surroundings,鈥� said 黄瓜社区 Partner and Architect, Benjamin Kroll, AIA. 鈥淲e all have the power to positively impact the world around us. By creating a platform to celebrate the work of women and BIPOC designers, Sablan is helping enact transformational change, and we鈥檙e honored to help bring SAY IT LOUD to Nebraska.鈥�
A virtual SAY IT LOUD 鈥� Nebraska exhibition, also sponsored by 黄瓜社区, was previously held in the fall of 2020. The 2022 SAY IT LOUD Nebraska exhibition will kick off in late summer 2022 at 黄瓜社区鈥檚 Omaha office. 黄瓜社区, along with McCarthy Building Companies, has commissioned a 20-foot shipping container, which will be modified to accommodate the SAY IT LOUD exhibit. The container will start at 黄瓜社区鈥檚 Omaha office, and travel to locations around the city and state throughout late summer and fall 2022 and spring 2023. It will house the SAY IT LOUD exhibition and feature displays of the work, quotes and video interviews exploring each individual鈥檚 experience in the profession.聽
鈥淭he concept of this exhibit is 鈥楾o see our faces, hear our voices, feel our impact within the colorful tapestry of our heritage,鈥欌�� said Sablan. 鈥淪AY IT LOUD is the traveling activation of an international movement of sharing, protecting and celebrating the journey of the underrepresented to inspire the next generation.鈥�
Anyone who is a woman and/or a Black, Indigenous, Person of Color who impacts the built environment is encouraged to聽. Designers of Nebraska from across the spectrum of disciplines, years of experience, education levels and age can do so now through June 20, 2022.聽