(First presented in 2019 at Princeton University School of Architecture’s Black Imagination Matters (BIM) Incubator, a convening of experimental architecture, art, and technology workshops and poetic symposia organized by Assistant Professor V. Mitch McEwen.)
Sharifa’s ongoing study of the Black Peoples’ Topographical Research Center animates the dispersed and suppressed histories of the Chicago-founded clandestine think tank , which operated in cities across the U.S. from the late 1960s through early 1980s as popular education sites deploying radical community-based cartography as a tool for freedom dreaming, counter-mapping and response to state-sponsored surveillance.
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