Under the theme of Transformative Practices, the conference will critically engage with the status quo, asking how things could be done differently and what policy-makers and practitioners could learn from these reflections.

Last few days to submit an abstract to the panel on displacement urbanism that I'm convening with Ayham Dalal. Submissions close 21 April!

Do you work on digital platforms in Africa? Do you need time and support to write? 10 days yet to apply! Please join us for these writing workshops

African Centre for Cities

We're excited to announce the UK-Kenya architectural practitioners selected to represent the UK at
La Biennale di Venezia 2025 👉🏽venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/british-pavili……

sevra davis Tamsie Thomson Tom Dyckhoff GoDown Arts Centre muyiwa oki Grace Choi Huda Tayob

📷Taran Wilkhu ©British Council

A wonderful edition, and very happy to have my review in the Book of Books included- Reparations as reconstruction - bringing together Olufemi Taiwo's Reconsidering Reparations in conversation with Shenaz Patel's Silence of the Chagos

With brilliant Liza Rose Cirolia andrea pollio
Call Open: 'How Write About Platformization from Africa: A Workshop'. 15-17 July 2024
At the University of Cape Town.
Travel grants available
To apply: tinyurl.com/5at38z8m

Application Deadline: 25 April 2024.
#Digital #platform #Africa

APPLY NOW: The ACC, through the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), has 5 In-Region Scholarships for students from Sub-Saharan Africa who enrol for the 2025 MPhil Southern Urbanism programme UCT

africancentreforcities.net/mphil-southern…

Back in September, the twenty participants of Collage Comparison used materials from the Archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement held at the Bodleian Libraries to produce the collages that make up this chapbook—now digitally available! Visit here: yumpu.com/s/SRZ9JNyWdGat…

A wonderful opportunity to share the Archive of Forgetfulness, talk and write together about archival care, infrastructure and African cities at UTA-Do African Cities Workshop in Dar es Salaam a few weeks ago

Looking forward to this exciting programme starting tomorrow!

So good to see the Archive of Forgetfulness Archive of Forgetfulness in this book selection!

'the UN General Assembly recognized the 1982 Israeli-sponsored massacre of Palestinian refugees in Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon as an act of genocide. This history is part of the backdrop for South Africa’s legal intervention.'

dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

My text Seeing Genocide @bostonreview today
bostonreview.net/articles/seein…

#OpenCall : 2025 #BritishPavilion exhibition - 1 month left to apply!

Open to architectural practitioners from the UK, working with counterparts in or from Kenya.

Read more, including a new Clarification Questions document: bit.ly/3sQoKlW

La Biennale di Venezia #VeniceBiennale

“Together we will not allow this to happen. Never again is now.” -Representative from the Palestinian Mission speaking to the United Nations

We are grateful to be mentioned along side IfNotNow🔥✡️ and Na'amod in the struggle for Palestinian freedom and liberation.

'the most detailed, comprehensive, account of dispossession, degradation, and death ever produced in world history, has achieved for Palestinians essentially, fundamentally, nothing'

Esmat Elhalaby Esmat Elhalaby
publicbooks.org/our-siege-is-l…

Why Must Palestinians Audition for Your Empathy? —Hala Alyan

“it is worth asking yourself which brutalization is acceptable to you, even quietly, even subconsciously, and which is not.”

Unpaywalled link nytimes.com/2023/10/25/opi…

A few snaps from this weekend’s Collage Comparison symposium with Bodleian Libraries. Many hands hard at work cutting, pasting, printing, and folding. 📁✂️🖇