Arts & Culture
destiny Kirumira reconstructing through art
Destiny Kirumira is the inaugural recipient of The Indigenous and Black Engineering and Technology Momentum Fellowship. Her artistic work intersects with her study of architecture as she dismantles and relearns whitecentered teachings around architecture; a process of reshaping the interplay of her Blackness with architecture. Her upbringing crosses continents, with German, Ugandan and Canadian influences, and while her affinity for art seems to thread throughout her childhood, she traces her introduction to architecture to a vivid memory of her mother showing her the drawings of a church. “ I was so excited by the power I saw in design that I decided then and there that I would aspire to become an architect”.
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A 2019 study revealed that Black women make up only 0.3% of Architects. Destiny shares her thoughts on working in an underrepresented field in the midst of heightened awareness around diversity and inclusion:
