Rebuilding the City From the Bottom Up (Part I)

Listen to Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin speak with the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), one of the nation's few independent architecture schools. They discuss urbanism, architecture, and planning in a rare speculative treat. In part one of this two-part episode about rebuilding the city, Lorenzo recounts some of his educational history with urbanism, city planning, and local struggles organizing with the Black Autonomy Federation in Atlanta. This event took place in front of the Mobile Architecture Platform Apparatus (MAPA), a bicycle-powered mobile archive of scanned building parts for co-envisioning new worlds out of dismantled old ones, part of the "Views of Planet City" exhibition at the SCI-Arc Gallery (September 13, 2024 – February 14, 2025). You can watch the full video on Youtube with an introduction by John Cooper. Additionally, thanks to Theo Parrish for letting us use his track "Serengeti Echoes" in the show.

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Rebuilding the City From the Bottom Up (Part I) is an episode from Black Autonomy Podcast by Black Autonomy Federation.

This episode is 32:07 long.

This episode was published on Mar 22, 2025.

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