Tyler White

Centered on a philosophy of unearthing the ‘subjugated knowledges,’ Tyler White is a research-organizer, artist, and activist seeking to expose the historicity and locus of resistance, resilience, and adaptation to develop strategic methods that build new worlds and systems of racial, environmental, and class justice. A graduate of Swarthmore College, White is currently a dual master’s student in Design Studies Narratives and Urban Planning at Harvard GSD. White is helping lead the Harvard Community Development Project, the Harvard Climate Leaders Program, and Harvard Urban Planning Organization. Fulfilling his interest in narrative design, and curatorial research, White has research affiliations with the Harvard CAM Lab, Letitia Carson Legacy Project, Destination Design School of Agricultural Estates, and other community-led organizations using insurgent practices to free the land and the people.

Project: Conversations from the Start of the End of the World creates space for black and indigenous communities to claim authority of their authentic contributions to design, and the developed knowledge systems that have sustained placemaking through environmental violence and white supremacist world-making. As a multimedia oral history and digital platform, Conversations pairs black and indigenous-led spatial justice organizations in dialogue to elucidate shared principles, and approaches for a co-liberatory approach to building anti-colonial, reparative, and just spatial kinships.