Introduction-Introduction
Welcome to the course!
Trailer for Reimagining Blackness and Architecture
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Guide to Module 1
Getting started: How does this course work?
Interview with Sean Anderson and Mabel Wilson
Charles Davis on the expansive field of architecture
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Introduction-Revisiting the past, redefining architecture
Adrienne Brown on the Reconstruction era
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An artist confronts history
Kara Walker on 40 Acres of Mules, 2015
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Deana Lawson on Nation, 2017
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The Black Reconstruction Collective
What is architecture?
Introduction-Read and review
Key terms
Optional readings and resources
Recordings of virtual sessions (optional)
Ground rules for engagement
Optional prompts for discussion, reflection, and creative response
Optional pre-course survey
Imagination-How can imagining bring us together?
Introduction to this week
Walter Hood, Black Towers / Black Power
Walter J. Hood on Black Towers / Black Power
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Germane Barnes, A Spectrum of Blackness
Germane Barnes on A Spectrum of Blackness
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What is Blackness?
Pope.L on The Black Factory Archive, 2003–ongoing
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Imagination-How can representation empower people?
Michelle Joan Wilkinson on representation and Black space
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New ways of seeing
Garrett Bradley and Donna Crump on America, 2019
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Advice for emerging architects and creatives
Imagination-Read and review
Optional readings and resources
Optional prompts for discussion, reflection, and creative response
Care-How do you build a community of care?
Introduction to this week
J. Yolande Daniels, Black City: The Los Angeles Edition
J. Yolande Daniels on Black City: The Los Angeles Edition
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Sekou Cooke, We Outchea: Hip Hop Fabrications and Public Space
Sekou Cooke on We Outchea: Hip Hop Fabrications and Public Space
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Care-What does care look like?
Audrey Petty on High Rise Stories
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The tender lenses of two photographers
Zora J Murff on the series At No Point in Between, 2018–19
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Artists repurposing objects and salvaging materials
Betye Saar on "Keep for Old Memiors", 1976
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Maren Hassinger on Leaning, 1980
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Care-Read and review
Optional readings and resources
Optional prompts for discussion, reflection, and creative response
Optional mid-course survey
Knowledge-How do you build better worlds?
Introduction to this week
Amanda Williams, We’re Not Down There, We’re Over Here
Amanda Williams on We’re Not Down There, We’re Over Here
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Olalekan Jeyifous, The Frozen Neighborhoods
Olalekan Jeyifous on The Frozen Neighborhoods
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Portfolio: Bodys Isek Kingelez
Knowledge-How do you build tomorrow?
Portraits of yesterday
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, 1940–41
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The magic of stories
Artifacts for the future
Willie Cole on Domestic ID III and IV, 1991–92
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Lorna Simpson on Wigs, 1994
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Knowledge-Read and review
Optional readings and resources
Optional prompts for discussion, reflection, and creative response
Refusal-How do you reclaim the story of a place and community?
Introduction to this week
Emanuel Admassu, Immeasurability
Emanuel Admassu on Immeasurability
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V. Mitch McEwen, R:R
V. Mitch McEwen on R:R
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Artists making their own stories
Robert McNeill, The Bronx Slave Market series, 1937
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Refusal-How do you preserve stories that have been erased?
V. Mitch McEwen on Philip Johnson, Architecture, and White Supremacy
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Artists making their own path
Faith Ringgold on American People Series #20: Die, 1967
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Artists refusing expectations
Robin Coste Lewis reads a poem on Barbara Chase-Riboud, The Albino, 1972
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Melvin Edwards on Lynch Fragment Series, 1986–89
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Refusal-Read and review
Optional readings and resources
Optional prompts for discussion, reflection, and creative response
Liberation-How do you build a dream?
Introduction to this week
Felecia Davis, Fabricating Networks: Transmissions and Receptions from Pittsburgh's Hill District
Felecia Davis on Fabricating Networks: Transmissions and Receptions from Pittsburgh’s Hill District
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Mario Gooden, The Refusal of Space
Mario Gooden on The Refusal of Space
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Liberation-What does liberation look like?
Justin Garrett Moore on Architectures of Difference
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Searching for freedom
Hervé Télémaque on No title (The Ugly American)
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Ibrahim El-Salahi, Prison Notebook, 1976
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The power of printmaking
Sheldon Gooch on Wangechi Mutu’s “Eve”
Liberation-Read and review
Optional readings and resources
Optional prompts for discussion, reflection, and creative response
Optional course completion survey