The Future of Black America (Nov. 10-12, 2020)
What does it mean to be alive in the omnipresence of death? This question raised in different forms through various means and in a myriad of contexts in artistic, activist and intellectual movements has found resonance in various expressions of our daily routines. One may even say that this question is a pattern of belonging for Blacks in America.
From Negro spirituals to the oppression of tornadoes, slavery and bias in our carceral systems, Black imaginaries have been a history of entrapment, displacement and mobility. This mind mobility is a source of resilience that is both triggered by rationality and imagination. The latter of which has yet to find structural means to be improved. This exercise called Futures Literacy Lab (FLL) is the opportunity to jazz through the future, to navigate between different temporalities between life and death, and to improvise around predictions, desires and the unknown unknowns. A Futures Literacy Lab is a codesigned action-research tool that en
