Harvard GSD | Save the date for our 5th biennial BiD conference, The Black Home, which will take place on September 22 - 24.

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SAVE THE DATE: September 22 – 24, 2023! The BiD Conference is back! This year’s theme, The Black Home, explores the Black home’s multidimensionality — as a literal structure that shelters, as a reflection of culture and traditions, and as spaces that are not entirely physical.
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The Black in Design 2023 Conference Program is now available on blackindesign.org (#linkinbio)! The following questions guide each Conference day: 1. How do we celebrate the Black home; 2. How do we make and remake the Black home; and 3. How do we preserve the Black home?
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Thank you to everyone who submitted an RFP! We look forward to reviewing them. Please stay tuned for updates in the next few weeks. #bidconference2023 #BiD2023 #blackhome2023 #GSDAASU @GSDAASU @HarvardGSD
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Reminder! The deadline to submit workshop proposals for Black in Design 2023 closes tomorrow, Friday, July 28. We are eager to read your proposals! Link in bio! #bidconference2023 #BiD2023 #blackhome2023 #GSDAASU @GSDAASU @HarvardGSD
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The Black in Design 2023 Conference Committee would like to sincerely thank the Graham Foundation (@GrahamFound) for our recent award, the 2023 Grants to Organizations, and the GSD faculty and staff that made our application possible. Thank you for joining us on this journey!
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The deadline to submit workshop proposals for Black in Design 2023 has been extended to next Friday, July 28. Navigate to our link tree to learn more, and feel free to reach out by email ([email protected]) if you have any questions. Thank you, and best of luck!
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The Black in Design 2023 Committee has opened up a Request For Proposals form for workshops! Click the link in bio to learn more about the workshops themes and RFP submission process. RFPs due July 21, 2023! #bidconference2023 #BiD2023 #blackhome2023 #GSDAASU @harvardgsd
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Happy BLACK History Month, y’all! 🤛🏾 This month, check out some Black excellence on our Black In Design Conference website: blackmatter.tv! #blackprofessionals #BlackHistory #blackcreatives #aasutoshrana
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Have you checked out the replay on YouTube yet? ▶️ The 2021 Black in Design conference brought together designers from distinct professional, academic, & experiential backgrounds to explore the possibilities for designing connections across the African diaspora #blackcreatives
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Highlights from the 2021 Black in Design conference: Black Matter, are now available on the Harvard GSD YouTube page! 🙌🏾 Click here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… to access the videos and relive the conference! 🖤
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“Black people are often forced to wait. Waiting is a temporary non-arriving arrival. A transitory state of not yet that is characterized by ambiguity and inversion.” @matsipa_mpho 💥 Who else felt this quote from our keynote speaker: Dr. Mpho Matsipa? 🔥 #blackcreatives #aasu
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Online on the Black Matter Gallery A Taxonomy of Flight, 2021, film. Thandi Loewenson Experience this work, others, and audio responses on blackmatter.tv #architecturephotography #blackcreatives #Harvard #designcommunity #visualart
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Mobilising the ‘weird’ and the ‘tender’, she engages in projects which provoke questioning of the status-quo, whilst working with communities, policy makers, artists and architects towards acting on those provocations.
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Thandi Loewenson is an architectural designer/researcher who operates through design, fiction and performance to interrogate our perceived and lived realms and to speculate on the possible worlds in our midst.
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Online on the Black Matter Gallery: blackmatter.tv “What is the Architecture of Reparations,” “What does it mean to imagine Black Reconstruction today,” “What is the Architecture of Black futures,” 2020, films. Black Reconstruction Collective #harvardgsd #blackart
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The BRC is committed to multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary work dedicated to dismantling systemic white supremacy and hegemonic whiteness within art, design, and academia.
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