{"id":62687,"date":"2024-11-22T14:19:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/?p=62687"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:45:16","slug":"professor-explores-repair-as-a-design-tool-in-places-journal-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/2024\/11\/22\/professor-explores-repair-as-a-design-tool-in-places-journal-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Explores Repair as a Design Tool in Places Journal Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An essay by Assistant Professor of Architecture Kyle Spence is included in a series of \u201cField Notes\u201d published this fall in <em>Places Journal<\/em>. Founded in 1983, <em>Places Journal<\/em> is a leading national platform for public scholarship on contemporary architecture, landscape, and urbanism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spence\u2019s &#8220;Repair as a Paradigm for Design and Community Healing,&#8221; appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/placesjournal.org\/article\/field-notes-on-repair-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the fourth installment of the eight-part series, \u201cField Notes: Repair,\u201d<\/a> which presents observations by scholars, designers, planners, and activists on the issues they find most relevant in practices of repair, maintenance, and care. In his essay, Spence reflects on the idea of \u201crepair as a design tool,\u201d based on a community-engaged project that he conducted in Apalachicola, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apalachicola is a small coastal town on the Gulf of Mexico that is home to a historic Black community called The Hill. For decades, this fishing village was the oyster capital of Florida and a major national source for oysters, but pollution and climate change and a subsequent moratorium on oyster harvesting have decimated the fishing industry. Apalachicola has since experienced significant economic and population shifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a visiting assistant professor at Florida A&amp;M University in nearby Tallahassee, Spence learned about Apalachicola and in particular the work of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hcola.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hillside Coalition Of Laborers (H\u2019COLA)<\/a>, an organization devoted to the preservation and promotion of The Hill. For years, H\u2019COLA has presented an African-American History Festival in Apalachicola each February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridien-Dome-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Meridien Dome installation in Apalachicola, Florida\" class=\"wp-image-62691 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridien-Dome-1.jpeg 2000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridien-Dome-1-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridien-Dome-1-1000x667.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridien-Dome-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridien-Dome-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridien-Dome-1-1400x933.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridien-Dome-1-300x200.jpeg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2000\/1333;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kyle Spence with his Meridian Dome sundial installation at the African-American History Festival in Apalachicola, Florida, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was for the 20<sup>th<\/sup>-anniversary festival in 2023 that Spence designed and built his Meridian Dome, a giant equinoctial sundial that provided an opportunity for him to explore \u201cwhat individuals need in order to feel rooted in their spaces\u201d and to \u201cuncover migratory patterns that connect human identity with place,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Meridian Dome arched over a 20-foot world map, with Apalachicola at its center. Visitors to the festival were prompted to identify \u201cmigrations, homelands, home \u2013 places where you are from,\u201d which they marked with oyster shells and yarn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Meridian-Dome.jpg\" alt=\"details of the Meridian Dome map\" class=\"wp-image-62693 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Meridian-Dome.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Meridian-Dome-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Meridian-Dome-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Meridian-Dome-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Meridian-Dome-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Meridian-Dome-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Meridian-Dome-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2000\/1333;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPlacing their city at the center was meaningful,\u201d Spence said, noting that while people who interacted with the map came from many places, a pile of shells grew at Apalachicola, signifying the town\u2019s longtime residents. That mound also echoed an even deeper history: the ancient Native American oyster shell mounds, or middens, found along the coasts of Florida and the eastern seaboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spence became interested in solar time and sundials more than a decade ago, when he was living and working in New York City\u2019s Harlem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTimekeeping undertaken as a collective act helps us to understand the unique nature of a specific location, and this, in turn, fosters a sense of shared history and identity, both of which are crucial for the repair of community bonds,\u201d he wrote in his <em>Places<\/em> essay. \u201cCommunities like Apalachicola are built on past generations who navigated using celestial bodies as they sought to establish permanence and community, even in spaces marked by colonialism and migration. By convening conversations around these historical phenomena, we can better understand our present-day social environment, helping communities to build their own archives and narratives and fostering a deeper sense of identity and continuity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridian-Dome-4.jpg\" alt=\"people interacting with the Meridian Dome project\" class=\"wp-image-62697 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridian-Dome-4.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridian-Dome-4-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridian-Dome-4-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridian-Dome-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridian-Dome-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridian-Dome-4-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/11\/Kyle-Spence_Meridian-Dome-4-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2000\/1333;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Rather than being a goal to achieve, repair can function as a design tool that fosters dialogue about participants\u2019 futures, both in the spaces they now occupy and in those they claim in their narratives of home,&#8221; Spence wrote in his Places Journal essay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essay by Assistant Professor of Architecture Kyle Spence is included in a series of \u201cField Notes\u201d published this fall in Places Journal. 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