Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures

Schedule

Fri Nov 07 2025 at 04:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

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Harvard University Graduate School Of Design | Cambridge, MA

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Join us for the 5th biennial Black in Design Conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Open to the public, but requires tickets.
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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.

A comprehensive conference schedule and details about our speakers will be available soon at blackindesign.org .

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Meal and reception tickets will be available for purchase for registered guests.


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