Hello,
The A3- Archnet Collaborative is elated to invite you to the Opening Public Panel for the West Africa Architecture Biennale scheduled for Sunday, 20th February 2022 (12:00pm ET, 6:00pm WAT.) Register here: bit.ly/OpeningWABiennale
This inaugural edition of the West Africa Architecture Biennale themed Endangered Heritage is a follow up to our last held public panel which you attended on Friday 31 July 2020.
West Africa Architecture Biennale is an international biennale organized by the A3-Archnet Collaborative to foster and grow an academic and professional community around the intellectual preservation of under researched, underexposed, and underrecognized architecture in Western
Africa. The biennale serves as a forum to collect and share documentation of obscure and lesser-known modes and styles of architectural heritage as formal objects, in addition to studies of the cultural factors that contribute to their non-canonical attributes and status. Read More here: https://www.a3africa.org/west-africa-architecture-biennale
According to the curators, Baba Oladeji, and Michael Toler PhD: “This inaugural edition will be a journey of discovery through knowledge building activities such as: a public panel and workshops to investigate the issues that orchestrate what is seen; before terminating in a public exhibition that unmasks the hitherto underreported, under researched and under documented architectures in Africa”.
The purpose of this public panel is thus to address the exclusion of non-Western architectural heritage, building traditions and architects on this path to justice. Hence the topic: Architecture: The search for Identity, Justice & Continuity.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
We have assembled a stellar panel to learn of their approach to concepts of identity, justice and continuity including Aziza Chaouni, Founder of who practises between Fez and Toronto and trained at Columbia and Harvard, whose architecture and activism has seen to the restoration of the brutalist Sidi Harazem Bath Complex. Read more: https://www.azizachaouniprojects.com Aziza Chaouni | Daniels (utoronto.ca)
Mokena Makeka, Founder of Makeka Design Lab and now Principal Dalberg Advisors SA, the South African architect whose interdisciplinary work keenly addresses socio economic but also ecological justice through civic infrastructure Read more: https://dalberg.com/who-we-are/our-leadership/mokena-makeka/ and
David Aradeon, formerly Professor of Architecture and Principal of Studio4, whose 1998 inaugural lecture at the University of Lagos titled: Architecture : The Search for Identity and Continuity serves as the springboard for this conversation. Read more: https://dbpedia.org/page/David_Aradeon/
Notes:
1. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the event will be held virtually.
2. To register, visit: bit.ly/OpeningWABiennale
3. After registration has been completed a Zoom link would be sent 24 hours before the event.
About the A3-Archnet Collaborative
The A3-Archnet Collaborative is a knowledge joint venture between A3: Archives of African Architectures and Aga Khan Documentation Center of the MIT Libraries that is committed to the documentation of African architecture. In 2019, the collaborative received seed funding from MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) toward Digital Documentation of Nigeria’s Built Heritage.
Find out more on: www.a3africa.org www.archnet.org.
Kind regards,
Tobe Okonkwo.
for: A3-Archnet Collaborative.
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February 20, 2022 06:00 PMUntil
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