#Enclosure - Global Africa Lab in conversation with Justin Moore

Justin Garret Moore, architect and urban designer and Executive Director of the NewYork City Public Design Commission joins Dr. Mabel O. Wilson and Prof. Mario Gooden of the Global Africa Lab to discuss their research and exhibition Im/mobility and the Afro-Imaginary. Their discussion explores the history of racial geography in New York, from redlining to urban renewal, looking at the physical infrastructures of segregation (roadways, expressways, and bridges) as well as the racial demography of COVID-19. New York city has been one of the key locations of both the #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) movement as well as current assorted social justice movements in the wake of the recent police murders of Black Americans coinciding with the global COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the discussion engages concepts of Blackness as a form of #Enclosure and the immobilized Black body, as well as Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the underlife theorized in her unpublished manuscript, Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World. _____________________________________________________________ The #AfricanMobilities podcast series was made possible by Goethe-Institut Johannesburg in partnership with the Wits University - School of Architecture and Planning, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Architekturmuseum de Tum and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation #AfricanMobilities #Circulations #Enclosure #GlobalAfricaLab #JustinMoore