Black in Design 2023: The Black Home | Re-membering Home: Critical Fabulations and Imaginations of _
This panel will explore the work of imagining and designing for realities that do not yet exist and discuss approaches to building afro-futurist worlds that can gracefully hold Black homes. What role do artists and designers play in the vision of the Black home? How does the process of spatial imagination and reimagination inspire the Black home? What aspects of the past should we leverage to create future Black homes, and what should we leave behind?
Panelists: Nekita Thomas, Uchechi Anomnachi, Sydney Rose Maubert
Moderator: Eric Williams
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The Black in Design conference, organized by the Harvard Graduate School of Design African American Student Union (GSD AASU), recognizes the contributions of the African diaspora to the design fields and promotes discourse around the agency of the design professions to address and dismantle the institutional barriers faced by Black communities. The fifth biannual conference, The Black Home, will take place in person September 22 – 24, 2023 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Yaad, ile, lakay. All languages have a word for home, shelter, a claim to a place, to a delineated territory of heritage. However, the experience of Black people across the world has created a unique yet divergent practice of creating and claiming home. This year’s Black in Design conference explores the Black home’s multidimensionality — as a literal structure that shelters, as a reflection of culture and traditions, and as spaces that are not entirely physical. The conference brings together keynote panels, workshops, and conversations that discuss and expand these themes with different thought leaders involved in designing and creating various interpretations of Black homes. The goal is to establish a broader understanding and alternate ways of experiencing the Black home in an effort to reinforce the ideals of Black communities living across the country and larger diaspora and to help plan for the future.
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