nuburbia

2021
Critics: Justin Garrett Moore, Urban Patch & US Commission of Fine Arts
              Alicia Ajayi, BlackSpace Urbanist Collective

Nuburbia promotes new approaches to occupying land and building better homes for America’s changing social and cultural landscapes.

The affordable and adaptable community and homes intend to serve the wider variety of people moving to the suburbs, acknowledge the Cherokee and Creek and former plantation land they occupy, and offer new images and spaces for shaping American cultural and political ideals.

Because of its history, the image of the suburbs is linked to 1950s images of the American dream. The houses in the suburbs were designed around and for a specific type of family, and the spaces within those houses created domains that forced the subjects into performativity and dictated what the body will do within it.

Nuburbia offers a new model for suburban neighborhoods that provides an increased sense of community and adaptability, while maintaining the “single family home” structure.