The Nexus: Season One StoryMap
This AADN StoryMap provides a geospatial preview for season one listeners, featuring Aisha Densmore-Bey, De Nichols, Bryan Lee, Jr., Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Stephen Gray, Toni Griffin, and Isabel Strauss.
The Cover of "An Opportunity for Private and Public Investment in Rebuilding Chicago," published by Illinois Institute of Technology and Chicago Plan Commission, 1947. This plan is the topic of Isabel Strauss' thesis.
The Nexus is a podcast that explores the intersection of design, identity, and practice through conversations with Black designers, writers and educators. As hosts of Season 1, students Tara Oluwafemi and Caleb Negash push the understandings of the boundaries of design in the most expansive ways possible. This AADN StoryMap provides a geospatial preview for season one listeners, featuring Aisha Densmore-Bey, De Nichols, Bryan Lee, Jr., Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Stephen Gray, Toni Griffin, and Isabel Strauss.
Use the scrollbar on the embedded StoryMap below to uncover the projects that galvanize our podcast guests and embody their prolific work. Episodes are listed in chronological order.
StoryMap Credits
The Nexus: Season One StoryMap was composed by Thandi Nyambose, student in the Master of Urban Planning program at Harvard Graduate School of Design.