VIRTUAL: Livable Cities – New York
Abstract
My book project explains the relationship between interiorities, Black queer public culture, and placemaking practices in Brooklyn, New York before and following the 1960 Stonewall Riots. Interiority refers to sets of affective formations that manifest alongside its own internal senses. Architect and professor Ali Rahim (2010) discusses that affects both include a capacity to be affected and affect. Interiorities, I argue, refer to patterns of the production of physical sites that represent Black queer public culture across spatialities, including temporal and geographic scales. I will discuss instances of restrictive zoning and other modes of structural power to understand its implication on interiorities of Black queer public culture. By an interiority of Black queer public culture, I mean a set of spatialities that reckon with the physical and mental representations of space that engender Black queer performances, histories, and legacies that resist white cisgender heteronormativity. I will explore key theoretical ideas including affect, interiority, and Black queer public culture.
Ricardo teaches urban design and interior architecture in The Design School at Arizona State University. Ricardo’s research interests include design justice, qualitative research methods, interiority, and sensation. Ricardo’s current book project, Interiorities, explores spatial marginalization, economic deprivation, anti-Blackness, and sensation across Brooklyn, New York post-Stonewall to understand how and to what extent Black queer placemaking occurs across gentrifying Brooklyn.