Take Care addresses Caribbean architecture + aesthetics via social ecologies. It features writing by Shani Strand, Rianna Jade Parker, Luis Rivera Jiménez, Kearra Amaya Gopee and Shameekia Shantel Johnson, alongside a photo essay by Zenobia.

Designed by Neta Bomani @ Sojourners for Justice Press, 2024

This zine was fashioned for the exhibition "Modeling Ecologies: Take Care," hosted by the research project Sucking Salt and supported by revisions. This exhibition hopes to nurture discourse around architectures of the Caribbean. From the Bahamas to Trinidad and Tobago, the expanse of its contents consider some of the built heritages of the Caribbean’s particular material, social, and political landscapes across various scales of thinking. Working through and with the concept of architectures, Modeling Ecologies: Take Care poses the built environment as an infrastructure for social relations that is inextricable from its ecological context. Acknowledging the archive as but one expression of an otherwise inexpressible past, architectures in the plural also helps us to reflect on Architecture itself as a set of relationships between socialities, landscapes, and ecosystems.

Sucking Salt is a project by artists Shani Strand and Zenobia that focuses on archiving Caribbean architecture and aesthetics for continued research. It is an effort to diversify architectural history to include and consider the Caribbean as a major site of material importance and of intersection between various cultures and colonial histories. If architecture is a way of bringing the past into the present, shaping the future, and dictating public and private spaces, it provides a space for creolization to be made visible in the aesthetics of structure and landscapes.

revisions is an experimental media initiative of re:arc institute and a platform for conversation around architectures of planetary well-being—a framework that acknowledges the interdependence of our social and ecological systems. The platform supports alternative perspectives across rhetorical and visual formats, cultivating approaches to planetary consciousness that prioritize custodianship and care.