About
The Harlem Place Memory & Culture Archive empowers Harlem’s intergenerational community and culture-makers to document, share, access, and connect over Harlem’s living cultural landscape. The Archive collects, organizes, and hosts digitized cultural assets of Harlem’s place-based histories, prioritizing the wide-ranging preservation work of Harlem’s Black, African, and Afro-Caribbean communities, and facilitates access through the Living Digital Archive website. The Archive aims to actively resist colonial archival gatekeeping practices and celebrate expressive culture, organizing, and community-building efforts that transform, reclaim, and preserve the built environment and heritage of Harlem.
The Harlem Place Memory & Culture Archive was initiated by the Spitzer School of Architecture’s Place, Memory, and Culture Incubator (PMCI), in collaboration with Caribbean Center Africa Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), Save Harlem Now!, The Harlem Cultural Archives, Uptown Grand Central, and an expanding ecosystem of Harlem community partners and archive projects. The Harlem PMCA is an independently stewarded archive.
If you or your organization is interested in partnering with this project or hosting content, please email us at harlemdigitalarchive@gmail.com.