Podcast appearances and mentions of Mabel O Wilson

Today's Summer School episode from the IBI Archive is episode 2 with architect, designer, and scholar, Dr. Mabel O. Wilson. Doing double duty as a Professor of Architecture and as Associate Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies, both at Columbia University, Dr. Wilson is not your traditional designer of buildings. Her trans-disciplinary practice extends well beyond the built environment into the worlds of curation, performance, art, and cultural history.We discuss how Mabel's problems fitting in as a young architect led to designing her own path to success (5:40), her advice for young architectural students (9:00), what Beyonce stole from her (21:30), the ways in which design and structures have been used to create the concepts of both blackness and whiteness (26:26), the radical change needed for an equitable America (32:27), the invisibility of Black women (35:00) and how mass incarceration not only tied a generation of Black men to a failing capitalist state, but left a generation of Black women without partners (49:40).Links we mention in the episode:Mabel's Instagram: @studio_andHer new book: Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present Thank you for tuning in! Please don't forget to rate, comment, subscribe and SHARE with a friend. Visit us on IBI Digital at blackimagination.com Watch other episodes on YouTube at The Institute of Black Imagination.Connect with us on Instagram at @blackimagination

Can junk be transformed into art? Discover the life and work of John Outterbridge, an artist who combined discarded objects and found materials into complex works of art. Hear from architect Mabel O. Wilson about her uncle's salvaging practice and the ways it brought him closer to his family, community, and visions for a better future.

Intersections: Where Diversity, Equity and Design Meet is a Fall 2022 Series at The National Building Museum. It brings together leading Black voices in design, art, and architecture for a series of dynamic discussions about culture, equity and representation through the lens of design. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Mabel O. Wilson about researching anti-black spaces, the mental toll it can bring and the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. RECAP: THE NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM'S 'INTERSECTIONS' SERIES BRINGS TOGETHER MABEL O. WILSON, MALO A. HUTSON AND GLENN LARUE SMITH IN CONVERSATION Dr. Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor in Architecture and a professor in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. She also serves as the director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies and co-directs Global Africa Lab. With her practice Studio&, she is a collaborator in the architectural team that recently completed the Memorial to Enslaved African American Laborers at the University of Virginia. With Irene Cheng and Charles Davis, she co-edited Race and Modern Architecture: From the Enlightenment to Today (2020). For the Museum of Modern Art, she was co-curator of the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America (2021). She's a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), a collective that advocates for fair labor practices on building sites worldwide. Launching September 16th and running through December 14th, Intersections engages nationally recognized Black architects, designers and artists in conversations focused on social justice in the built environment. Through interactive lectures and hands-on workshops, this series is designed to provoke new thinking, spark conversation, enlighten and empower. Nov 29 LARGE FIRM ROUND TABLE...AT THE INTERSECTION OF EQUITY, ADVOCACY AND INDUSTRY Dec 14 CORY HENRY...AT THE INTERSECTION OF DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY

