Black in Design 2025 Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures
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About this Event
Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures is a conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Design presented by the Black Student Union (formerly African American Student Union) and Africa GSD. This event investigates the Black praxes of making space, taking space, and creating “tools for living” through three interconnected themes: Black theologies, Black ecologies, and Black geographies. It explores the complex relationships between belief systems, environments, and lands that shape Black communities across the diaspora. Design serves as both terrain and a tool to explore lineage, land, and lore as intertwined forces shaping our communities. Through keynote panels, workshops, performances, and creative exchanges, the conference critically examines histories of migration, displacement, and resilience in the context of ongoing political and environmental crises. Through dialogue and creative expression, Black Roots foregrounds how Black spatial practices shape, and are shaped by, resistance, resilience, and regeneration.
Schedule of Livestream
A comprehensive conference schedule and details about our speakers are now available at blackindesign.org . The list below includes conference events that will be viewable on the livestream above.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 07, 2025
“From Ecologies to Geographies”
4:00 PM-4:30 PM | Opening Ceremony / Address
4:30 PM-6:00 PM | Ancestral Fabrications: Crafting Collective Memory (Panel)
6:30 PM-8:00 PM | Keynote: The Spider, The Rabbit and The Preacher Man
Saturday, November 08, 2025
“From Geographies to Theologies”
8:45 AM-9:00 AM | Morning Address: BiD Co-Chairs
9:00 AM-10:30 AM | Blueprints for Liberation: Black Infrastructures of Creation and Care (Panel)
3:00 PM-4:30 PM | Grounds of Inheritance: Land, Law, and Sovereignties (Panel)
5:00 PM-6:30 PM | Evening Keynote: Princess Adedoyin Talabi Faniyi, in conversation with Dr. Tracey E. Hucks
7:00 PM-7:30 PM | Closing Remarks: BiD Co-Chairs
Sponsors
The GSD gratefully acknowledges the support of the Graham Foundation and the Tawan Davis Impact Foundation in making this conference possible.
Harvard University welcomes individuals with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you would like to request accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact the Public Programs Office at (617) 496-2414 or [email protected] in advance of your participation or visit. Requests for American Sign Language interpreters and/or CART providers should be made at least two weeks in advance. Please note that the University will make every effort to secure services, but that services are subject to availability.
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