WHEN:
Thursday, March 8th, 2018
3:00-6:00 PM
WHERE:
Room 516, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
This lecture will take place in the Framework of the course DES-3369: Spaces of Solidarity. The course aims at examining community-driven spaces and spatial processes that pool and share resources to build social cohesion in times of crisis or absence of government, at a variety of scales, places, and contexts. It also attempts to explore environments of community formation and open up a dialogue on the agency of design in enacting and facilitating actions of solidarity.
This lecture is hosted by MDes Risk & Resilience and course DES-3369: Spaces of Solidarity.
Bryce Detroit
Music Producer, Curator, and Activist
Bryce Detroit is the Afrofuturist storyteller, curator, and pioneer of Entertainment Justice. As a culture creator, he is a national award-winning music producer and curator. Through his work, he demonstrates the power of using entertainment arts and community cultural legacies, to design cultural infrastructure for preserving, producing, and promoting new Afrikan-Indigenous narratives, cultural literacies, and cooperative music economies. As an activist, Bryce is spearheading multiple cultural and community revitalization projects in the North End. He’s also co-founder and the Music and Cultural Curator of Oakland North End (O.N.E) Mile Project. Bryce’s philosophy is rooted in racial justice, and the desire to honor the legacy of native artists and institutions and create new opportunities for the native residents of his historic yet undervalued community.
