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Don't count on here. Welcome everyone. Welcome to Building Solidarity, a form of mutual pedagogy between the Barnard and

Columbia campus and the public on constructed environments, urban life, and

ecologies. This dialogue series which is title which is titled Racial Justice in the Built

Environment foregrounds communities of Minneapolis, Nairobi, and New York

in order to process the conditions around the murder of George Floyd

and its aftermath in cities whose racial histories have long

impacted the built environment

and provoke recent sympathy protest.

I'm Anu Radha Siddiqui. and provoke recent sympathy protest.

I'm Anur Radha Siddiqui, and our dialogues are guided by the students in my course

colonial practices which is taught in the Barnard and Columbia Department of Architecture and the

Columbia Institute of Comparative Literature and Society. We welcome you into our

seminar classroom. Our first dialogue Institutional In inhabitations is archived on the websites of two arts

organizations, Navratin in New York and the Go Down Arts Center in Nairobi.

And today we hold our second dialogue,

Building Historical Consciousness,

which will appear on the Red Nation podcast. Our aim in these dialogues is to build mutual

solidarity between our campus and our partners, seeing us all together as

experts and as students.

And to use our platform to be as hospitable as possible

and extend the political imaginaries, community futures,

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