Reimagining Blackness and Architecture
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Reimagining Blackness and Architecture at Coursera Overview
Duration | 14 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Reimagining Blackness and Architecture at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level This course is open to everyone. You do not need any prior knowledge of architecture, art, or history to complete this course successfully.
- Approx. 14 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Reimagining Blackness and Architecture at Coursera Course details
- Architecture structures our daily lives. It shapes our homes, streets, neighborhoods, cities and more. But who gets to create and occupy these spaces? In the United States, a long history of anti-Black racism has created spatial inequalities that are built into the physical environment and erased the stories of Black architects and communities.
- Reimagining Blackness and Architecture explores the relationship between architecture and Blackness as an identity and a lived experience. You?ll hear directly from Black artists, architects, scholars, and writers who reimagine their surroundings and highlight the ways Black makers have changed the world. You?ll see how architects are working to transform American cities into more equitable places using everything from textiles, hip hop, and fiction to spices and spaceships. And you?ll hear from an international range of artists, who create spaces for their communities and make visible the stories of Black life in their work.
- The course is structured around five themes: Imagination, Care, Knowledge, Refusal, and Liberation. Each week, through original films, audio interviews, and readings, you?ll expand your understanding of architecture as a practice that reaches across time, place, and form. Creative activities and prompts for reflection will encourage you to consider your own role in shaping your communities.
- Course image credit:
- Dawoud Bey. A Couple at a Main Street Bus Stop, Rochester, NY. 1989. Gelatin silver print, 11 7/16 × 22 1/16" (29.1 × 56 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of Ruth Nordenbrook. © 2021 Dawoud Bey
Reimagining Blackness and Architecture at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction
Trailer for Reimagining Blackness and Architecture
Charles Davis on the expansive field of architecture
Adrienne Brown on the Reconstruction era
Kara Walker on 40 Acres of Mules, 2015
Deana Lawson on Nation, 2017
Welcome to the course!
Guide to Module 1
Getting started: How does this course work?
Interview with Sean Anderson and Mabel Wilson
An artist confronts history
The Black Reconstruction Collective
What is architecture?
Key terms
Optional readings and resources
Ground rules for engagement
Optional prompts for discussion, reflection, and creative response
Optional pre-course survey
Module 1 Quiz
Imagination
Walter J. Hood on Black Towers / Black Power
Germane Barnes on A Spectrum of Blackness
Pope.L on The Black Factory Archive, 2003?ongoing
Michelle Joan Wilkinson on representation and Black space
Garrett Bradley and Donna Crump on America, 2019
Introduction to this week
Walter Hood, Black Towers / Black Power
Germane Barnes, A Spectrum of Blackness
What is Blackness?
New ways of seeing
Advice for emerging architects and creatives
Optional readings and resources
Optional prompts for discussion, reflection, and creative response
Module 2 Quiz
Care
J. Yolande Daniels on Black City: The Los Angeles Edition
Sekou Cooke on We Outchea: Hip Hop Fabrications and Public Space
Audrey Petty on High Rise Stories
Zora J Murff on the series At No Point in Between, 2018?19
Betye Saar on "Keep for Old Memiors", 1976
Maren Hassinger on Leaning, 1980
Introduction to this week
J. Yolande Daniels, Black City: The Los Angeles Edition
Sekou Cooke, We Outchea: Hip Hop Fabrications and Public Space
The tender lenses of two photographers
Artists repurposing objects and salvaging materials
Optional readings and resources
Optional prompts for discussion, reflection, and creative response
Optional mid-course survey
Module 3 Quiz
Knowledge
Amanda Williams on We?re Not Down There, We?re Over Here
Olalekan Jeyifous on The Frozen Neighborhoods
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, 1940?41
Willie Cole on Domestic ID III and IV, 1991?92
Lorna Simpson on Wigs, 1994
Introduction to this week
Amanda Williams, We?re Not Down There, We?re Over Here
Olalekan Jeyifous, The Frozen Neighborhoods
Portfolio: Bodys Isek Kingelez
Portraits of yesterday
The magic of stories
Artifacts for the future
Optional readings and resources
Optional prompts for discussion, reflection, and creative response
Module 4 Quiz
Refusal
Emanuel Admassu on Immeasurability
Robert McNeill, The Bronx Slave Market series, 1937
V. Mitch McEwen on Philip Johnson, Architecture, and White Supremacy
Faith Ringgold on American People Series #20: Die, 1967
Robin Coste Lewis reads a poem on Barbara Chase-Riboud, The Albino, 1972
Melvin Edwards on Lynch Fragment Series, 1986?89
Introduction to this week
Emanuel Admassu, Immeasurability
V. Mitch McEwen, R:R
Artists making their own stories
Artists making their own path
Artists refusing expectations
Optional readings and resources
Optional prompts for discussion, reflection, and creative response
Module 5 Quiz
Liberation
Felecia Davis on Fabricating Networks: Transmissions and Receptions from Pittsburgh?s Hill District
Mario Gooden on The Refusal of Space
Justin Garrett Moore on Architectures of Difference
Hervé Télémaque on No title (The Ugly American)
Ibrahim El-Salahi, Prison Notebook, 1976
Introduction to this week
Felecia Davis, Fabricating Networks: Transmissions and Receptions from Pittsburgh's Hill District
Mario Gooden, The Refusal of Space
Searching for freedom
The power of printmaking
Optional readings and resources
Optional prompts for discussion, reflection, and creative response
Optional course completion survey
Module 6 Quiz
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