Introducing Power & Public Space, a new podcast from Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation. This episode features a conversation with professor Mabel O. Wilson on the Memorial to Enslaved Labourers at the University of Virginia. Listen to the full series on ITunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Scaffold returns with new episodes later this month. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In 2020 The Memorial to Enslaved Labourers opened at the University of Virginia, designed as a collaboration between Höweler+Yoon Architecture, Mabel O. Wilson, landscape architects Gregg Bleam and Frank Dukes, and the artist Eto Otitigbe. As Wilson has explained, “civic buildings and monuments in the U.S. are often emblematic of a disavowal of the founding precepts of liberty, equality and justice, where they become sites to imagine and enact American whiteness.” In this episode Wilson discusses how the memorial was conceived and designed to assert its position within the campus's Eurocentric architectural context, whilst addressing the university's history of racism and recovering lost narratives of enslaved people in the process. Power & Public Space is a co-production of Drawing Matter & the Architecture Foundation See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In episode two host, Michele Washington interviews Mabel Wilson, currently the Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, a Professor in African American and African Diasporic Studies, the Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies and co-director of the Global Africa Lab at Columbia University.  Wilson talks about her immense body of research, which ranges from academia, writing, race, architecture, and curatorial projects. One of her most recent exhibitions was held at MoMA, “Reconstructions Architecture and Blackness in America.” Wilson also discusses her practice Studio &, being a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture, plus several books that she's penned. Check out this online free course: MoMA at Coursera: Reimaging Blackness and ArchitectureBooks: - Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture, (2016) - Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums, (University of California Press 2012 ). - Race and Modern Architecture,co-editor, (University of Pittsburgh Press 2020). You can find Mabel O. Wilson: Follow her on Instagram: @Studio_and Columbia University GSAPPFind Curious Story Lab OnlineWebsite: https://curiousstorylab.com/Twitter: @curiousstorylabInstagram: @curiousstorylabEmail me: curiousstory21@gmail.comWhile you're at check out this new Book, The Black Experience in Design, edited by Anne Berry, Kareem Collie, Penina Acayo Laker, Leslie Noel, Kareem Collie, Jennifer Rittner, and Kelly Walters. Published by Allsworth Press, the book can be found starting February 1, 2022 at Target, and is available in paperback or Kindle on Amazon.Credits:Creator & Host: Michele Y. WashingtonProducer: Alicia Ajayi @aliciaoajayiEditor: Angelina BrunoSound Engineer + Music: Joanna SamuelsFollow us on Spotify,  Apple Podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast

Sean Anderson is an Associate Professor and Director of the B.Arch. Program at Cornell. He previously was the Associate Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA where he most recently co-organized Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America with Mabel O. Wilson. In this wide-ranging conversation, Jarrett and Sean talk about his interest in both history and practice, writing vs. curating, and the impact of MoMA's Reconstructions show. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/205-sean-anderson. — If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon and get bonus content, transcripts, and our monthly newsletter! www.patreon.com/surfacepodcast

The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, women, and children in his lifetime. Architects Mabel O. Wilson and Louis Nelson discuss Jefferson's conflicting ideals. Also: Erik Neil takes us through a Chrysler Museum exhibit that explored the inherent conflict between Jefferson's pursuit of liberty and democracy and his use of enslaved laborers to construct his monuments. Later in the show: Phillip Herrington says the white-columned plantation house is one of the most enduring and divisive icons of American architecture. Plus: The history of segregation is not just in our architecture, but in other public arts. John Ott is studying how artists in the early 20th century represented integration in their works, particularly in public murals and sculptures.

Dianne Harris offers a rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture in her book LITTLE WHITE HOUSES, which examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary single-family house with middle-class whites to the exclusion of others. This book adds a new dimension to our understanding of race in America and the inequalities that persist in the housing market in the United States. Harris is an architectural historian and dean of the University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences. She is joined in conversation by Mabel O. Wilson, an architect, designer, cultural historian, and curator who teaches at Columbia University. This conversation was recorded in July 2021.

Is Day's End (2014–21) an anti-monument for our time? In this episode, we return to the sculpture itself: how it makes meaning, how it fits into the surrounding environment, and what public art tells us about freedom and power. Hosted by Carrie Mae Weems. Episode guests (in order of appearance): Glenn Ligon, Kellie Jones, Tom Finkelpearl, Mabel O. Wilson, Adam Weinberg, Ken Lum, An-My Lê, Guy Nordenson, Catherine Seavitt, Elegance Bratton, Stefanie Rivera, Curtis Zunigha. whitney.org/podcast

In this special episode, hosts Samuel Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson convene a roundtable with Prof. Wafaa El-Sadr, MD of Columbia University, Prof. Gregg Gonsalves of Yale University, and Dr. Bisola Ojikutu of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital to discuss how structural inequities and racism impact the lived (and dying) experiences during this ongoing pandemic.

Mabel O. Wilson, the Nancy and George E. Rupp professor of architecture, planning and preservation at Columbia University, and associate curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA, Sean Anderson, join us to discuss organizing a new show at MoMA titled, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, which runs through May 31, 2021.

