Sekou Cooke StoryMap
In this StoryMap, we journey with Sekou Cooke from the first Black in Design Conference at Harvard on Sunday, November 17, 2013, to his current design practice and we examine his contributions to Hip-Hop Architecture.
Sekou Cooke is an architect, researcher, educator, and curator born in Jamaica and based in Charlotte, NC. He is the Director of the Master of Urban Design program at UNC Charlotte and a recipient of the 2021/2022 Nasir Jones HipHop Fellowship at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.
In this StoryMap, we journey with Sekou Cooke from the first Black in Design Conference at Harvard on Sunday, November 17, 2013, to his design practice in sekou cooke STUDIO and examine his contributions to Hip-Hop Architecture.
Use the scrollbar on the embedded StoryMap below to explore Cooke’s work and influences.
StoryMap Credits
The Sekou Cooke StoryMap was composed by Olufemi Olamijulo, a student in the Master of Urban Planning program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Master of Public Policy program at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government.