AIA Tennessee, NOMA Memphis and NOMAnash are hosting a Virtual Trivia Challenge in celebration of Juneteenth and the opening of the MOVE Community Development Corporation’s Africatown International Design Idea Competition!
Join us on the afternoon of Friday, June 18 at 2:30PM|CDT (3:30 PM|EDT) for an educational AND fun interactive game with NOMA & AIA members from across the state of Tennessee
About the Trivia Challenge – Friday, June 18 at 2:30 pm/CDT (3:30 pm/EDT)
There will be three rounds during the Challenge – watch AIA TN’s social media posts and emails for hints!!
Round 1: Juneteenth Knowledge – info about Juneteenth’s history and impact
Round 2: Architecture Fun Facts – general architecture related questions
Round 3: Architecture and the Black Community – highlighting African American architects and built project important to the black community
Prepare yourself for Trivia fun and do your homework! Hint: questions will be pulled from the following resources.
Architectural Digest | These Black Architects Have Shaped the World Around Us
The Directory of African American Architects
The Root | The Other Black Wall Streets
CNN | The Juneteenth flag is full of symbols. Here’s what they mean.
Interior Design | 10 Pioneering African American Architects and the Legacy Buildings They Designed
EP Minority Scholarships for Licensure
The event will be raising funds for EP Minority Scholarships, which will help minority members in Tennessee pay for expenses incurred for licensure. A donation of any amount is recommended when you sign up.
Thank you to those who have already contributed!
Foster Sponsors:
Creative Design Professionals Architecture, LLC
EOA Architects
Jeanne Myers, AIA
Josh Shaffer, AIA
Melody Gibson, Assoc. AIA
NOMA Memphis
Richard-Allen Foster, AIA
Sophorn Olsen, AIA
Jubilee Sponsors:
Design Love Studio
Gould Turner Group
Jarrod Arellano, AIA
MHM (McCarty Holsaple McCarty)
McKissack Sponsors:
Aaron Patrick Architects
Linda Marzialo, AIA
Self+Tucker Architects
Smith Gee Studio
Juneteenth Sponsors:
Manual Zeitlin Architects
About the Africatown International Design Idea Competition
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.
The Africatown International Design Idea Competition leverages the spectacular Clotilda find to give multi-disciplinary design teams a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to imagine a revived Africatown, with 16 land and water-edged venues on 4 sites across 3 cities that interpret and honor its history.
Taken together, the 16 venues are destined to constitute a major new cultural heritage tourism destination system called The Africatown Cultural Mile™. (Reference: Introduction @ https://africatowndesign.com/)
Registration for the Design Competition opens June 19, 2021.
Please read on and learn more about the Design Competition by visiting https://africatowndesign.com/