MoMA
Reconstructions
Olalekan Jeyifous. Plant Seeds Grow Blessings. 2020
Sekou Cooke. We Outchea. 2020
Felecia Davis. Drawing 2. 2020
“En aquest moment, tots nosaltres hauríem de pensar en mons radicalment diferents.”
“At this moment in time, all of us should be thinking of radically different worlds.”
Emanuel Admassu
Avui vull dedicar el BLOG a aquesta exposició del MoMA on es mira d’una altra manera l’arquitectura. Tot i que en un primer moment em va semblar un projecte discriminatiu després m’ha fet pensar en el fet de ser conscients d’on venim i qui som per poder afrontar, dissenyar o pensar mons diferents.
A vegades preguntes senzilles ens fan pensar en grans canvis!
Per als negres dels Estats Units i de tot el món, l'arquitectura no es va fer per a secundar-los. En molts casos, l'arquitectura es va dissenyar per a perjudicar-los. A través de la supremacia blanca, els treballs forçats, l'empresonament i les innombrables lleis discriminatòries, el racisme contra els negres va ser literalment dissenyat en l'entorn construït. I aquestes pràctiques determinen no sols on poden viure, sinó com poden viure.
Aquestes idees són el punt de partida de l'exposició que s'inaugura aquesta setmana al MoMA, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, així com d'un nou curs en línia, Reimagining Blackness and Architecture.
Van demanar als participants en Reconstructions, que formen col·lectivament el Black Reconstruction Collective, que responguessin a dues preguntes: Què és l'arquitectura? I què significa ser arquitecte? Les seves respostes reflecteixen alguns dels temes importants explorats tant en l'exposició com en el curs, i animen a pensar més profundament en la comprensió no sols del que és l'arquitectura, sinó del que pot ser.
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Today I want to talk about this exhibition at MoMA where architecture is looked at in a different way. Although at first it seemed to me a discriminating project, it has made me think about the fact of being aware of where we come from and who we are in order to be able to face, design or think about different worlds.
Sometimes simple questions make us think about big changes!
For Black people in America and across the world, architecture was not made to support them. In many instances, architecture was designed to harm them. Through white supremacy, forced labor, imprisonment, and countless discriminatory laws, anti-Black racism was literally designed into the built environment. And these practices determine not only where they can live, but how they can live.
These ideas are a point of departure for the exhibition opening this week at MoMA, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, as well as a new online course, Reimagining Blackness and Architecture.
They asked the participants in Reconstructions, who collectively form the Black Reconstruction Collective, to respond to two questions: What is architecture? And what does it mean to be an architect? Their answers reflect some of the important themes explored in both the exhibition and the course, encouraging us to think more deeply about our understanding of not only what architecture is, but what it can be.