Building Dignity: The Essence of Advocacy

1,122 views · Published 29 September 2016 · 2:58 · Indexed 21 October 2026

Channel: Cooper Hewitt · 2016 · Education

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Building Dignity is a flexible and accessible online tool for advocates, architects, and policy makers. It aligns design strategies with emerging thinking on safety, healing, and empowerment for domestic violence survivors and their children.

This video is featured in the exhibition 'By the People: Designing a Better America,' on view at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum September 2016–February 2017.

Learn more at www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/by-the-people.

Video by Mahlum. Courtesy of WSCADV and Mahlum.

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