Fieldwork

Site-based research across infrastructure and environment.

Design work by V. Mitch McEwen

Water

Watercraft map
Watercraft
on Detroit’s subsidy to its suburbs & slum clearance by infrastructure pricing
Mitch McEwen—Watercraft: Detroit Water Infrastructure and Its Protocols of Sprawl and Displacement
“Water(craft) Has Never Been Modern,” in Ways of Knowing Cities
See also Freshwater Discussion Guide by Dream Hampton

Migration

2,340 Miles from 1880 film still
2,340 Miles from 1880
Collaboration with filmmaker Zion Estrada to produce a film for the Black Reconstruction Collective’s contribution to the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. An abstract meditation on black leisure as resistance based on archival research of plantation worker strikes in Louisiana.
Role: maps, drawings, and concept of UnMonument to the Great Migration.

Air

Aerosol Reparations image
Aerosol Reparations
Methodological tutorial developed with the Center for Spatial Research.

Black Imagination

Black Imagination Matters
Black Imagination Matters
IdeasCity: New Orleans
Directed a six-month initiative including the selection of fellows for a weeklong residency in New Orleans, and a cycle of public events in Toronto, New Orleans, and the Bronx.