An Imaginary Reconstruction of Blackness in Africville, Mapping and Place Making
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Africville is a two-and-a-half-acre lot that is home to a northerly park in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was a community that was razed for fifteen years, starting in 1964 after the Halifax City Council decided to rezone the land for industrial use. This decision eventually became psychologically hostile and regressive to the black citizens as it took shape in enacting dispossession and spatial injustice that brought with it several forms of racial marginalization strategies. Eventually, this seaside country village would cease to exist after its original formation in 1848. Through a counternarrative lens, the project explores forms of memory, re-memory, and resistance in making as speculative social interventions of a broader context of commemoration through black memorials and spaces. It includes utilizing pedagogical lessons learned in architectural design and conservation. This would position the project’s proposal towards reinterpreting the Afro-Canadian experience within a responsive and engaging and contemporary framework.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.033 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".