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Plantation Plots: What are our Decolonizing Designs?
The plantation is both architecture and the story we tell about it-place and plot. Sylvia Wynter describes the plantation as the master design for race and socioeconomics for the Americas. However, “plot” for Wynter also refers to the tiny piece of land allocated to Black people on the plantation. There-in Black people cultivated not only survival, but also epistemologies and connections to land, joy, love, and resistance. In the plot, Katherine McKittrick provocatively suggests, the plantation bears a Black future. This talk will build upon offerings by Black feminist architects and writers, to consider decolonizing designs across multiple meanings of the word “plot”: the narrative arc of a story, a plot of land, a conspiracy, and an architectural plan. K. Wayne Yang will touch on examples such as the Indigenous Futures Institute, Earthseed Laboratories, and the Land Relationships Super Collective. Attendees will be invited to converse about our own plots / decolonizing designs.