Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1324-3349
Abstract
In this piece, the author analyzes a recorded digital walk through Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OF THOSE THAT ARE NOT, a digital archival place designed to contain, protect, and share the experiences of Black trans people. The author’s encounter with Brathwaite-Shirley’s work is contextualized and analyzed through critical and decolonial place lenses and digital materialist lenses. Particular attention is paid to the ways physical and digital places crafted in colonial contexts bodily habituate settler-colonial sensibilities. The author examines how the critical digital placemaking strategies practiced by Brathwaite-Shirley informed teacher and student place-craft within the context of a summer camp program focusing on youth crafting of 3D digital environments. The author suggests that such strategies of critical digital place-craft are relevant for contemporary educators who craft their own digital places as part of their teaching, educators who specifically engage with digital place-craft as an arts practice in their teaching, and educators likely to be faced with commercially-developed ‘metaverses’ as a part of their future teaching.
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