EVENT PROGRAM

All Day | Exhibition: “Black Roots, The Family Tree” (Experiments Wall)

3:00 PM-10:00 PM | Check-In

4:00 PM-4:30 PM | Opening Ceremony / Address

4:30 PM-6:00 PM | Ancestral Fabrications: Crafting Collective Memory (Panel)

4:30 PM-6:00 PM | Memorializing Black Domesticity (Workshop)

6:30 PM-8:00 PM | Keynote: The Spider, The Rabbit and The Preacher Man

8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Reception: Beer & Drums (Evening Reception featuring a Drum Performance)

All Day | Exhibition: “Black Roots, The Family Tree” (Experiments Wall)

8:00 AM-9:30 PM | Check-In

8:00 AM-8:45 AM | Morning Refreshments

8:45 AM-9:00 AM | Morning Address: BiD Co-Chairs

9:00 AM-10:30 AM | Blueprints for Liberation: Black Infrastructures of Creation and Care (Panel)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM | Exhibition Visit: Tourmaline: Lives of a Pollinator (Carpenter Center)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM | Walking While Black (Tour)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM | (re)Assembling Memory: A Collaborative Tapestry of Biafra (Workshop)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM | Water Rights (Workshop)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM | Juxtaposition Arts: Sankofa : Regenerating Black Landscapes 2050 Workshop + Healing Pavilion (Workshop)

12:30 PM-2:30 PM | Lunch Break

12:30 PM-3:30 PM | Expo / Mentorship & Portfolio Review (First Floor, Gund Hall)

3:00 PM-4:30 PM | Grounds of Inheritance: Land, Law, and Sovereignties (Panel)

3:00 PM-4:30 PM | William and Russell CDC: A Model for Reparative Development (Workshop)

4:30 PM-5:00 PM | Coffee Break

5:00 PM-6:30 PM | Evening Keynote: Princess Adedoyin Talabi Faniyi, in conversation with Dr. Tracey E. Hucks

7:00 PM-7:30 PM | Closing Remarks: BiD Co-Chairs

7:30 PM-9:00 PM | Closing Reception

10:00 AM-11:30 AM | Tour of HOLD at the Radcliffe Yard
(10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138) 

12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Film Screening “Paint Me a Road Out of Here” & Discussion at Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium
(48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02139)

2:15 PM-3:30 PM | Playing “Abolitionist Futures” the game by Design As Protest in Piper Auditorium
(48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02139)

BSU and AfricaGSD will be hosting an informal 3rd day for this year’s conference. In traditions past, Black in Design has always had 3 days for the conference. Due to the current times, we must shift and adjust to keep creating spaces in which we celebrate and thrive. Join us for a tour of HOLD by Curry Hackett and Gabriel Soomar at the Radcliffe Institute, followed by a film screening “Paint Me a Road Out of Here” & discussion in Piper Auditorium, and a user testing of Design As Protest’s Game “Abolitionist Futures” designed by Kiki Cooper, christin hu, & Sophie Weston Chien.

HOLD acknowledges the complex relationship Black communities have had with enclosure. The installation both serves as a symbol of restrictions placed on Black mobility (including redlining, incarceration, and slavery) and highlights embracing spaces created by Black communities (such as the Black church, the front porch, and the hair salon). The artwork’s title references the cargo hold of a slave ship and the ways that many Black folks hold each other together in moments of celebration, solidarity, fear, and grief.

“Paint Me a Road Out of Here” explores the movement to end mass incarceration of Black women. The 50 year journey of women at Rikers Jail and a painting that leads the way out.

“Abolitionist Futures” is movement-building game designed to bridge the gap between designers, planners, policy makers, activists, and communities for learning how to organize to dismantle carceral infrastructures. This game is meant to foster communication, collaboration and a different way of thinking about the issue at hand and working together to develop solutions.