CIVIQ: Hip-Hop Architecture with Sekou Cooke

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Join us for the next edition of CIVIQ, A Speaker Series Honoring Rob Taylor, hosted by the Chattanooga Design Studio.When: Thursday, May 19th, 5:30 - 7:00 pm (doors at 5 pm)***Where: Stove Works, 1250 East 13th St, Chattanooga TN 37408Speaker: Sekou Cooke - Principal, sekou cooke STUDIO and Director of MS of Urban Design, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NCSekou Cooke is an architect, urban designer, researcher, and curator. Cooke is a leading advocate for the study and practice of Hip-Hop Architecture, which addresses the broad impacts of the racist history of architecture and urban planning, opening a pathway for practice, education, and scholarship that embraces architecture as a tool for shaping, reflecting, and understanding culture. He will be discussing his monograph “Hip-Hop Architecture,” ideas of Hip-Hop Architecture, and recent projects influenced by his research practice. Born in Jamaica and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sekou is also the Director of the Master of Urban Design program at UNC Charlotte, the 2021/2022 Nasir Jones HipHop Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African &amp; African American Research at Harvard University, and a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective. ***Light refreshments will be provided. Doors and networking at 5 pm; lecture begins promptly at 5:30 pm.

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