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Isidor Studio's team included Mel Isidor as the lead booklet designer and Sarah Rege as the illustrative graphics lead. The interplay of typography and other design elements creates a balance of formality and playfulness. Furthermore, collage-cut shapes and iconography play off the aesthetics of the BlackSpace manifesto. Key illustrative graphics included a process diagram, community map, and an axon series demonstrating proposed building use and activation strategies.
The design strategy book is led by BlackSpace Urbanist Collective in partnership with Brownsville Heritage House to reimagine its existing space as the neighborhood’s public “living room.” The vision includes space to house the extensive archive, curate exhibitions, and cultivate an expanding programming ecosystem. Leveraged by an incredible passion, a diverse knowledge base, and a mission to ensure BHH thrives beyond the next forty years, the design strategy aims to provide clarity of goals in creating an environment that enriches BHH’s tremendous legacy.
Preserving African American Places seeks to understand the implications of place-based injustice and their impact on the preservation of African American cultural heritage, as well as to identify preservation-based strategies for equitable growth and development that respect the historical and present-day realties and conditions of African American Neighborhoods.
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In the summer of 2018, ten students at universities across the United States were selected as AACHAF Research Fellows and were commissioned to research and write essays on neighborhood change and historic preservation in ten study cities.
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