winner: 2020 studio prize

Pine Street African Burial Ground

Kingston, New York (2019 - ongoing) academic design studio w/ CCNY film documentary (guests collab with Sarah Carlson) youth education enclosure (ongoing project) right above : CCNY student project, “A Sovereign Archive”, Nicolas Losi (MArch), Spring 2020 design studio (Haferd, professor) right below : youth programming enclosure (Haferd, ongoing project) opposite : CCNY students at the site. following : workshop with Harambee youth in Kingston (Spring 2020) right above : CCNY student project, “A Sovereign Archive”, Nicolas Losi Spring 2020 design studio (Haferd, professor) right below CCNY studio project, "How It Came About", Kari Kleinman (Haferd, professor)

The collaboration with Harambee of Kingston, the Kingston Land Trust, and other local organizations is a multi-faceted project growing out of research in both the Huson Valley and at other Black and indigenous Burial Ground Sites connected to the Dutch Reform Church (Harlem African Burial Ground), and how these erased histories both challenge and provoke new forms of land ownership, design, and pedagogy.

The advanced design studio, conducted in Spring 2020 titled “Towards an Archaeology of the Future” was done in parallel and in conjunction with the Kingston YMCA high school youth of color who were tasked with the schematic design of the site.

The studio initiated a series of events and an ongoing collaborations with the stakeholders of the site, who are now in the process of renovating the existing house and preparing for youth programming. The next phase of collaboration includes a seasonal enclosure concept as well as work on a publication and collaboration with filmmaker Sarah Carlson on a documentary of the youth design project and land transfer process.

The collaboration with Harambee of Kingston, the Kingston Land Trust, and other local organizations is a multi-faceted project growing out of research in both the Hudson Valley and at other Black and indigenous Burial Ground Sites connected to the Dutch Reform Church.

Student work proposed speculative urban futures for the site.