The cityscape was transformed overnight in many places in response to the demonstrations that took place after the killing of George Floyd. These photographs document the 4x8 sheathing that was installed to protect store windows and doorways along an affluent stretch of Wisconsin Avenue in Washington DC. From an architectural perspective, it played out as an accidental intervention. George Floyd’s death, by contrast, and those of many that lost their lives before him is no accident. It is no accident that no knock warrants are so easy to obtain, that police officers are shielded by qualified immunity, that jury bias exists and prosecutors favor police defendants, that suppression of misconduct data is common. It is no accident that we fail to teach the history of systemic racism in our schools. The photographs of this cityscape present a concept for a collaboration with these temporary surfaces that both mute the everyday and allow a new space for remembrance and a call to action.
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