The Africatown International Design Idea Competition, Vereinigte Staaten
Gespeichert von leon am Mi., 08/10/2022 - 08:32The Africatown International Design Idea Competition
Introduction
Africatown shot to the forefront of the world’s consciousness with the sensational May 2019 discovery of the sunken slave ship Clotilda in the Mobile River Delta. It illegally brought 110 kidnapped West Africans to America’s shores in 1860. After a short enslavement, and unable to return home, 32 of the Africans formed and governed their own community in 1865. Their descendants and the community they founded exist today, but Africatown suffers from generations of benign neglect and industrial encroachment.