Explore how the Great Migration impacted the appearance and development of Chicago public housing with Sydney Rose Maubert MA Arch '22, the College of Architecture’s 2024 Jeanne and John Rowe Fellow.

Maubert will deliver her fellowship lecture on the various impacts of the migration, in which hundreds of thousands of Black people traveled from the South to northern cities in search of a better life. Tracing Black cartographies to the Midwest, Maubert has charted the ways in which the migration horizontally expanded urban environments and their cartographic knowledge: bodily, environmentally, and cosmologically. Maubert draws on the material culture of the South and Midwest by examining how American history and architecture contributed to the appearance of the built environment. 

The event also showcases Maubert’s creative works, threading her scholarly and creative research conducted during her Rowe Fellowship.

Maubert is a Haitian-Cuban artist and architect based in Miami and Chicago. She holds degrees in architecture from Yale University and the University of Miami, and is the founder of Sydney R. Maubert LLC., her award-winning art and mural practice that has exhibited across the United States. Her work currently stands in the 21C Museum’s permanent collection.

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