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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination.
Episode: Summer School - Dr. Mabel O. Wilson, Architect and Scholar.
Description: Today’s Summer School episode from the IBI Archive is episode 2 with architect, designer, and scholar, Dr. Mabel O. Wilson. Doing double duty as a Professor of Architecture and as Associate Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies, both at Columbia University, Dr. Wilson is not your traditional designer of buildings. Her trans-disciplinary practice extends well beyond the built environment into the worlds of curation, performance, art, and cultural history.We discuss how Mabel’s problems fitting in as a young architect led to designing her own path to success (5:40), her advice for young arch...