Join us for a transformative 3-part conversation series that aims to stimulate our imaginations and creativity around what our neighborhoods and cities could be, as well as how we can collectively contribute to the shaping of our shared places. Each event invites residents, practitioners, scholars, students, organizers, and curious minds to muse with our guests about how we might delve into this work at both the scale of the neighborhood and the city.

RNRC (Re-arranging the Neighborhood to Re-imagine the City ) is a part of DS4SI’s Design Gym programming, and we are excited to have it moderated by Darien Alexander Williams, Assistant Professor of Environmental & Climate Justice at Boston University.

On November 1st, we explore the dynamic world of "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place" and beyond with J.T. Roane. Roane’s book engages realms of working-class Black life, which nurtures intricate connection across the city's underground spaces and its set-apart locales. From spiritual spaces, to those of play, pleasure, work, and informality, Roane shows us how these seemingly divergent environments incubate a Black queer urbanism that produces a vibrant landscape of struggle and worldmaking. This conversation will underscore the centrality of place in Black collective creation.

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