Randa Omar
Articles
Dispatches
5/11/23
Climate Is a Mother
Cambridge —
If a school of architecture seems an odd venue for a climate-themed film festival, it is.
1/11/23
Promo Talk
Brooklyn Navy Yard —
“The scandal isn’t the sex.”
10/26/22
"Nueva Vivienda" Book Launch
Houston —
The lessons taken from the infill projects are particularly relevant to American and Canadian cities trying to re-densify their urban centers.
10/11/22
Citizen Architect
Massachusetts —
Milton S.F. Curry argued that race and Blackness are necessary “theoretical vehicles” for training “citizen architects.” More adequate frameworks for learning—for instance, a race-integrated course track and an expanded canon—are needed at the university level, but also earlier than that.
6/2/22
The Black Atlantic
East Village —
The artists spoke fondly of seeing visitors engaging freely with the pieces—not only seeing the sculptures, but also touching them.
4/22/22
Writing as a Collective Practice
Zoom —
“Our call is for thinking seriously about working philosophies rather than hard methods.”
Zoom —
“It’s not that people cannot afford a housing unit; it’s that they cannot afford a housing unit where they need it.”