Charleston: Curating Exclusion

Date

Spring 2016

Authors

Javier Ors Ausin (MDes ’17)

Megan Mahala Echols (MUP ’16)

Dana McKinney White

Guan Min (MDes ’17)

Euneika Rogers-Sipp (Loeb Fellow ’16)

Faculty Advisors

George Thomas

Susan Snyder

• Urban Planning and Design
• MArch I
• MDes
• MUP

Javier Ors-Ausin (MDes CC ’17), Dana McKinney (MArch I/MUP ’17), Megan Mahala Echols (MUP ’16), Guan Min (MDes CC ’17), Euneika Rogers-Sipp (Loeb Fellow ’16)

This research studied representations of power in the built environment. Charleston, SC served as our case study as a “Hegemonic Identity City”, where its built environment has become a tourist destination using the lens of white identity throughout time to construct the material character of the city’s history, largely excluding African Americans and their culture as the main narrative.