BLACK GIRL, HOLD HOME, 2023

Committed to social and spatial equity, Catherine Chattergoon is passionate about architecture as a social practice centered on community engagement and generating agency and advocacy. Consistently investigating how art can drive change and consciousness, her architectural design and art are informed by centering lived experiences, empower- ing underrepresented voices, and investigating how place and memory shape who we are and how we connect with the world around us. “I believe in the transformative potential of art to connect us, that architecture is a moment of encounter that holds us here together, that photography can make memories material and defy the fleeting nature of time, that writing is both a way for us to shape our own worlds and connect to the interior worlds of others and that everyday, environments of hope are created through the ways we share our creativity with the world. My recent work has been inspired by memory, home, ephemera, archives, and how we are entangled with the world around us.”