“There are intimate connections between the places we build, the places that we lose, and the memories in-between both.”

Rania Qawasma, DAARNA Founder

Storytelling

  • A Conversation with Rania Webinar Series

    July 16, 2024

  • Rania's Story of Displacement and Design, AIA Article

    April 29, 2024

  • UNRWA USA World Refugee Day Conversation

    June 20, 2019

Our Services

  • Architecture and Urban Planning 

    We commit to applying architecture and planning practices toward the pursuit of justice, harm reduction, healing, connection, and liberation, through community-led design and trauma-informed practices. We offer the following: 

    • Design and Architecture - including housing, commercial and community public spaces 

    • Site Acquisition 

    • Research and Evaluation 

    • Construction Management 

    • Landscape Design

  • We commit to centering the voices of those directly harmed and impacted by white supremacy, anti-blackness, patriarchy, zionism, anti-semitism, and settler colonialism and violence worldwide and use tools including the following to uplift their voices: 

    • Community Workshops 

    • Facilitation 

    • Storytelling 

    • Art Making and Installations

    • Site Activation and Pop-Ups

  • We commit to striving towards global systems change and understand political advocacy and coalition building is vital to the movement. We use tools such as:

    • Teach-Ins

    • Toolkits

    • Trainings

    • Direct Actions

    • Community Advocacy and Representation