Last night, a panel discussion entitled "BAIDA x Frontier Design - Building Up Black Futures" was held in collaboration with the Toronto Society of Architects. A nonprofit group of #students, #planners, #interiordesigners, and #architects from all over #Canada makes up the BAIDA (Black Architects + Interior Designers Association) Canada. The mission of BAIDA is to promote inclusion, equity, and diversity in the field of architecture and interior design. Over the previous year, BAIDA had been collaborating with Frontier, a creative exploration company, to reimagine its future.

In a panel moderated by Toronto Society of Architects’ Programming Director, Joël León Danis, featuring Frontier’s Founder, Paddy Harrington, and BAIDA Co-Founders Shane Laptiste, Principal of SOCA (Studio of Contemporary Architecture), and Farida Abu-Bakare, Director of Global Practice of WXY Studio, discussed the past five years of the organization and what the future holds.