Imani
Jacqueline
Brown

Imani Jacqueline Brown is an artist, activist, curator, writer, and architectural researcher from New Orleans, based in London. Her work investigates the “continuum of extractivism,” which spans from settler-colonial genocide and slavery to fossil fuel production and climate change.  In exposing the layers of violence and resistance that form the foundations of settler-colonial society, she opens space to imagine paths to ecological reparations.

Imani's practice combines photography and videography, curatorial and archival research, ecological philosophy, legal theory, people’s / oral history, remote sensing, and counter-cartography. These strategies disentangle the spatial logics that make geographies, unmake communities, and break Earth’s geology. Her research is disseminated internationally through art installations, public actions, reports, and testimony delivered to courts and organs of the United Nations.

Imani received her MA with distinction from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2019 and her BA in Anthropology and Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2010. Among other things, she is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London, a research fellow with Forensic Architecture, and an associate lecturer in MA Architecture at the Royal College of Arts.

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The Living Glossary

A project of Blights Out, The Living Glossary spells out expanded definitions for casual real estate and development terms. These simple concepts fill our language, but the coded histories beneath their connotative meanings speak to a legacy of planned, systemic oppression.

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