Exploring architecture, art and urbanism at the intersection of migration, extraction and digital technology. Curated by Mpho Matsipa @matsipa_mpho
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined September 2017
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don't miss! Current Work: Wolff Architects
Tuesday, 02/15/2022
12:00 -1:30 EST
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#architectureleague #WolffArchitects
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'Counter Clockwise: Unmapping Black Temporalities from Greenwich Mean Timelines'. Rasheedah Phillips @AfroFuturAffair
on the imposition of Western #linear #time over Black life following the abolition of slavery in the US.
#OpenAccess @TheFunambulist_
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AMO at MIT! with Ana Miljacki
Oct 14: Conversations on Care: Mpho Matsipa - presented by @MITarchitecture w/ Critical Broadcasting Lab mitsha.re/bzlT50GpxHJ
➡️ @matsipa_mpho is a #design educator, researcher, + curator at @WitsWiSER @WitsUniversity, a @HarvardGSD Loeb Fellow, and founder of @AMobilities.
#SammyBaloji featured in @ArchReview with some excerpts from our podcast!
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Dr Mpho Matsipa @matsipa_mpho, founder/chief curator of African Mobilities @AMobilities + Chancellor's Fellow (FALF) @WitsUniversity is 1 of 10 @LoebFellowship members chosen to spend 2022 in residence @Harvard Graduate School of Design @HarvardGSD.
Read: gsd.harvard.edu/2021/06/loeb…
and we're in excellent company! #Loeb2022
Announcing the incoming @LoebFellowship Class of 2022! hgsd.us/loeb22
🔹Andrea Bolnick
🔹Jordan Weber
🔹@mrwillhunter
🔹@themonicarhodes
🔹Michael Uwemedimo
🔹Veyom Bahl
🔹@Petra0720
🔹@matsipa_mpho
🔹Stephanie Hankey
🔹Moddie Turay
(shown clockwise from top left)
ALT Collage of headshots of the incoming fellows in black and white.
Good news! @matsipa_mpho, @AMobilities chief curator will be a 2022 Loeb Fellow at @HarvardGSD
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“Devotees of the Petrotopia” some images from “Liquid Geographies, Liquid Borders, our installation for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Collaboration with @WalleLawal @matsipa_mpho and Dani Kyengo O'Neill
congratulations to @AMobilities podcast guest @jgmoore on his appointment to the White House Commission on Fine Arts!
President Biden Announces His Intent to Appoint Members to the Commission on Fine Arts whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
We've been low-key exploring liquid things and sonic landscapes with the brilliant #DaniONeillKyengo,
@WalleLawal and @OJeyifous. Join us next Wed, 26 May @ the Center of the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, University of Chicago. graycenter.uchicago.edu/even…
This conversation between Achille Mbembe & @matsipa_mpho (curator of @AMobilities ) explores the dynamics of mobility, circulation and extraction in an African continent characterised by multiple & porous borders. podbean.com/ew/pb-fxc5a-1036…
@AMobilities founder, @matsipa_mpho discussing black geographies and the role of curation in re-imagining alternative futures (and archives) with Christopher Roberts (RISD)
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We are in very good company with @The_BRC_ . Thank you for the s/o Professor Mabel Wilson @NegroBuilding
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Not everyday you can disavow (sort of) what you are best known for, and start all over again (sort of)
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Tonight 👇🏾 For something slightly different I'll be talking about my practice Studio& - A Black Study
Forum Lecture by Mabel O. Wilson on Tues. Mar. 2 @ 6:30 pm ET. Through her practice, she makes visible the ways that anti-black racism shapes the built environment & the ways that blackness creates spaces of imagination, refusal and desire. Register: cutt.ly/llmJjzu
@AMobilities contributor, Professor Mabel Wilson @NegroBuilding, just co-curated a seminal exhibition at @MuseumModernArt with @sean_s_Sanderson . Opening today!
Refusal. Liberation. Imagination. Care. Knowledge. Come see the possible futures of Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. Opens today @MuseumModernArt @The_BRC_ @Sean_S_Anderson
youtu.be/NKFqFjtlj9g via @YouTube
In the March edition of @ArchReview , AMO curator Mpho Matsipa @matsipa_mpho writes a review of Lesley Lokko's expansive, trans-continental architectural pedagogy. get it!
It’s a full-fat @ArchReview March issue: 146 pages on care and collaboration, on structures of family and household, on building a more equitable profession and society 🎡 with inspiring projects in Spain, Rwanda, Paraguay and the UK bit.ly/3pWTVnP
African Mobilities contributor Professor Ikem S. Okoye to give a lecture at MIT on Sahelian Architecture in Niger.
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LISTEN : Darkness Pass 4 by Moses Molelekwa. Featured here as a conclusion to our time together: African Mobilities 2.0 is wrapping up with #CODA.
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THANK YOU to our friends, colleagues and contributors, this round was a great success.
#epilogue #coda