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Is This What the Family Home of the Future Will Look Like?
Hadley Keller
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Spoiler: This family home includes a sanctuary, home brewery, and in-home doctor s office.
“How can a response to despair be hope?” That, says architect Nina Cooke John, was the foundational question behind the Black Artist + Designers Guild s Obsidian Virtual Concept House >P, an interactive virtual showhouse debuting today. In it, 25 creators architects, interior designers, artists, makers, and more have conceptualized the Black family home of the future in a project that serves as a referendum on design, race, and life in America post-COVID.
The despair Cooke John cites, of course, is the current pandemic, which has taken a breathtaking toll on countries around the world. In the U.S., the virus had an especially harsh impact on Black Americans, with African Americans hospitalized at 3.7 times the rate of White Americans and dying at 2.8 times the ....

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