Welcome, consider this your greeting at our virtual front door!
Take a breath, take off your shoes, and come in. Did you eat yet?
Department of Beloved Places (Dept.of Places) strengthens spaces with Beloved Community, so our neighborhoods reflect our cultural practices and collective identity.
Dept of Places is built on the foundation that everybody, especially Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, should shape our own neighborhoods, and live in equitably resourced communities.
Dept. of Places is a design practice directed by Theresa Hyuna Hwang (she/her/hers), a community-engaged architect based on occupied Tongva land (Los Angeles, CA USA)