AASF: Keynote: The Architecture of Arts Education

Noted architect and educator, Dr. Craig L. Wilkins, PhD, RA, presents on what it means to make-do spatially, drawing on his work as a practitioner and activist, and suggest ways we can co-create radical, challenging, and empowering educational spaces together. Wilkins is author of The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music, which deconstructs how the marginalization of African Americans is authorized within the field of architecture and outlines how activist forms of expression shape and sustain communities, fashioning an architectural theory around the site of environmental conflict constructed by hip-hop culture. Dr. Wilkins will consider the role of institutional space–and practices ambivalent to its sanction–in the production of transformative sites, art and artists.