Do u dig

I learned to see freedom as always and intimately linked to the issue of transforming space. I have chosen to write about this concern with space in order both to acknowledge the oppositional modes of psychic decolonization that marginalized, exploited, and oppressed black folks envisioned and to document a cultural genealogy of resistance.¹

In this expansive and more inclusive understanding of architecture, the vernacular is as relevant as any other form of architectural practice…Subversive historiography connects oppositional practices from the past with forms of resistance in the present, thus creating spaces of possibility where the future can be imagined differently—imagined in such a way that we can witness ourselves dreaming, moving forward and beyond the limits and confines of fixed locations.²

1. 1. bell hooks, “Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice,” in Art on My Mind: visual politics (New York: New Press, 1995), 147.
   2. Ibid, 151.