VISUAL THOUGHT ESSAYS

ANTI-CARCERAL CORNER ADAPRTIVE REMIXED USE

The design prototyping outputs of this thesis are inexed in ‘thought essays’ which ideate potential responses to the wicked problems and life works of reversing spatially rooted disinvestment and criminalization inflicted on communities of color. They seek to intervene in sites determined by Lyrical Exercise, using hip-hop sampling methodology from Don’t Sweat the Technique and responding to the calls of Manifesto Sampling. These design responses do not seek to provide a definitive solution but to provoke radical reconsiderations of the approach of these complex problems intertwined between the built environment, black identity and governance.