13 episodes
African Mobilities 2.0 African Mobilities
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African Mobilities examines the possibilities for creative intervention and strategies of
interruption by way of obstructions, gaps, pauses, and logistical counterpoints that contest
sedimentation and permanent enclosure. It advances towards a more relational, multi-scalar
and multi-sited approach to an exploded space-time through which the majority of circulation
occurs on the African continent. It connects architects and other creative practitioners,
theorists, and scholars from fourteen different locations, including Johannesburg, Kampala,
Addis Ababa, Luanda, Abidjan, Lagos, New York, Dakar, Nairobi, and Praia. Together, we
hope to build a living archive of contemporary African thinking that presents alternative ways
of creating urban realities.
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#CODA - Ilze Wolff and Mpho Matsipa in conversation
#CODA - Ilze Wolff and Mpho Matsipa in conversation by African Mobilities
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#Ruptures - Olalekan Jeyifous and Wale Lawal in conversation.
Olalekan Jeyifous and Wale Lawal discuss their collaboration on Mad Horse City. They explore the concept of “Rupture” as a way of simultaneously viewing a future to come and remnants of a time that was. #speculativefutures
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#Holes - Blessing Blaai, Kiki Dörman and Solam Mkhabela in conversation
#Holes - Blessing Blaai, Kiki Dörman and Solam Mkhabela in conversation by African Mobilities
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#Borders - The Nest Collective in conversation (feat. Sunny Dolat, Jim Chuchu and Njoki Ngumi)
The Nest Collective In Conversation (represented by Jim Chuchu, Sunny Dolat, and Njoki Ngumi), considers the effects of borders on relations between and among Africans on the Continent. They discuss how art, culture, language, identity and colonial proximities have made kinships between the Continent and the black diaspora more challenging to explore. They reflect on the need for kind, honest, patient discourse by and among the kinfolk to unpack these ongoing conflicts and tensions.
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#Imagination - Jepchumba in conversation with Wale Lawal
#Imagination - Jepchumba in conversation with Wale Lawal by African Mobilities
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#Tapestry - Emanuel Admassu in conversation with Mpho Matsipa
Emanuel Admassu discusses his ongoing research project ‘Two Markets’ with Mpho Matsipa. He suggests that Kariakoo in Dar es Salaam and Merkato in Addis Ababa, offer fragmented portals into two sub-Saharan marketplaces, as sites where identities are constructed in urban marketplaces that are continually performing new interpretations of communality and mutuality in ever-shifting zoning systems.