Generative Histories Harlem, pt. 2: Studio

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Title
Generative Histories Harlem, pt. 2: Studio
Type
Studio Course
Creator
Haferd, Jerome
Description
Spring 2025 Place, Memory & Culture Incubator studio, taught by Jerome Haferd.
Contributor
Brahmbhatt, Viren
Eirabie, Anoushe
Hackett, Curry
Zigbi-Johnson, Najha
Subject
135th Street Corridor
Temporal Coverage
January 2025 - May 2025
Date Created
2025-01-05
Abstract
What is “history”, and how do we engage cultural material as designers of the built environment? Architecture is both a cultural practice and a cultural product. Thus, we architects can and should be in dialogue with other forms of cultural production. Generative Histories Harlem is the second iteration of an innovative new course, initiated last year, based on the question : how do we (architects) understand, incorporate, and “image” living history in our pedagogy, approach and our design expression which shapes the built environment of places like Harlem. This course will be the second of a new iteration of Core IV studios supported by the Place, Memory, and Culture Incubator at SSA. This expansive pedagogy is to innovate how we center culture, community, and living history not only in how we preserve, but also how we design and imagine culturally resilient spatial futures for the city. Generative Histories: Harlem, will look to Harlem 135th street’s architectural and cultural landscape as a starting point for changing the way we teach and “do” design and preservation. The main effort of the spring course is 1) document and map Harlem and 135th street’s tangible and intangible landscape in new and exciting ways, 2) to test and develop new means to translate Harlem’s historic and living cultural material into design - for the future physical, human landscape of 135th street, and 3) do this work in dialogue with community actors.

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