Black Community Resilience Project

Type: Travel Research

Location: Europe, USA, Caribbean.

Status: In Progress May 2023 - December 2025

Award: Prix de Rome in Architecture — Professional

The Black Community Resilience project explores built spaces of the Black Atlantic. The work will take us to Western Europe, the English-speaking Caribbean and the Northeast/Midwest USA. We aim to take an intersectional approach through a Black diasporic lens in studying housing justice, Black community space, and climate justice. We'll investigate how various communities have established spaces of care and gathering through and in spite of architectural interventions. By probing these three themes in isolation and conjunction, we intend to learn and disseminate knowledge gained from this experience.
Building on our Professional Prix de Rome award, we will explore the spatial narratives of sites ranging from 200-year-old Black churches in Ontario, to Community-built Housing in London, to neighbourhood-wide art interventions in Chicago, to climate-resilient housing in St John Parish, Barbados.
Get in touch with suggestions as we continue these explorations.

 
 

Cattel House, Barbados.

 
 

With Alyssa-Amor Gibbons, St. John, Barbados.

 
 
 
 

Map of New World, Sebastian Munster, 1552 - National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, JA.

 

Community Dinner, Bijlmer, Amsterdam.

 
 
 

Community Dinner, Bijlmer, Netherlands

 
 
 

Touring Bijlmer, Amsterdam

 

Come in Love, stay in peace, by RESOLVE Collective, Brixton, UK.

 
 
 
 
 

With Jonathan Hagos of Freehaus, London, UK.

 

Autograph Gallery, London, UK.

 
 

Brixton, London, UK.

 

Brixton Market, London, UK.

 
 
 

The Africa Centre, London, UK.

Nubia Way Black Housing Co-op, London, UK.