Sean Anderson is Associate Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, he has practiced as an architect and taught in Afghanistan, Australia, India, Italy, Morocco, Sri Lanka and the U.A.E. He has written books on South Asian ritual sculpture as well as on modern architecture. As of February 2021, his latest exhibition at the MOMA titled Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America will be the first exhibition to highlight the work of African American and African diasporic architects, co-organized with Mabel O Wilson.  Gita is the founder of her namesake public relations firm, GITAPR. Known for her understanding of the evolving media landscape and digital platform, she has masterfully executed international programs in the fields of luxury, business, design, fashion, hospitality, travel, real estate and philanthropy. Here are a few things we discuss with them -  Can architecture be considered art, and consequently, can an architect be viewed as an artist?  Where do installations and structures with distinct sculptural significances, like the Hudson Yards Vessel fall on the spectrum?  Does PR play a role in shaping the narrative around certain projects? The Design Pataki Podcast is brought to you by Design Pataki, one of India's foremost digital magazines on luxury design. For our top editorial stories on art, architecture and interiors, head to www.designpataki.com.  To contact Design Pataki, please email info@designpataki.com.  The Design Pataki Podcast is produced in collaboration with Studio41. 

Episode recorded Nov, 2020. In this episode, I talk to Fernando Luiz Lara, who works on theorizing spaces of the Americas with emphasis on the dissemination of architecture and planning ideas beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries. In his several articles, Prof. Lara has discussed the modern and the contemporary architecture of our continent, its meaning, context, and social-economic insertion. In this episode, we talk about our education as Latin American architects in the cannon, how we decolonized it and got into decolonization perspectives for our work. We talked about the need for a new and different set of values on which to analyze architectural Latin American architecture, and not by comparing them to American or European standards. We commented on how teaching decoloniality is still in the margins of academia. We had an interesting conversation on Fernando's article American Mirror: the Occupation of the “New World” and the Rise of Architecture as We Know it. And we talked about the future of education, podcasts, youtube channels, electronic media, etc. Books mentioned in the conversation. Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology and Utopia, with Luis Carranza. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Architecture and Forced Exploitation: The Gulf of Mexico, 1920-1970 / Arquitectura y Explotacion Forzada: El Golfo de Mexico, 1920-1970, with Reina Loredo Cansino. Apuntes sobre Decolonializacion, Arquitectura y Ciudad en las Americas. with Reina Loredo Cansino. - Link to the presentation of the book video. American Mirror: the Occupation of the “New World” and the Rise of Architecture as We Know it. Recommendations. Designs for the Pluriverse. Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. By Arturo Escobar Ideas to Postpone the End of the World. by Ailton Krenak The Moor's account. by Laila Lalami Sera mañana. by Federico Guzmán Rubio A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore. Race and Modern Architecture. A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present. Edited By Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, Mabel O. Wilson

