in≈sular storytelling
presented by Fellow Maria Luiza de Barros and Gabriela Leandro Pereira
Thursday October 24, 2024
Free Lecture
5pm–6pm
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
Fall Fellow Maria Luiza presents as part of her Fall Residency at the IPA, in≈sular storytelling, a series of dialogues exploring spatial practices and knowledge. These conversations are between Maria, born on the island of Vitória (Espírito Santo, Brazil) and now residing on Governors Island (New York City, USA), and people whose work intersects with the waters of the South Atlantic.
This week, one of these dialogues will take place in New York, between Maria and professor Gabriela Leandro Pereira, when over two days, they will engage in collaborative storytelling through a city tour, attuning themselves to the geographies that shape Black experiences. They invite everyone to join them for an open conversation in Fort Greene Park.
Where: Fort Greene Park (meeting at Dekalb Ave w Washington Park), Brooklyn
When: 5pm - 6pm
Free.
This week, one of these dialogues will take place in New York, between Maria and professor Gabriela Leandro Pereira, when over two days, they will engage in collaborative storytelling through a city tour, attuning themselves to the geographies that shape Black experiences. They invite everyone to join them for an open conversation in Fort Greene Park.
Where: Fort Greene Park (meeting at Dekalb Ave w Washington Park), Brooklyn
When: 5pm - 6pm
Free.
Maria Luiza de Barros is a Brazilian architect, researcher, and independent curator based in São Paulo. Her work explores interdisciplinary approaches to urban studies, drawing from Urbanism, Architectural Culture, Theory and Criticism. With a Master's degree in Geography from the Federal University of Espírito Santo, she specializes in the area of Space, Culture, and Language. As a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP), her research project, "vi.bra.tion: Composition on Ways of Being and Doing in the City Through Afrodiasporic Sonorities," investigates sound epistemologies and their relation to urban spaces in Brazil.
Gabriela Leandro Pereira (Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil) a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Architecture and the Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Bahia. She is a member of the Lugar Comum Research Group and coordinator of the Corpo, Discurso e Território Study Group. She is co-author of the multimedia essay “Ruins of the South Atlantic”, published by Ellipses Journal (2023, South Africa). In 2024 she was co-curator of the Open Study “Architectures of Revolt” (Goethe Institut – Salvador) with the South African resident architect Huda Tayob. She currently coordinates the project “The fabulous inventory of the Material History of Cities” and “Transatlantic Shares”, at the Federal University of Bahia. And she is an Advisor to Casa Sueli Carneiro, an organization in memory of black women’s activism based in São Paulo.
