my people are here! : Inspiring Black Empowerment and Connection in Vancouver Through Black Futurist Interventions
department or school: Applied Science, Faculty of
department or school: Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Robinson, Sarah
issued: 2024-05-03T15:00:36Z
issued: 2024-05-01
description: My people are here! celebrates Black culture in Vancouver. Black communities have migrated from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States into Vancouver neighborhoods, such as Hogan's Alley, for the last couple of centuries. While other provinces in Eastern Canada continue to maintain visible epicenters and enclaves, Vancouver struggles to exhibit similar strengths, especially in regard to Black folks. Unfortunately, the city has built a reputation that has encouraged a particular curiosity in new residents and tourists: “Where are the black people?" They are isolated, suffer from loneliness, and are acutely aware of the communal disparity within the major city centers. This project is a spatial project about people. It is a teaser, a conversation starter about how we, as a collective, can foster a reevaluated sense of belonging, by using even the most abstract or mundane architectural typologies. In this case, the front porch is adopted as a tool for fore-fronting Black culture, landscapes, and togetherness. The project employs the past and present, histories, ideologies and events of Black culture to engage with Afrofuturism as a dynamic way to spearhead the reinventing of the porch and its socio-cultural connection to Black communities. The porch, although largely an American invention, has acted as an unifier for Black communities. Porches are vessels for cookouts, familial and friendly bonding, for artistic and activist expression, and for garnering support among others. Ultimately, these day to day activities hold enough fluidity to be activated and amplified to the larger collective, fostering the belonging, companionship, connection, freedom of thought, speech and movement, and security and support that many within the Black community yearn for. These phenomenons have been conceptualized as porchness.
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note: my people are here!Inspiring Black Empowerment and Connection in Vancouver Through Black Futurist InterventionsSarah RobinsonInspiring Black Empowerment and Connection in Vancouver Through Black Futurist InterventionsBA in History and Theory of Architecture, Carleton University, April 2021Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture’ in The Faculty of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, ArchitectureProgram.Chair: Rana AbughannamCommittee:Lys Divine NdemeyeCurry HackettAïden Mezidor© May 2024Sarah Robinsonmy people are here!fig.1ii iiiTo my grandparents, Thelma and Roy.iv vmy people are here! ABSTRACT FRONT MATTER My people are here! celebrates Black culture in Vancouver. Black communities have migrated from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States into Vancouver neighborhoods, such as Hogan's Alley, for the last couple of centuries. While other provinces in Eastern Canada continue to maintain visible epicenters and enclaves, Vancouver struggles to exhibit similar strengths, especially in regard to Black folks. Unfortunately, the city has built a reputation that has encouraged a particular curiosity in new residents and tourists: “Where are the black people?" They are isolated, suffer from loneliness, and are acutely aware of the communal disparity within the major city centers. This project is a spatial project about people. It is a teaser, a conversation starter about how we, as a collective, can foster a reevaluated sense of belonging, by using even the most abstract or mundane architectural typologies. In this case, the front porch is adopted as a tool for fore-fronting Black culture, landscapes, and togetherness. The project employs the past and present, histories, ideologies and events of Black culture to engage with Afrofuturism as a dynamic way to spearhead the reinventing of the porch and its socio-cultural connection to Black communities. The porch, although largely an Ame…
has type: Graduating Project
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0442283
language: eng
peer review status: Unreviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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scholar level: Graduate
is part of: University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88186