About
Join us for a dialogue between Hanna Hearn, previous MoAD intern and current senior at the University of San Francisco, and Justin Hosbey, assistant professor in the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley. Their conversation will address themes of Black domesticity, Black notions of “home,” and the importance of countermapping as a Black spatial practice. After their discussion, attendees will be invited to reflect on their own spatial relationships by participating in a countermapping activity.
About the Speakers
Dr. Justin Hosbey is a humanistic social scientist and Black studies scholar, currently teaching in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. His ethnographic work explores Black social and cultural life in the U.S. Gulf Coast and Mississippi Delta regions, focusing on public education, the carceral state, and climate change.
Hanna Hearn is a senior at the University of San Francisco studying Marketing and African American Studies. A previous Smithsonian intern here at MoAD, the research she did this summer on the Liberatory Living exhibition inspired her idea for this public program. A member of USF's Black Scholars Program, she has continued researching Black geographies in alignment with her senior capstone project.
This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors & Radical Black Joy on view at MoAD October 2, 2024 - March 2, 2025.