Afrofuturism - Architecture and Urban design
We are excited to share these clips from a discussion about Afrofuturism Architecture and Urban design. Host Abhay Wadhwa talked with Renee Kemp-Rotan and Rodney Leon. These clips were taken from the recording of the AWA AGORA Talk Show recorded on Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 (Season 6 Episode 6.)
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00:00 Protecting Tradition
01:56 Intro
02:12 Understanding a Contemporary Sense of Africa
03:10 Cultural Cohesion
05:21 Developing a School of Thought
07:12 Post Traumatic Slave Syndrom
08:46 Who is Going to Tell the Story?
10:48 Controlling the Narrative
13:48 End Credits
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Rodney Leon Architects website: www.rodneyleon.com
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GUEST BIO:
Renee Kemp-Rotan, URBAN DESIGN ACTIVIST! CEO STUDIOROTAN/MASTER PLANNING URBAN DESIGN/ PROFESSIONAL COMPETITON ADVISOR THE AFRICATOWN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN IDEA COMPETITION; NOMINATOR AFRCIATOWN: THE 2022 WORLD MONUMENT FUND WATCH Co-Founder, Executive Director Alabama HBCU Consortium, American Institute of Architects / AIA/FOR FOUNDATION ARCHITECTURE (FULL)SCHOLARSHIP; 1st African American woman to graduate Syracuse University, B. Architecture/cum laude; attended Architectural Association, London, RIBA II; graduated Columbia University, MS Urban/Regional Planning; Member: American Institute of Architects; studied under British Royal Cultural Geographer, Paul Oliver; served on AIAs National Diversity+ Inclusion Council-Chair, Governance; National Organization of Minority Architects. RKR served as Director of AIA’s Design, Education, Practice Division and the National Endowment for the Arts’ Design Demonstration and National Design Competition Programs. Kemp-Rotan lectures on culture/design/social impact issues at such august institutions as: The National Museum of African American History Culture, Sorbonne, Cairo University, MIT, Harvard, Cooper Hewitt, Howard, FAMU, New School of Social Research: Parsons School of Design, Georgia Tech, Auburn, Tuskegee, etc.; Contributing Editor, Encyclopedia World Vernacular Architecture, Cambridge. She has served ten mayors as urban policy/designer advisor: DC, NYC, and Atlanta including master planning 8 communities for the 1996 Olympics and went on to serve as Director of Economic Development and Chief of Urban Design and Development of Atlanta, where works included master planning for the Atlanta Aquarium, Olympic Park and construction liaison to the construction of Philips Arena. She now resides in Birmingham, where she ( for 5 consecutive Mayors) DIRECTED planning for $200M Capital Projects; founded the City’s Grants Division; masterplanned The Railroad Reservation Park, The Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail, Crossplex Masterplan, SPARK@Sloss Arts Tech Hub for Millennials and the Underserved with Creative Director of Cirque du Soliel as Partner (recipient of major NEA Grant/Our Town). Her works as Urban Designer/Master Planner are included in The African American National Biography, editor Dr. Henry Louis Gates; Harvard University, WEB DuBose Center and Oxford University, African American Research Center. Kemp-Rotan, as Professional Competition Advisor developed The Africatown International Design Idea Competition, Mobile Alabama. Architecture League of NY: Africatown Gaps to Development, Lead Editor, 220 pages; Alabama Historical Commission Research Grant, Author; “The Cudjo Lewis Hose Initiative; Construction Drawings” 110 pages. produced from the words and photos of Zora Neal Hurstons 1927 interviews with Cudjo Lewis in book Barracoon. LOG Magazine #44 : “ Injustice Poetic: Monument, Museum, and Metaphor.pgs 111-122. World Monuments Fund Watch: Africatown-Official Community Spokesperson for 2022 -2024.
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