3. Part 1: Decoloniality + African Metropolis - How we can build and preserve our African built environments
This episode features Kuukuwa Manful + Tuliza Sindi and Miliswa Ndziba from room19isaFactory.
Kuukuwa Manful is a trained architect and researcher who creates, studies and documents architecture in Africa. She is a visiting post-doctoral scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at the University of Stanford, and a post-doctoral researcher on the African State Architecture Project at SOAS, University of London.
Through her Accra Archive project, she has digitised a collection of endangered historical architectural material pertaining to architecture, construction, and urban regulation in Ghana. She also curates adansisɛm - an architecture collective that documents Ghanaian architecture theory, research and practice, and co-founded and runs sociarchi - a social architectural enterprise that advocates for, and provides architectural services to people who ordinarily cannot afford architects.
room19isaFactory. was founded in 2022 by Tshwanelo Kubayi, Tuki Mbalo, Thandeka Mnguni, Miliswa Ndziba, and their lecturer-turned-colleague, Tuliza Sindi - founder of Unit 19 at the Graduate School of Architecture (GSA). room19isaFactory. is a cross-disciplinary architecture collective that approaches existing spatial philosophies as metaphorical ground conditions that render linear constructions of time (or the Western chronopolitical imagination) tautological. Through culture-making, their practice speculates about liberating those grounds from their chronopolitical captivity.
Music by Is Seven A Gang
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