A space for mediation is then both: a design process that allows space to be socially thought, collectively built, and individually embraced, and a place for active listening, making agreements, providing social support, and dealing with conflict. It is an opportunity for opening spaces for Justice by exploring architectures that can take different forms. It is a learning process to position ourselves in the world and create the reality we want to live in. Spaces for meditation challenge the architect to stop thinking of space only as an object. But instead, to think of it from the stories and histories that have shaped it. From its process and its capacity to hold anybody’s stories. It is a personal challenge to tell stories rather than describe buildings. The story I am presenting highlights how real-life communities have already been writing alternative stories. In resistance to the seemingly dominant story of imperialist violence and oppression, they have been writing and weaving them for a long time. Thus, the theory becomes secondary to the action itself. The defending of real-world water and the healing of real-world community forces con-tinue to threaten in the name of a tragically limited idea of progress. But then, how to meditate here? What has to do with design in that task? And most importantly, what’s my role? Fall Semester: The purpose of this project is both; a reflection on how space can be designed based on methodolo-gies, techniques, and principles of narrative practices. And a proposal to learn how spatial Justice can be archived through rituals and mediation processes, just like Restorative Justice does. With those aims, I question how storytelling can mediate in archiving spaces where more Just relationships are possible. But this process requires a story to be told. In the case studies, the stories were told by the owners themselves or their people and a special ac-knowledgment of the territory and the relationships within. At its core, this project is a personal chal- lenge to tell my story rather than describe the idea of a building or design I have. However, because it is my story, the design needs to be connected to me, the story, and the technic that better fits. This task will require me to design “a carrier bag” that spatially holds and tells my story. This project intends to create a device that is a protocol for examining one’s personal story, the standpoint as a practice to move forward with a higher level of understanding of the design practice. Engaging with people and territories through empathy. It is also a method to learn how to negotiate different perspectives and envision new ways to operate as a citizen and designer. This project is a form of Justice. It is a space where Justice takes the shape of emancipation and freedom, a place to tell stories and re-write narratives.Hybrid course sections will be delivered both online and in-person. Required online synchronous meeting times are listed as the meeting pattern for this course section. Additional course components will be delivered asynchronously or in-person as outlined in the syllabus. 

• A student enrolled in a hybrid course can only meet the in-person requirements with physical presence.
• The in-person component is integral to successful completion of the course. 
• All students enrolled in the hybrid course are subject to the same in-person requirements.

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