How we use land reflects the values of our society and their culture. Land always holds multiple histories and multiple futures. But the narratives created about land are not always complete. In the article, The Crucial Difference Between Story and Narrative, the author writes, “If story is “an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment,” narrative is the choice of which events to relate and in what order. Put simply, narrative is how we choose to tell a story. We apply different narratives to the same story all the time”.
This is particularly true of the neighborhoods still recovering from the legacy of urban renewal, urban erasure and chronic disinvestment. Land Narratives & Protopian Futures: From Fictions to the Just City, Toni L. Griffin will share insights on the importance of uncovering the layers of land histories – cultural, political, economic and social – as essential to designing more restorative, reparative and just cities for and with the people most harmed by exclusion, extraction, and erasure.
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