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) holds space for Beloved Community to design places of well-being. We strengthen, protect, and reimagine our Beloved Places to 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)