The Rooted Design Fellowship is an interdisciplinary fellowship for creators, spanning industries and practices including the built environment, agrarians, community organizer, artists, and musicians.

It is run in partnership between Open Architecture Collaborative and Foxfire Ranch. Deep in North Mississippi Hill Country, fellows will grow their practice of relationship driven design, community engagement, and traditional and embodied design practices while building community with one another.

Over the course of a two years, fellows create shared mindsets, foundational learning, and infrastructure visioning for that will support building projects, growing climate resilient stewardship practices, and cultural preservation at Foxfire Ranch. And benefit Foxfire Ranch’s community of Black, Indigenous, and brown land sites in the region.

This fellowship grew out of our pilot Equity in Practice Fellowship run in 2023-2024,. Our reflections and feedback from the fellows led us to create this partnership with Foxfire Ranch. You can learn about the pilot cohort and fellowship projects here.

Application cycle is currently closed.