PDA unlocks the potential of design, public art, place-keeping, and community engagement to elevate creative voice and advance equity in our neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, and the places we call home.
About Us
Taylor Holloway is a belonging designer, architect, educator, and social impact strategist.
As a mixed-race woman born in Los Angeles, raised in Santa Fe, and trained as an architect in Boston and Chicago, she found that prototypical architectural practice didn’t serve her desire to work closely with people to use design, art, and creativity to foster genuine belonging, to improve their lives and to improve their neighborhoods.
Her multicultural identity informs an interdisciplinary practice that develops equity-centered experiences, fostering healing, belonging, and collective imagination. Over two decades, she has developed people- and community-centered design strategies across the fields of architecture, public arts administration, disaster relief, and design education.
A design justice practitioner, she is a founding organizer of the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter U. Most recently, she served as Deputy Director of Prospect New Orleans, where she led teams expanding access to contemporary art in public space across Louisiana.
Taylor is currently an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning and a recent graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also the 2008 recipient of the Berenice Lapin Fellowship for Architecture, the Wellesley College 2008 Excellence in the Arts Award, the 2013 AIA Martin Roche Travel Fellowship, a 2016 AIA Jason Pettigrew Memorial Scholar, a 2019 Association for Community Design Fellow, and a 2022 Next City Vanguard. She holds a BA from Wellesley College and an M.Arch from the University of Illinois in Chicago.