What is BIM?

BIM Incubator participants shuttle between the aesthetic and technical realms in what theorist Donna Haraway calls sympoiesis–a companioned knowledge or mode of making-with. Traditionally, BIM as an acronym in architecture refers to Building Information Modeling, a computational method of project delivery that has been professionalized in the last 2 decades. BIM Incubator scrambles this acronym in unexpected ways:

Beyond Intelligent Machines / Building Information Magic / Black Imagination Matters / Black Is More / BIM………………………………………………………………….

Moving between these conceptual horizons, BIM Incubator brings together participants from disparate fields of knowledge to think collaboratively about blackness and black culture in relation to architecture and also produce work that expands the scope of both architecture and the African American intellectual tradition as they intersect around notions of technology, technique, media, or genre.