Throwing Shade imagines a network of streetscapes, open spaces, and cooling centers within walking distance that provide thermal comfort to all New Orleanians, but in particular for those most at risk. In times of emergency, the cooling centers can also be activated for rapid response.
During heatwaves, Nora Navra, and other cooling sites, will leverage their daily cooling capacities to meet the expanded needs of the community. Through both daily and rapid cooling designs, the Seventh Ward, and other neighborhoods across New Orleans, can cool safely and collectively.
Throwing Shade considers cooling as justice. It proposed heat escapes, situated within, and with the capacity to be leverage by, the Seventh Ward’s social infrastructure, as shaped by legacies of damage and desire, racism, resistance, and celebration.
