This project operates as a counter‐story, one that highlights forgotten or suppressed historical narratives. It traces how indigenous Sudanese communities, both before and after the referendum, were displaced by enduring colonial legacies, even as those in power quietly reauthored the histories of the very urban landscapes these communities once shaped. By exposing this erasure of place-based memory, the work underscores the imperative for architectural and urban-design interventions that recover and honor indigenous spatial legacies, and lays bare the willful indifference of dominant authorities to southern marginalization, a stance that reverberates in contemporary conflicts.          

By examining how identity politics and religious instrumentalization both fuel and are inscribed into the built environment, this counter-narrative reframes Sudan’s urban history not as passive loss but as an ongoing struggle for resistance and reclamation of space.           

Full project available upon request.

Course: Difference and Design
Instructor: Justin Garrett Moore