Exhibition Farewell & Social Hour: CFA Lab’s Seeking Home & Making Refuge in NYC

Come join the AIANY LGBTQIA+ Alliance as we bid farewell to the exhibition CFA Lab: Seeking Home and Making Refuge in NYC, closing Saturday, March 23. Don't miss this wonderful opportunity for fellow professionals to meet and discuss the exhibition with one of the CFA Lab residents, A.L. Hu of Queeries. You will even be able to fill out a final postcard to be incorporated as part of the overall exhibition. We hope you can join us for a relaxing social hour with your colleagues. Food and refreshments will be provided.

Speaker:
A.L. Hu, NOMA, AIA, NCARB, EcoDistricts AP; 2023-2024 CFA Lab Resident, Queeries: Designing Reality Equitably and Madly (Q:DREAM)


About Queeries:
Queeries: Designing Reality Equitably and Madly (Q:DREAM) leverages the Center for Architecture’s physical and virtual properties to enact an emergent research-creation process that asks queer people: “What are your definitions of ‘home’?” The project spotlights NYC’s queer architects, designers, organizations, and places at different scales, with a participatory component for folks to recognize and celebrate the spaces they call “home.” “Designing Reality” refers to the creation of space for imagining worlds where queer folks have autonomous agency over their lives, while “Equitably and Madly” expresses parallel principles of equity of access, pride, and extraordinary imagination. Multimedia storytelling and queer data analysis expands the frame of “home” to encompass queer families, support networks, spaces of one’s own, privacy, security, and stability. Through the course of the residency, Q:DREAM will begin to build a living archive that documents and celebrates queer designers, their work, and their desires.

About the Speaker:
A.L. Hu, NOMA, AIA, NCARB, EcoDistricts AP, is a transgenderqueer Taiwanese-American architect, activist, and organizer. Their interdisciplinary practice synthesizes organizing for racial, class, and gender justice with world-building and spatial planning; queers the architect’s role in facilitating accessible spaces; and manifests in design, visual media, cartographies, events, and collaborative cultural work. Hu was a 2019-2021 Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow and they are currently Design Initiatives Manager at Ascendant Neighborhood Development in East Harlem. They are a core member of Design as Protest and Dark Matter U. Hu provides brainpower and energy for Queeries, an ongoing community-building design-queering initiative for and by LGBTQIA+ architects and designers.