October 4, 2024 Façade of the Museu Tàpies intervened by the artist Serge Attukwei Clottey, with the installation “Afterlife Voyage,” from the project “Beyond the Skin,” Barcelona, Catalonia, 2024 © Museu Tàpies. Photo by: Eva Carasol, 2024. On October 4th, I participated in the seminar Architectures of the Skin: From the Body to the Street, one …
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September 19th 2024 Last Thursday, we enjoyed an afternoon celebrating the launch of Top Manta’s new collection: DESIGNED BY AN IMMIGRANT, CRAFTED BY AN ARTISAN. This new collection aims to highlight the art and culture of the Global South, showing that another way of producing and living is not only possible but essential. This initiative was …
September 18th 2024 Yesterday, we had the opportunity to talk with two architecture studios that work by creating situations and sensations: SCOB and WALK. Lesley Lokko explained in a recent text that the Zulu term for an architect is umqambi wesino, which could be translated as “magician of space”, “maker of a situation”, or “maker of …
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April 28, 2024 Taking advantage of the 70th anniversary of the film “Les statues meurent aussi,” co-directed by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais in 1953, this exhibition at the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món de Barcelona seeks to update the debate opened by the documentary at the time and to carry out a …
July 18, 2024 From July 18th to July 25th, we attended the EASA conference, which was held in Barcelona this time. As part of the research group (Tr)African(t)s, I had the opportunity to participate in the panel “Doing provenance research otherwise. From undoing colonial epistemologies to pluralising knowledge with museum collections.” This panel aimed to …
July 30, 2024 The Mies van der Rohe Foundation announces the 4th Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture on the occasion of the anniversary of Lilly Reich’s birth, with the intention of generating research and debate on modern and contemporary architecture in relation to concepts that are fundamental today, such as identity, social inclusion, …
May 19, 2024 On May 29th, we had an incredible night with the opening event of the fifth edition of Living Places. One of the highlights was the presentation of the official video for this edition, created by Rene Baptista, Tito Sánchez, and RA!Arquitectos. In the last edition of the Simon Architecture Prize, RA! received …
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May 16, 2022 On May 16, 2022, I participated in the roundtable discussion on Memory, Architecture, and Public Space as part of the TheMuseumsLab program. Together with architects Mpheti Morojele, Patti Anahory, and moderated by Luyanda Mphalwa, we discussed public space and its relationship with architecture and memory.
February 19, 2021 In this session with the historian Gustau Nerín, the researcher Anyely Marín Cisneros and anthropologist Andrés Antebi we discussed the memory of Spain’s colonial past and the role that Catalonia played in it. In recent years, interest in colonial memory has notably increased. Academic research has been joined by cultural, institutional, artistic, …