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Black en Vogue

Tuskegee University welcomed Designing in Color with open arms, riveting conversation, and profound thoughts. Students attended "Black en Vogue" with the kind of enthusiasm DCo organizers thrive upon.

Voices

"Voices" challenged the audience to use empathy in their design - their responsibility as architects - as a means of generating spatial justice. The case studies the team presented the students enraptured them, and varied from the horrors of the Hamlet Chicken Processing Plant Fire to the optimistic potential of the Claiborne Cultural Innovation District.

For Us, By Us

Inspired by an article Designing in Color penned for the NOMA Conference, "Black en Vogue," the workshop linked Afrofuturism to a provocative past example, Floyd McKissick's utopic Soul City. Created in 1974, the project was envisioned as a southern utopia, made because - in McKissick's own words - "the black man has been searching for identity and destiny in the cities...He should be able to find it in the plains of Warren County."