Today's Patreon-fueled shout-out is for the Plant Northern Piedmont Natives Campaign, an initiative that wants you to grow native plants in yards, farms, public spaces and gardens in the northern Piedmont. Native plants provide habitat, food sources for wildlife, ecosystem resiliency in the face of climate change, and clean water.  Start at the Plant Northern Piedmont Natives Facebook page and tell them Lonnie Murray sent you! In today’s newsletter:Charlottesville seeks cooperation to keep gatherings in city parks below 25 peopleVirginia will soon move into a new phase of its rent and mortgage relief programThe Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia wins another award*The seven-day average for positive PCR tests in Virginia has climbed to 9.5 percent, up from 8.8 percent yesterday, and 7.3 percent a week ago. There are another 2,877 cases reported today. The Blue Ridge Health District posted another 80 cases, with 40 cases from Albemarle, 18 cases from Charlottesville, six from Fluvanna, five from Greene, five from Louisa and six from Nelson. There have been no new COVID-19 fatalities reported in the health district since November 26. The statewide fatality count is 4,160 today. Source: Virginia Department of Health* The city of Charlottesville will begin to more closely monitor gatherings at city parks, including the recently opened skate facility in McIntire Park. That’s according to a press release sent out this morning. “Last weekend, more than 75 individuals were observed in the Skate Park at one time,” reads the release. “The nature of such activity makes social distancing difficult and many participants were observed without face coverings. Increased supervision and enforcement of the City’s COVID-19 ordinance would lead to City employees being placed at an even greater risk during a critical stage in the pandemic.”Violation of the gathering rules is either a Class 3 or Class 4 misdemeanor and comes with a $500 fine. City Council is expected to vote Monday on an extension and update of the local declaration of a public health emergency. *A local regional government agency will soon wind down its administration of a statewide rental and mortgage relief program. Christine Jacobs is the Housing Coordinator for the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission. She briefed representatives from area localities about the statewide program. “As of last week, $23.9 million in emergency assistance has been deployed in less than 5 months and over 8,800 households across the Commonwealth have received emergency support,” Jacobs said. Jacobs said the TJPDC’s contract with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development will end on December 31. After that, the state agency will contract with one private company that will take applications from landlords seeking relief, and a second will process applications from homeowners and tenants. Jacobs said the TJPDC stopped taking applications on Monday. “Starting December 1, which was Tuesday of this week, all new applications are processed through that state level point of intake,” Jacobs said. She said a final report on how much funding TJPDC has been able to distribute will be available in the middle of the month. “Mid-month also is when they will begin to advertise a public launch of RRMP 2.0,” Jacobs said.  “Right now it is more of a soft launch because the regional agencies are still under contract and are able to process applications.”Locally, the TJPDC has distributed $1.372 million in funding and has another $274,000 request pending with the DHCD. *The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission is prepared to move ahead with regional administration of additional taxes on cigarettes should area localities decide to impose them. Counties can begin to levy such taxes as of July 1, 2021. David Blount is the legislative liaison for the TJPDC. “Counties are starting to look at discussing their budgets for fiscal year 22 which begins next July,” Blount said. “They are looking at the cigarette tax as an option for implementing in that next budget.”The TJPDC hosted an information session this week on the tax and how it may be collected. There is a Northern Virginia Cigarette Tax Board that covers 19 localities, and that arrangement is an option for this region. Blount also briefed the Commission on the upcoming General Assembly session, which is scheduled to convene on January 13.“There is some question at this point as to if the session is going to be its typical 46 days which is what the short sessions are as opposed to the long session of 60 days, or if its only going to be 30 days,” Blount said.The Virginia Constitution restricts sessions in odd number years to 30 days unless a two-thirds vote in both the House of Delegates and the Senate agree to extend it. (Article IV)“Here a couple of weeks ago the GOP Republican leadership indicated they would not be willing to go along with extending the session this year,” Blount said. “That remains to be seen where we land. We’ll get to Richmond on January 13.”Blount said the General Assembly met for two months in special session this fall, and will meet again for a redistricting special session in the spring. The House of Delegates will meet remotely, and the Senate will meet on site. “We do expect fewer bills this year because of some limitations that the House and Senate have put on themselves,” Blount said. *In other TJPDC related news, executive director Chip Boyles said the agency is seeking a grant from the Virginia Department of Transportation to pay for a transportation study of U.S. 29 between Airport Road in Albemarle County and Ruckersville in Greene County.“There’s a lot of growth happening in both Albemarle and Greene in that section,” Boyles said. In recent years, U.S. 29 in the Hollymead area has been widened to six lanes. VDOT will begin construction of a reconfiguration of the junction of U.S. 29 and U.S. 33 next winter. But what about the miles in between? “We think it’s really, really important for this corridor of statewide significance to begin to be looked at to fill that gap,” Boyles said. At the end of the meeting, Commissioners from throughout the region had the ability to check in. Jesse Rutherford of the Nelson Board of Supervisors said his county is working with the Central Virginia Electric Cooperative on an ambitious goal. “We’re about to cut a deal with the co-op, Albemarle are you listening? Please, I hope you are, that one hundred percent of the residents of Nelson County will have access to fiber internet by 2024,” Rutherford said. At the conclusion of the meeting. TJPDC Chair Dale Martin had these words.“To all the Commissioners present, it’s been a very tough year, it’s been a tough year for everyone involved,” Martin said. “I know that you’ve been struggling personally, struggling with your citizens and localities, trying to do what’s best for your community, and also struggling to attend these meetings. This is a very unusual time in our history and I think that each of you are doing a tremendous job as well.” The TJPDC will next meet on February 4, 2021. *The University of Virginia Memorial to Enslaved Laborers has been awarded the honor of Project of the Year by the Architect’s Newspaper. The memorial was completed earlier this year and was designed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture in collaboration with Mabel O. Wilson and Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect. According to an article on UVA Today, the diameter of the memorial is the same as the Rotunda, and contains the names of those people who are known to have been enslaved as well as placeholders for those whose identities and stories are waiting to be told. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to our first episode of Change Lab Presents Throughout this season, on alternating weeks, we’ll feature a handpicked episode from podcasts by, for or about the Black community. This week we’re excited to share an episode from The Institute of Black Imagination. Hosted by artist, writer, and brand consultant Dario Calmese, the show features conversations from The Pool of Black Genius: a collection of iconoclasts at the leading edge of cultural thought and innovation. Today’s episode features architect, designer and scholar, Dr. Mabel O. Wilson, who discusses her trans-disciplinary practice touching upon the worlds of curation, performance, art and cultural history. Please enjoy this Change Lab Presents episode of the Institute of Black Imagination Links mentioned in the episode: Mabel's Instagram: @studio_and Her new book: Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present 

