Vayle Khalaf incorporates equity into design to intentionally organize, advocate, and design spaces of environmental, social, and cultural justice throughout the built environment. She recognizes the impact design has on communities and approaches it as a tool for collective liberation. She believes that our ways of living, working, healing, and thinking are the critical connection between us and our visions for an equitable future.
She supports Third Place Design Co-operative’s mission by participating in creating imaginative futures as cornerstones of shaping space. This comes with a love for visual storytelling and facilitating community dialogue to collaborate and build authentic relationships. Working with Third Place Design Co-operative fulfills her aspirations to create meaningful change in her community through design activism and building collective power.
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Teleportation – I want to see and travel the world. I also want to be with my loved ones as at any given moment. I promise this is not just because I am always running late.
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My favorite space is Jazz Festival in New Orleans. You can see, taste, hear, smell, and feel the presence of a vibrant and rich community and culture here. I often find myself daydreaming about seeing live music here with a fried soft-shell crab po-boy in hand, surrounded by my friends and family.
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I want to help shape life in my community for the better. Local soil and local culture are intimately related. There has been an uprooting and displacement of culture and communities. I am always motivated to figure out how we can reclaim space, weave the community together, and maintain cultural roots.
Vayle Khalaf
CPHC
Co-op Member
Associate
“Liberated relationships are one of the ways we actually create abundant justice, the understanding that there is enough attention, care, resource, and connection for all of us to access belonging, to be in our dignity, and to be safe in community.”
—Adrienne Maree Brown
