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Cruising the Barrio

A multidisciplinary research and design project reframes the lowrider not just as a customized vehicle, but as a mobile vessel of cultural memory, resistance, and intergenerational storytelling. This project investigates how lowrider culture operates not only as a form of mechanical customization, but as a mobile archive of identity, belonging, and intergenerational knowledge. An interrogation of power and place questions how cruising rituals have been criminalized through anti-cruising ordinances and how communities have responded through slow-speed protest, symbolic defiance, and aesthetic innovation. Lowriding becomes a language, one spoken through hydraulics, polished chrome, painted murals, and the choreography of cars moving in procession. It is both a form of survival and a celebration, reclaiming the street as a site of joy, memory, and resistance.

Exhibition - Coop Student Showcase - May 3, 2025

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