Bodies and space co-produce each other and the process of co-production originates racializing and gendering results. 

The concept, thesis, and subsequent design are informed by the historical context around the House for Josephine Baker by Adolf Loos. This research is grounded in the relationship between Primitivism and Modernism, theory on the body and flesh, architectural graphic standards, spectacle, gaze, surveillance, hypervisibility, invisibility, implications of privacy versus publicity, expressions of Blackness and its place in femmehood (a neologism that expands “womanhood” to be trans-inclusive), all of which directly engage in co-production.

Co-preduction changes how architecture “preforms” - new understandings and interactions within particular spaces. How does this reconceptualize what architects believe to be design? This is from the perspective of a Black femme body performing in architecture.

Beyond Black femme bodies interacting with architectural spaces, this questions the implicitly racialized and gendered norms of architectural design and how it anticipates certain bodies.