Generative Histories Harlem
Location: New York, NY
Status: Completed, on view Feb - April 2025
Size: 2400ft surface area, entire floor
Exhibition team: Prof. Jerome Haferd, exhibition lead and co-director, PMCI, Prof. Curry Hackett (graphic and design support), and Pedro Cruz (graphic and content support)
Students: Mouhammadou Djieng, Gabriel Moyer-Perez, Olumide, Olusunde, Jess Nolasco, Carolina Rianchos Guevera, and Jenna Vogel
principles of the Harlem Place, Memory, & Culture Incubator at the Spitzer School
of Architecture. Supported by the Mellon Foundation, the PMCI launched in Fall
2023 with the aim to engage culture, history, aesthetics, imagination, and place
in Harlem and develop and celebrate interdisciplinary stakeholder collaboration.
The goal is to bring ever expanding and emerging notions of preservation to bear
on architecture and marshall them as a generative endeavor in the teaching and
practice of design and the built environment.
The exhibition shares student work selected from five PMCI-affiliated design
studios and the Radical Preservation seminar. Woven throughout the exhibit are
documents, clips, and other ephemera that index the collaborative relationship
with a growing ecosystem of Harlem community partners.