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Jahlik Parkes
2026 Summer FellowJahlik Parkes is an architectural designer, fabricator, educator, and founder of JAH-P Design LLC, a multidisciplinary practice operating between architecture, woodworking, urbanism, and public engagement. Based in New York City, his work explores how craft, storytelling, and diasporic spatial traditions can inform contemporary public space and collective forms of care.
A graduate of Howard University and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Jahlik’s practice bridges design research and hands-on making through installations, furniture, exhibitions, and community-centered spatial interventions. His work often investigates themes of lineage, memory, ecology, and Black spatial practices across the African diaspora.
Recent projects include “Heritage Coffee Table: Storytelling Through Making”, a handcrafted furniture installation exploring family lineage and archiving through woodworking traditions; a large-scale exhibition installation for the American Institute of Architects conference developed with USAID, IOM, Dahlia Ndoum, and Howard University students; and “Sound Di Abeng”, a research initiative examining sound, gathering, and Maroon spatial practices in Jamaica through participatory design and public engagement.
In addition to his practice, Jahlik has taught architecture and design courses at New York Institute of Technology and Howard University, where his pedagogy emphasizes making, public space, and design as an act of care. Through the IPA Residency, he aims to prototype new forms of restorative public architecture that merge craft, ecological thinking, and community assembly.
A graduate of Howard University and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Jahlik’s practice bridges design research and hands-on making through installations, furniture, exhibitions, and community-centered spatial interventions. His work often investigates themes of lineage, memory, ecology, and Black spatial practices across the African diaspora.
Recent projects include “Heritage Coffee Table: Storytelling Through Making”, a handcrafted furniture installation exploring family lineage and archiving through woodworking traditions; a large-scale exhibition installation for the American Institute of Architects conference developed with USAID, IOM, Dahlia Ndoum, and Howard University students; and “Sound Di Abeng”, a research initiative examining sound, gathering, and Maroon spatial practices in Jamaica through participatory design and public engagement.
In addition to his practice, Jahlik has taught architecture and design courses at New York Institute of Technology and Howard University, where his pedagogy emphasizes making, public space, and design as an act of care. Through the IPA Residency, he aims to prototype new forms of restorative public architecture that merge craft, ecological thinking, and community assembly.
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