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A contextualizing archive for ancestral, intuitive, and subjective memory-keeping. Consisting of material, written, visual, and sonic ephemera this archive is oriented by our intuitive pedagogy and interdependent research development. Thesis collections and exhibitions are regularly produced to concentrate the archive’s scope and engage in re-membering as a social practice.













Research Journal


A collection of subjective research that provides context for contemporary studies — this mix of ancestral and intuitive documentation is curated communally in support of figuring it out together.


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We Are Not Strangers Here by Ravi Howard
[Research Citation]
→ Nature
→ Abundance
Rerendering Freedom
by Jordan Silver
[Original Research]
→ Abundance
How to practice opening up your throat chakra and refamiliarize yourself with screaming as a Black Angeleno
by Asha Grant
[Original Research]
→ Movement
Nature As Archive
by Asha Grant
[Original Research]
→ Nature
Curiositiez and notes on Space and Place
by Asha Grant
[Original Research]
→ Space
→ Technology
Time Fellowship Guided Practice
by Sharla Berry
[Original Research]
→ Movement
→ Space
→ Technology
→ Time  
October 21st 2023
by Sharla Berry
[Original Research]
→ Nature
→ Time
→ Love
E L U C I D // Joy James
by Ephraim Owairu
[Original Research]
→ Movement
→ Space
→ Love



Orisanmi Burton On Black Masculine Care Work Within Zones Of War c/o Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
by Ephraim Owairu
[Original Research]
→ Love

A frank bar from Billy Woods
by Ephraim Owairu
[Original Research]
→ Technology
→ Movement
→ Abundance


Griot Mythology via Arthur Jafa
by Ephraim Owairu
[Original Research]
→ Technology
Saretta Morgan Quote on Love
by Crea Jackson
[Original Research]
→ Love
Intelligent Mischief Zine: For Black Folks Who Have Considered Governance
by Crea Jackson
[Original Research]
→ Abundance
→ Love
→ Technology
Pélagie Gbaguidi: The Body as Archive by Jareh Das c/o Ocula
by Crea Jackson
[Research Citation]
→ Technology
→ Time
An Interview With Alexis Pauline Gumbs by Kameelah Janan Rasheed c/o Believer
by Crea Jackson
{Original Research}
→ Nature
→ Love

Archipelago Manifesto
[Research Citation]
→ Movement
→ Space
→ Nature

RUN.
[Original Research]
by Kwaku Beke
→ Movement
→ Nature
Presence Prompt: Telepathic Rhythms
[Original Research]
→ Movement
The Mighty Boll Weevil
by Jacob Nadir Gray
[Original Research]
→ Movement
→ Nature  
Mercier on Movement
by Alex Mercier
[Original Research]
→ Movement
Let’s get it going
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Movement
Embodying Resistance: Reclaiming Sovereignty through Adornment
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
→ Abundance
→ Love

David Adjaye and Rick Lowe, moderated by Thelma Golden c/o Gagosian
[Research Citation]
→ Space
Tea as Technology: Returning to Sacred Stillness
by Altagracia Alvarado
→ Time
→ Technology  
The Sublime Nature of Spiral Time
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
→ Time
on tine
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
→ Abundance
→ Time
Ya'll need to wrap it up!
by Marvin James
[Original Research
→ Technology
→ Abundance
Ori Veneration: Liberation through Adornment
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
→ Technology
→ Abundance
→ Nature
The (Ori)gins of Technology
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
→ Technology
→ Abundance
→ Nature
Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local by Taiye Selasi c/o TED
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Movement
Bye-Bye Babar by Taiye Selasi
[Research Citation]
→ Space

Resting on and for the Earth w/ Tricia Hersey by Brontë Velez c/o Atmos
[Research Citation]
→ Time
→ Nature
Negro Women To Be Put To Work c/o The Greenville News (1918)
[Research Citation]
→ Time
→ Abundance
Nature As Currency
by Kayla Jones-Dudley
[Original Research]
→ Nature
Paradigm Shift: Nature as Nurture
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
→ Nature
→ Time
FILMMAKING AS ARCHIVE MAKING
by Kwaku Beke
[Original Research]
IN PURSUIT OF LOST VISIONS
by Kwaku Beke
[Original Research]
The Art of the Possible
by Annalie Juan
[Original Research]
→ Time
A Girl and A Snake Dreams
by Annessa De La Cruz
[Original Research]
→ Love
→ Time
Trumpeterring to Mars
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Technology
→ Abundance

