Traditional cultural institutions often centralize Black history within distant, monumental museums, limiting access for the communities whose stories they claim to preserve. This session presents a student thesis research project that reframes how architectural design can support community-led storytelling through adaptable, site-responsive installations embedded in everyday spaces rooted in Black community life, including churches, parks, salons, and neighborhood gathering sites. Rather than proposing a fixed modular system, the research advances a flexible design framework that allows installations to shift between custom and pre-existing elements in response to the social, cultural, and spatial conditions of each site. Through mapping, spatial analysis, and iterative prototyping, the project examines how material choices, scale, and spatial organization can sustain joy, memory, and participation while remaining structurally sound, accessible, and publicly safe. Attendees will engage design strategies that promote equity by decentralizing access to cultural space and expanding where architectural storytelling can occur. The session emphasizes how architects can design frameworks, not monuments, that empower communities to adapt, curate, and claim ownership over their narratives while meeting health, safety, and welfare responsibilities in public environments.