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StoryMaps | October 18, 2023

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.