To many of us cities are places of freedom and opportunity imbued with values and qualities we respect. Yet every city has its invisible past and its forgotten people. This episode explores the legacy of colonialism in the contemporary city, speaking with Mabel O. Wilson in New York, Finn Pedersen in Perth and Sarah Lynn Rees in Melbourne. Presented by Andrew Mackenzie and Maitiú Ward from Uro Publications.

In this episode, I talk to Jose Brunner an Adjunct Professor for the Critical Ethnic Studies Program at the CCA, about his work on speculation, and practice in architecture. We talked about his research on the Border Phenomena that explores the anthropology of frontiers, and the agency of art and design at the boundary between nations. We discussed about what it is being a transborder citizen, and how this has informed his career and his teaching activities. We discussed how being from and at the border has a similar and familiar quality to queer identities, and Joey shared his perspective of having been grown in a binational and bicultural household. We talked about, how the border has changed through time and space, and how, for example experiencing 9/11 made a huge impact in border culture. We also talked about our interests in the border environment and how we study it and analyze it from diverse but similar perspectives. We also discussed about pedagogy, about the stories and histories that we teach, and encourage our students to tell. Recommendations. Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum Security Detention, Ed. by Seth Michelson. Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present. Ed. by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis, Mabel O. Wilson. The 13th - Netlfix Just Mercy - Prime Video Midnight Gospel - Netflix

In the final episode of this series, our hosts Samuel Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson speak with Prof. Alondra Nelson, president of the Social Science Research Council. Prof. Nelson shares her observations on the changes, adaptations, and recurring issues that have unfolded during the novel coronavirus pandemic through a sociological lens. Please join us here for future episodes on Black Lives. 

In our eighth episode, hosts Samuel Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson speak with Prof. Steven Thrasher of Northwestern University. Prof. Thrasher discusses his work on social justice and the LGBTQ community, including the ways that “racism, homophobia, policing, medicine, incarceration, culture, and health intersect.” Thrasher also discusses the ways the HIV epidemic has shaped our current coronavirus response, as well as his upcoming project.

In this episode, Samuel Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson are in conversation with Jelani Cobb, author and Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism. Prof. Cobb talks about our current circumstances - the coronavirus crisis and the ongoing uprisings stemming from police violence - through a historical and journalistic lens. Included in this discussion are this year’s election and Cobb’s upcoming book project.

