The Prescription
Is Home
“In times such as these, how can homes, when connected, shape community power and collective transformation?”
Home is not property or ownership. It is continuity, relationship, memory, practice, and belonging. Companion to the landmark exhibition of the same name, this show enters real households in Washington, DC — Anacostia and communities east of the river — to find the medicine already practiced there, and to leave with a prescription.
Seven capacities, already practiced at home
We read home through the seven M’s — each framed as our capacity to. When these capacities connect across homes, they become a Municipality: the community’s capacity to govern what it built together. The larger outcome is Sovereignty.
- IMedicineHome as Healing SiteThe first pharmacy, clinic, and healing center is home.our capacity to heal and tend
- IIMemoryHome as Living ArchiveRecipes, photographs, and rooms that keep the record.our capacity to remember and preserve
- IIIMovementHome as CitizenshipHome shapes how we move in the world.our capacity to act and mobilize
- IVManifestationHome as Economic EngineThe kitchen, the basement, the porch as places of production.our capacity to make, sustain, and circulate
- VMeditation / Mediation / MinistryHome as Spiritual TechnologyWhere stillness, repair, and meaning-making are practiced.our capacity to contemplate, discern, make meaning, and tend
- VIMasteryHome as Training GroundThe first classroom, apprenticeship, and studio.our capacity to learn, practice, and transmit
- VIIMutual AidHome as Collective CareNo home has everything; between homes, we have what we need.our capacity to depend upon and care for one another
The Homes
This season visits real families in their homes to discover which of the seven capacities live there — and the prescription each home has to teach the world. Every episode closes with it.
- Ep. 01 · MedicineThe First PharmacyThe Douglass-Wheeler FamilyFour generations of herbal practice in one Anacostia kitchen, and the cabinet that has treated a whole block.January 23, 2026Read the Prescription
- Ep. 02 · MemoryEverything She Wrote DownThe Beckwith FamilyA grandmother's recipe box becomes the most complete archive of a neighborhood that no museum holds.January 30, 2026Read the Prescription
- Ep. 03 · MovementKitchen Table QuorumThe Ferrell HouseholdHow a Tuesday-night dinner became the most reliable civic body east of the river.February 6, 2026Read the Prescription
- Ep. 04 · ManifestationFront Room EconomyMs. Vernell's HousePlates on Friday, hair on Saturday, and forty years of a business with no sign out front.February 13, 2026Read the Prescription
- Ep. 05 · MeditationThe Quiet HourThe Rev. Amina CarterMinistry practiced from a living room: mediation, prayer, and the discipline of stillness.February 20, 2026Read the Prescription
- Ep. 06 · MasteryTaught by HandThe Okonkwo-Price FamilyA basement workshop where three generations learned to build, tune, and repair.February 27, 2026Read the Prescription
- Ep. 07 · MutualWe Got It CoveredThe Hillsdale Block CircleEleven households, one rotating fund, and a decade of nobody losing their home.March 6, 2026Read the Prescription
- Ep. 08 · MedicineThe Porch Is a ClinicThe Grady FamilyBlood pressure, grief, and gossip: what gets treated on the steps before dinner.March 13, 2026Read the Prescription
- Ep. 09 · MemoryKeeper of the HouseThe Simms SistersTwo sisters, one family home, and the negotiation of who holds the record next.March 20, 2026Read the Prescription
- Ep. 10 · ManifestationWhat We Make HereThe Alston HouseholdA garden, a sewing table, and a household budget built to hold three families.March 27, 2026Read the Prescription
- Ep. 11 · MovementHow We MoveThe Youth Council of Ward 8Young organizers on what their homes taught them about power before any campaign did.April 3, 2026Read the Prescription
- Ep. 12 · MutualMunicipalityThe Homes of Season OneThe season's families in one room, connecting their capacities into something that governs itself.April 18, 2026Read the Prescription
We are the Prescription.
The Prescription is Home.
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