Germane Barnes’s lecture, The Art of Story Telling, reflects on how his practice uses architecture and design to tell stories of underrepresented groups. With projects spanning the globe, from Italy to Spain to Germany and the expansive landscape of the United States, the capacity and possibilities of design become evident.
The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Clinical Associate Professor Ania Jaworska.
Free and open to all.
Wednesday, November 18, 4:30 pm
Room 1100 A+DS
845 W. Harrison St.
Chicago, IL 60607
Germane Barnes is a licensed architect, designer, and founding principal of Studio Barnes, a research and design practice that investigates the connection between architecture and identity, examining architecture’s social and political agency through historical research and design speculation. His work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, at MoMA in the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, and at the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. His project Griot, presented at the 2023 Biennale Architettura, The Laboratory of the Future, was widely published.
Figure credits: 1–2. The Transform 1012 Center for Arts and Community Healing (project), Studio Barnes + ch_studio, Fort Worth, Texas. Courtesy of Studio Barnes. 3. A Spectrum of Blackness, 2021. Courtesy of Studio Barnes.