Justin Garret Moore, architect and urban designer and Executive Director of the NewYork City Public Design Commission joins Dr. Mabel O. Wilson and Prof. Mario Gooden of the Global Africa Lab to discuss their research and exhibition Im/mobility and the Afro-Imaginary. Their discussion explores the history of racial geography in New York, from redlining to urban renewal, looking at the physical infrastructures of segregation (roadways, expressways, and bridges) as well as the racial demography of COVID-19. New York city has been one of the key locations of both the #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) movement as well as current assorted social justice movements in the wake of the recent police murders of Black Americans coinciding with the global COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the discussion engages concepts of Blackness as a form of #Enclosure and the immobilized Black body, as well as Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the underlife theorized in her unpublished manuscript, Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World. _____________________________________________________________ The #AfricanMobilities podcast series was made possible by Goethe-Institut Johannesburg in partnership with the Wits University - School of Architecture and Planning, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Architekturmuseum de Tum and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation #AfricanMobilities #Circulations #Enclosure #GlobalAfricaLab #JustinMoore

In our sixth episode, Samuel Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson are joined by Saeeda Dunston, executive director of Elmcor Youth & Adult Activities, Inc., a non-profit, multi-service organization located in Queens, New York. Ms. Dunston speaks about how the novel coronavirus has impacted those receiving support, how Elmcor is dealing with the increasing need for services, and what organizing looks like in the current era. 

This week, our hosts Samuel Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson speak with Matt Swain, a hospital worker who shares his experience of working during the pandemic. Mr. Swain discusses the changes he witnessed to protocols and procedures at his job, issues with personal protective equipment, and his own concerns over exposure to the virus. Swain also talks about the more personal aspects of functioning during the crisis in New York City.

In this episode, our hosts Samuel Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson talk with Prof. Keesha Middlemass of Howard University. Prof. Middlemass discusses the effects of the novel coronavirus as it travels through jails and prisons in the U.S., and how exposure and infection impact incarcerated populations and those who are re-entering communities. Included in this discussion are the ways in which the carceral system has changed under COVID-19.

Mabel O. Wilson, Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Professor of African American and African Diasporic Studies at Columbia University, discusses the removal of Confederate and other controversial historical monuments, and we take listener calls. 

Mabel O Wilson is a Professor and the Associate Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University within the GSAPP. Bryan Lee is a Design Principal of Colloqate and a national Design Justice Advocate. Akira Drake Rodriguez is a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design and School of Social Policy & Practice. The Midnight Charette is now The Second Studio. SUBSCRIBE  • Apple Podcasts  • YouTube  • Spotify CONNECT  • Website: www.secondstudiopod.com • Instagram • Facebook • Twitter  • Call or text questions to 213-222-6950 SUPPORT Leave a review :) EPISODE CATEGORIES  •  Interviews: Interviews with industry leaders.   •  After Hours (AH): Casual conversations about everyday life.  •  Design Reviews: Reviews of creative projects and buildings.  •  Fellow Designer: Tips for designers.

In the third episode in this series, hosts Samuel Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson speak with Oni Blackstock, M.D., M.H.S., Assistant Commissioner for the New York City Health Department’s Bureau of HIV. Dr. Blackstock discusses the impacts of race on health services, including the disparities and inequities in health outcomes. Dr. Blackstock also talks about the parallels between her work in HIV prevention and treatment and the response to the novel coronavirus.

In this episode, our hosts Samuel Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson are joined by Metropolitan Transportation Authority conductor, union member, and community organizer Tramell Thompson. Mr. Thompson speaks about the impact of the novel coronavirus on New York City transit workers including the dangers, disparities, and loss experienced by some of the City’s most essential workers.

This special episode of Scaffold features a conversation between architect Mabel O. Wilson and Dario Calmese, host of the new podcast Institute of Black imagination. “We could be a very equitable society, it's just the will is not there. We have the resources — I don’t think its a project of inclusion, I think we have to radially change the system. If we have to destroy it and rebuild it, so be it. But I don’t think including us in the current system — it wipes us out, it’s not sustaining for us.” - Mabel O Wilson

In the first episode of “Black Lives: In the Era of COVID-19” Columbia University’s Samuel Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson speak with Prof. Malo Hutson, academic scholar and practitioner in the areas of community development, racial and ethnic inequalities, urban sustainability, and urban policy. Prof. Hutson discusses how the built environment impacts health in Black communities, especially in New York City.

