Black Community Resilience Project
Type: Research Project
Location: Europe, USA, Caribbean.
Status: In Progress May 2023 - August 2024
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.