Guests in this episode include Dr. Kwesi Daniels – Associate Professor and Department Head of Architecture at Tuskegee University – and LaStarsha McGarity (Conservator Spotlight), Conservator and Co-Director of the Legacy Museum at Tuskegee University
Our hosts Kayla Henry-Griffin and Nylah Byrd introduce us to Preservation for the People and what it means to be a Black art conservator. They talk to Dr. Kwesi Daniels about conservation, preservation, the difference between the two, and what the future of the field might look like.
Dr. Kwesi Daniels is the Head of the Architecture Department at Tuskegee University. His professional experience ranges across various disciplines, including historic preservation, architecture, sustainability management, and urban geography. He developed the historic preservation program at Tuskegee University, within the Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science. The goal of the program is to train architecture and construction science management students to handle the nuances of historic properties using technology like laser scanning, photogrammetry, 3D printing, drones, virtual reality and augmented reality. He earned a BArch and MArch in architecture from Tuskegee University and the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MS in sustainability management from Columbia University. In 2020 he earned a Ph.D. in urban geography from Temple University. His doctoral research focused on the positive and negative social impact universities can have on communities around their campuses, particularly communities of color.
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