D.C. PUBLIC CLASS RECAP!
A HOOD CENTURY Survey....
D.C!! Wowww. Blown away.
Our 1st time taking our BLACK MODERNISM 101 PUBLIC CLASS on the road and the response was special.
Yall were in your seats ready at 6:45!! Gave energy all night, asking questions. It was really that call and response vibe we intended.
We bout to announce a TOUR!! So let us know what cities yall think we should go to? And! We thinking about starting a SUMMER SCHOOL online!! Would yall be into that?
Wanted to share some vibes here from DC to thank everyone who came out.
These public classes come from the curriculum we built this year called “Discovering Black Modernism: in Architecture, Design and Popular Culture”. We shared a bunch of our case studies, our ethos on language, and what even is “modernism” or “black modernism.”
We intro’d our “DEEP LISTENING” part of class, where we had open conversation all about us and the city. Yall neighborhoods, infrastructure, whats going happen to the family crib….
At hood we called 2025 the “year of the index”.
We really wanna be surveying more on our Du bois shit. So we working on that. Peep these scans of some of our D.C. survey cards!!
If you came to the class leave us a note here on what u saw, felt, took from the conversation.
and if anyone can help us document these public classes better - let us know! Lol.
P.S IF YOU WANT US TO COME TO YOUR CITY NEXT, SAY DAT!! Shouts Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Atlanta!! We otw.
-Coop.
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Written by Coop. Edited by Savannah.
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So sad I missed this! Will there be more DMV events?