The CCA is launching a collaborative, multidisciplinary research project that explores the intersectional dimensions of digital design funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation?s Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities Initiative.
Georg Lippsmeier, photographer. Image from slide, National Printing Press, Nouakchott, Mauritania, ca. 1971. Georg Lippsmeier Collection, CCA. ARCH280728. Gift of African Architecture Matters Credit(s) © Estate of George Lippsmeier
The Digital Now project will focus on how digital design intersects with the simultaneous relations between race, class, gender, ability, and sexuality. The project will bring together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, curators, practitioners, and technologists to question the ways in which digital architectural production and social identity formation are intertwined. ?Intersectionality entails a way of seeing and navigating a world with differential forms of justice. Pioneered by intellectuals and activists in the 1970s, from Kimberlé Crenshaw to the Combahee River Collective, it is rooted in gendered and racialized experiences of capitalism,? says the CCA.
The CCA invites proposals that can collectively assemble an intersectional discourse on digital design in our contemporary moment that attends to racialized, classed, and other justice-driven dimensions.
This project will build on the CCA?s commitment to a conception of architecture that exceeds a singular paradigm and that rather places emphasis on a broa...