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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'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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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…
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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
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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
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In the absence of broad political education, through #EndSARS we are witnessing a generation radicalize itself in real-time, forming its strategies as quickly as it implements them. Our #LatestOnline via @_Nebular_ republic.com.ng/october-nove…
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‘This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.’
— Toni Morrison
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can't wait to listen to Mpho and Ilze, I'm sure this is a riveting conversation. Check out the whole series.
#CODA is a conversation on design and curation as compositional practices and the importance of a black curriculum. The series finale promises to bring a necessary nuance and the fresh perspectives required in talking about architecture from an African perspective.
Coming Soon!
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📢 #Fakugesi2020 will run live online from 20 Oct - 20 Nov with our exciting #POWERTOTHEPIXEL programme! @witsuniversity @TshimologongIT @witsDigitalArt
Expect Africa’s best creative digital workshops, talks, pitches & digital art exhibits. Pre-register: fakugesi.co.za
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AUDIO EVENT: @AMobilities' Everything Is A Seed slides into our very own @Mars_Maasai's Volume 3: a celebration of African grooves, the sultry mellow vibes we gave to jazz & electronic music, & the soulful voices upon which house was built. Find it here: mixcloud.com/thisisthenest/e…
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gorgeous music all day tomorrow!
AUDIO EVENT: In partnership with @AMobilities, we are hosting a @mixcloud audio event, ‘Everything Is A Seed’! From 12pm tomorrow (Fri 9th Oct), we will be dropping a stellar mix every 2 hrs from our DJs @Akati_, @noel_ksy, @mars_maasai & @zi_ggie! Deets: bit.ly/3iB0YiA
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NEW WORK: We’re excited to launch TWO comic books today that tell the stories of 2 eminent women in Kenyan history: Wangu wa Makeri & Mekatilili wa Menza! We also recorded a podcast on the process of making them, also touching on #StrictlySilk. Deets: bit.ly/30soN6b
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Tune in today at 13:00 EAT (12:00 CAT) to listen to Mayor Manuel de Araújo from Quelimane in Mozambique as well as @ICLEI Africa's #DRR expert.
Happening tomorrow at 13:00 EAT: Making Cities Resilient by Integrating Nature-Based Solutions into Urban Planning in Africa. 👉bit.ly/2G01xp1
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Paist & Steward, architects of Liberty Square (and Coral Gables City Hall), designed the race wall segregating the expanded housing district from the adjacent white neighborhood. Architects helped build this unjust world.
Required reading by @ChatTravieso in @PlacesJournal.
"Unlike a discriminatory law or a withheld opportunity, a race wall is solid, simple, right there at the end of the street." @ChatTravieso examines the overlooked history of race barriers in the United States. placesjournal.org/article/a-…
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My class *Global South’s Global* starts tomorrow, focusing on how global imaginations in Africa & Asia impacted architectural & urban mobilities during the Cold War.
1st position in the syllabus: @XazaarAdjame & @matsipa_mpho on African Mobilities 2.0: soundcloud.com/africanmobili…
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Although African environments are not homogenous, the spaces and traces, circuits and cleavages determining material futures are as fluid as the temporal scales that bring them into being. - Sammy Baloji speaks to @matsipa_mpho @AMobilities #Prototypes ow.ly/hYwI50B2rjY
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This will see you through some of the rougher lockdown patches
The highly anticipated keynote of the 2nd Volume of our podcast series, #Prototypes is finally here! #Extractions - Sammy Baloji in conversation with Mpho Matsipa.
LINK: linktr.ee/africanmobilities
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"How can we — if we regard the city as a tool for organising a society … for a very, very clear (colonial) purpose — how can we reuse it as a tool for the development?" Jean-Charles Tall on bio-climatic architecture ow.ly/qj2b50ATqdr @AMobilities
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#GoetheStories, our podcast series, is back! Episode 3 is about the African Mobilities (@AMobilities) digital exhibition, with our host Sound Of Xee speaking to curator Dr Mpho Matsipa about all things #Architecture in #Africa and the #diaspora: goethe.de/ins/za/en/kul/pod/…
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In 'Akurakuda', a young man and a precocious little girl with supernatural abilities yet to be triggered, experience their city’s brutality while on a quest to fish illegally its wealthier and viciously protected areas ow.ly/D2XS50AKSIt @OJeyifous @WalleLawal @AMobilities