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy c/o Jeffrey Dessources
by Annalie Juan
[Original Research]
→ Technology
→ Time
Al Wasi: The Love that Embraces All
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
→ Love
Moon Cycles and Our Mysteries
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
→ Nature
→ Abundance
Love Looks Like...
by Annessa De La Cruz
[Original Research]
→ Love
→ Time
Eurocentric Archives are Propaganda
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
→ Time
→ Love
→ Abundance
Sacred Adornment: Jewelry as Sacred Technology
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
→ Technology
→ Abundance
Seeing Black Futures by Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew c/o The New York Times
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
→ Time
→ Technology
How Mining the Museum Changed the Art World by Kerr Houston c/o BmoreArt
[Research Citation]
→ Time
→ Abundance
Mondragon through a Critical Lens by Jill Bamburg c/o Fifty by Fifty Employee Ownership News
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Ep 8:1 Worker Cooperatives — Widening Spheres of Democracy c/o Upstream
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Intuition: The Healing Frequency of the Present
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
→ Abundance
Pineal Gland [Intuition] Unlocking
by Annalie Juan
[Original Research]
→ Nature
The Black Sanitation Workers Who Are Saying, ‘I Am a Man’ by Daytrian Wilken (2020) c/o New York Times
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Kwame Ture - Organisation vs Mobilisation
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
'I've Been to the Mountain Top' Address by Martin Luther King Jr (1968)
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Malcolm X's Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (1964) c/o Black Past
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
CityLab University: Shared-Equity Homeownership by Benjamin Schneider c/o Bloomberg CityLab
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance
Rosedale: The Way It Is (1976) c/o Bill Moyers Journal
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance
The Thrill of Sugar Hill by Hadley Mears c/o CURBED
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance
Kicked Off the Land by Lizzie Presser c/o The New Yorker
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance
The Surveillance of Blackness: From the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to Contemporary Surveillance Technologies w/ Simone Browne by Claudia Garcia Rojas c/o Truthout
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
→ Technology
KODWO ESHUN – NARRATIVES OF A NEAR FUTURE c/o HEAD GENEVE
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
→ Time
Greg Thomas: The Complete Fanon c/o Dar al Janub
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
The Devastation of Black Wall Street by Kimberly Fain c/o JSTOR
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
The Fancy Neighborhood of the Future Is an Earth-Friendly ‘Intentional Community’ by Gisela Williams c/o Bloomberg
[Research Citation]
→ Space
Michaele Pride-Wells: Practice what you preach (October 11, 1995) c/o SCI-ARC
[Research Citation]
→ Space
Reimagining Black Space
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Space
→ Abundance
New Africa, Mississippi
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Abundance
Ghana Passport Control
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Abundance
White Gaze / Black Guides
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Abundance
→ Technology
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE: IN PRAISE OF ROOMMATES The Precious Quality of Solitary Togetherness by Clio Chang c/o SSENSE
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance
Safiya Noble on Challenging the Algorithms of Oppression c/o PDF 2016
[Research Citation]
→ Technology
→ Abundance
Christian Benimana | The next generation of African architects and designers c/o TED
[Research Citation]
→ Space
Lecture Series: Oana Stănescu c/o Princeton School of Architecture
[Research Citation]
→ Space
Francis Kéré: African architecture should stop copying the West c/o Design Indaba
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance
Family: Oana Stanescu c/o Arper
[Research Citation]
→ Space
Podcast #189: Theaster Gates c/o New York Public Library
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Movement
Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao on Africa & China c/o ODANA Network
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Sorrow Tears & Blood c/o Fela Kuti
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Arthur Jafa c/o Scholl Lecture Series
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Rethinking Public Space by Sarah Wesseler c/o Arch League
[Research Citation]
→ Space
More details emerge for the new Center for Community and Entrepreneurship in Flushing, Queens c/o The Architects Newspaper
[Research Citation]
→ Space
Interview: Architect Oana Stănescu by Pierre Alexandre de Looz c/o PIN-UP Magazine
[Research Citation]
→ Space
The First Moral Panic: London, 1744 by Matthew Wills c/o JSTOR
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
KRS-One Lecture c/o Virginia State University
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Sembène: The Making of African Cinema c/o Manthia Diawara & Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
The Long Goodbye c/o Riz Ahmed
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Gensler Experience Framework
[Research Citation]
→ Space
The Community Builder: In Conversation with Theaster Gates c/o The Aspen Institute
[Research Citation]
→ Space
40 Acres In Heaven
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Space
Free Your Mind
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Time
→ Abundance
→ Love
Social Distancing
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Space
Donald Glover Can’t Save You By Tad Friend c/o The New Yorker
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind c/o The Wired
[Research Citation]
→ Technology
→ Time
Untitled (12/11/2018)
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Love
Stop Watching
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Space
Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art c/o TED
[Research Citation]
→ Space