RESOURCES
READ / The BlackSpace Manifesto
LISTEN / Dr. Mabel O. Wilson, Architect and Scholar (The Institute of Black Imagination Podcast)
WATCH / Segregated by Design
CLICK / Mapping Police Violence
CURRENTLY EXPLORING
CRITICAL SOURCES
These featured sources have been a source of inspiration and were particularly helpful throughout our project. Our project aims to build on and support this amazing existing work, using architectural representations and animation to view the information in a new way.
MAPPING PREJUDICE
Mapping Prejudice is a crowd-sourced effort led by geographers, historians, digital humanists, and community activists aiming to unearth and record racial covenants through mapping.
Team: Kirsten Delegard, Ryan Mattke, Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, Penny Petersen, Marguerite Mills, Denise Pike, + many volunteers
MAPPING INEQUALITY
Mapping Inequality is a collaborative effort to digitally archive the histories and policies of redlining, urban renewal, and other practices in order to understand their impacts and their continual contributions to inequities and wealth disparities today.
Team: the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, Virginia Tech, the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) at the College of Information Studies at University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University
A Right to Establish a Home Exhibit is a former physical exhibit that explores the Edith and Arthur Lee family’s experience buying a house in South Minneapolis in the 1930’s, the racism and violence that ensued, and the historic and present-day relationship of housing and race in Minnesota.
Team: Greg Donofrio, Laurel Fritz
Community Collaborators: Stearline Rucker, Field Regina Northrop Neighborhood Group
A RIGHT TO ESTABLISH A HOME
OWNING UP
Owning Up: Racism and Housing in Minneapolis is a digital and former physical exhibit that explores the current issues and history of racial housing discrimination and segregation in Minneapolis, along with the policies and social practices that shaped it.
Team: Denise Pike + Kacie Lucchini Butcher
Exhibit Design Team: Design & Agency/Augsburg University, David Baboila, Keeyona Fox, Indra Ramassamy
Advisory Board: Kirsten Delegard, Greg Donofrio, Kevin Murphy
CITATIONS
Urban Determinants is a group Master's Final Project for the Master of Architecture Program at the University of Minnesota designed by
Ashleigh Grizzell, Erin Kindell, MacKenzie Kusler and Adam Rosenthal and advised by Vahan Misakyan.