STORIA DJEMBE
The pavilion will serve as a gathering space for the local communities. It is meant to be a place for connection, placemaking, and cultural exchange.
NEW ORLEANS
Partners and Collaborators: Kresge Foundation, Imagine Water Works
Project Budget $30,000
Size: 20’ x 30’ and 13’ tall
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4 Cease Implementation of Hostile Design
04 Restructure Relationship to Power + Capital
05 Center Community Leadership
06 Create, Protect, Reclaim Public Space
07 Cultivate Visions for Just Neighborhoods
08 Preserve and Inviest Cultural Spaces
A key element of the design for Djembe is its crown and shadow projections. The idea is to have narratives connecting the crown to the ground through story-telling components projecting shadows down to the ground and overlapping with each other on the ground plane, like a shadow zoetrope. This creates an immersive place making experience that tells stories of New Orleans’ past, present, and imagined future. Selected adinkras will be used as graphic elements to represent the culture of New Orleans’s past and present. The future will be represented by the resulting graphic from a futuresetting Adinkra making workshop with community members.
Storia: Djembe is a pavilion that embodies a conversation about cultural displacement in New Orleans, specifically grounded on Black cultures. It was inspired by and named after the musical instrument djembe, a rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum originating from West Africa. The inspiration draws both from its physical characteristics and its social connotations. This pavilion, will serve as a gathering space for the local communities. It is meant to be a place for connection, placemaking, and cultural exchange.