Today’s episode is with architect, designer, and scholar, Dr. Mabel O. Wilson. Doing double-duty as a  Professor of Architecture  and as Associate Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies, both at Columbia University, Dr. Wilson is not your traditional designer of buildings. Her trans-disciplinary practice extends well beyond the built environment in to the worlds of curation, performance, art, and cultural history. In today’s episode we discuss how Mabel’s problems fitting in as a young architect led to designing her own path to success (5:40), her advice for young architectural students (9:00), what Beyonce stole from her (21:30), the ways in which design and structures have been used to create the concepts of both blackness and whiteness (26:26), the radical change needed for an equitable America (32:27), the invisibility of Black women (35:00) and how mass incarceration not only tied a generation of Black men to a failing capitalist state, but left a generation of Black women without partners (49:40). Links we mention in the episode: Mabel's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/studio_and/ (@studio_and) Her new book: https://www.amazon.com/Race-Modern-Architecture-Enlightenment-Environment/dp/082294605X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= (Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present)  Thank you for tuning in! Please don't forget to rate, comment, subscribe and SHARE with a friend (https://www.instagram.com/blackimaginationpodcast/ (@blackimaginationpodcast)). Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/blackimagination/support (anchor.fm/blackimagination/support) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/blackimagination/support (https://anchor.fm/blackimagination/support) Support this podcast

The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, women, and children in his lifetime. Architects Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia University) and Louis Nelson (University of Virginia) discuss Jefferson’s conflicting ideals. Also featured: Erik Neil (Chrysler Museum of Art) takes us through the new Chrysler exhibit that explores the inherent conflict between Jefferson’s pursuit of liberty and democracy and his use of enslaved laborers to construct his monuments. Later in the show: Phillip Herrington (James Madison University) says the white-columned plantation house is one of the most enduring and divisive icons of American architecture. Also: The history of segregation is not just in our architecture, but in other public arts. John Ott (James Madison University) is studying how artists in the early 20th century represented integration in their works, particularly in public murals and sculptures.

In this episode Patti Anahory speaks with Mabel O. Wilson, professor of architecture and Associate Director at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, New York. Professor Wilson talks, in part, about her book Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History & Culture, which traces the journey of building the museum in all its aspects, from its conception, to its organization, content to its built manifestation. errant_praxis asks professor Wilson to share her thoughts about how to imagine new types of platforms of validation, which simultaneously construct-deconstruct, repair, archive, support and allow for a constant state of flux to accommodate the complexity of our contexts and avoid becoming part of the establishment. bio Mabel O. Wilson is a Professor of Architecture, a co-director of Global Africa Lab (GAL) and the Associate Director at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. She’s currently writing Building Race and Nation, a book about how slavery influenced early American civic architecture. She has authored Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016) and Negro Building: African Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (2012). She is a member of the design team for the Memorial to Enslaved African American Laborers at the University of Virginia. She’s a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?) a collective that advocates for fair labor practices on building sites worldwide and whose work was most recently shown in a solo show at the Art Institute of Chicago. In this episode professor Wilson mentions: Museum of African-American History and Culture https://nmaahc.si.edu/ The Smithsonian Institution https://www.si.edu/ Lonnie G. Bunch III https://www.si.edu/about/bios/lonnie-g-bunch-iii Mario Gooden https://www.arch.columbia.edu/faculty/16-mario-gooden Global Africa Lab https://www.arch.columbia.edu/research/labs/1-global-africa-lab Mpho Matsipa https://www.wits.ac.za/staff/academic-a-z-listing/m/mat/mphomatsipawitsacza/ African Mobilities Exhibition http://africanmobilities.org/ ***Episode image created from an institution-icon from: Icon made from Icon Fonts is licensed by CC BY 3.0

Conversation recorded with Mabel O. Wilson in New York on May 1, 2016 http://the-archipelago.net/2016/05/26/mabel-o-wilson-design-racism-2-can-the-masters-tools-dismantle-the-masters-house/