Culture of Place

Culture of Place is a public conversation on how architecture can support community organizations that give people places to gather and a voice in their neighborhoods' futures. It is presented by the Van Alen Institute, an architecture and design nonprofit based in Gowanus, Brooklyn, through its Van Alen Vanguard network of emerging design leaders. Architect Farida Abu-Bakare joins designer, artist, and educator Curry J. Hackett and architect Tura Cousins Wilson of the Studio of Contemporary Architecture (SOCA) to explore how design can sustain local cultural life while responding to changing community needs. Drawing on their practices and perspectives on Black cultural memory, they will examine what architects can learn from people already doing the work of building community.