It Starts With Home
We believe everyone has the right to a healthy, safe, and secure place to call home.
We help forcibly displaced families heal, adjust, and build their new communities by using design thinking to provide the tools, resources, and methods to empower them to improve their lives and livelihood.
We know social equity and community-based designs are the solution to ending displacement.
Our goal is to help people heal, dream, and create a better future for themselves and their families
Our Services
Archiving & Storytelling
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Direct support for community and professional archivists and historians in the preservation of historical and cultural architectural landmarks
Produce and share archival images through the Daarna Print Shop
Architecture & Urban Planning
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Design services for housing, commercial, and community spaces.
Support navigating planning permitting processes, site research and evaluation, and construction management
Political Education & Community Engagement
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Host educational workshops to connect design justice with legislative advocacy.
Create guidebooks to engage community members.
Build coalition with values aligned organizations, collectives, and individuals.
Open Call for Collaboration!
Our mission at daarna is to disrupt and dismantle dominant, exclusionary practices in design and our built environment and make tangible contributions towards a liberated world. We seek to collectively apply the knowledge of our professional and personal practices to dismantle all systems of oppression. We are actively seeking opportunities to collaborate with like minded people to liberate our built environment one project at a time.
This is an open invite to work in collaboration with us! If you have a project that you are interested in applying to but are in need of 501c3 status, project mentorship, partnership, or technical assistance please reach out via this form, a daarna team member will be in touch!
Statement on 76 Years of Ongoing Genocide
Daarna is in allyship with the people of Palestine and those who have expressed their horror at the violence being wrought on Palestine and its people. We join in unanimity with those who have publicly announced their support for solidarity with the Palestinian people - exposing the ongoing Genocide as inseparable from struggles against racism, patriarchy, and settler colonial violence worldwide. A year ago Daarna, among countless institutions, organizations, and groups, joined the chorus of voices demanding an end to Israeli occupation.
As the one-year mark of the ongoing genocide passes, we reaffirm our commitment to Palestinian’s and all colonized people’s liberation and share the following Partnership and Community Principles which are the foundation for Daarna’s work moving forward. It is important now more than ever that our partners’ and collaborators’ positions on Palestinian liberation are as clear and direct as our own. As Mariame Kaba says, anything worth doing is worth doing together. Commitment to radical change is a constant and life-affirming relationship. We ask all of our partners to sign on to the following:
Partnership and Community Principles
Project Spotlight:
HOME: From Palestine to Turtle Island
An interdisciplinary project weaving together threads of solidarity, resilience, and liberation for all colonized people from Palestine to Turtle Island. Focused on art and cultural archiving paired with creating spaces for political education and collective healing, the project builds intersectional solidarity, encourages divestment from colonial industries, and provides direct support to impacted communities.