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Living Freedom Through the Maroon Landscape

Diane Jones Allen

Citizen-activists in New Orleans are taking inspiration from 18th-century maroons, self-liberated slaves who created communal societies in an environment that challenged them with swampy ground and extreme heat, yet at the same time nourished and protected them. Today their legacy offers a powerful model for coping with climate disruption.

A vital chapter in the protohistory of American landscape design, the swampland communities established by self-liberated slaves are a powerful model for coping with climate disruption.

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Poems as Maps

Curated by Taiyon J. Coleman

Lines that trace and transgress boundaries of identity and experience.

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Future Archive

Future Archive features the online republication of significant works of 20th-century design criticism and history.

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