Part of the By the People: Designing a Better America public programs at MOAD. The exhibition is organized by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and curated by Cynthia E. Smith; the presentation at MOAD is organized by Senior Curator Wanda Texon. Public programs are curated by Dr. Ariadna Hernandez-Reguant.
Roundtable
What can architecture and urban planning do to mitigate racial inequality? Do we still believe that residential racial integration is the solution? Miami’s lines of racial segregation have barely moved since the time of the Civil Rights movement, as incoming immigrants settled in neighborhoods according to preexisting demographics. As much of the African American middle class, just like its white counterpart, fled to the suburbs in the last decades of the twentieth century, and as urban policies crafted in the aftermath of the 1968 Fair Housing Act were increasingly defunded and abandoned, black neighborhoods experienced a decline. How can new “placemaking” initiatives, largely spearheaded by communities and the non-profit sector, contribute to overcoming segregation?
Panelists: Neil Hall (Overtown’s Urban Collective/Arts Africa), Dr. Willie Logan (Opa-locka Community Development Corporation), Dr. Moses Shumow (FIU), and Shekeria Brown (South Florida Development Coalition). Moderated by Dr. Robin Bachin (University of Miami).