ABSTRACT
In a chapter focused on Afro-Descendant agricultural communities from the Historic Black Belt Region in Georgia, Destination Design School of Agricultural Estates founder Euneika Rogers-Sipp explores the process of reparative design as an alternative to oppressive natural and built environments. Rogers-Sipp describes her process of designing for CA[R+R]E (Community, Agriculture, Regeneration, Reparations, and Ecology), a model implemented in the design and planning of a 400-mile trail route along the Black Belt. She explains how living art and work in the landscape can repair the loss and damage to livelihoods, infrastructure, and people’s life chances due to ecological breakdowns that date back to the mid-eighteenth century.
