African Mobilities
@AMobilities
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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
don't miss! Current Work: Wolff Architects .Tuesday, 02/15/2022.12:00 -1:30 EST.#architectureleague #WolffArchitects.
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The founding principals of the South African practice discuss their design, research, and advocacy work.
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RT @dpr_barcelona: 'Counter Clockwise: Unmapping Black Temporalities from Greenwich Mean Timelines'. Rasheedah Phillips @AfroFuturAffair.on….
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Continuing her series of texts about the weaponized concept of time in The Funambulist, Rasheedah Phillips draws relationships between the 1884 International Prime Meridian Conference and the…
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AMO at MIT! with Ana Miljacki.
Oct 14: Conversations on Care: Mpho Matsipa - presented by @MITarchitecture w/ Critical Broadcasting Lab . ➡️ @matsipa_mpho is a #design educator, researcher, + curator at @WitsWiSER @WitsUniversity, a @HarvardGSD Loeb Fellow, and founder of @AMobilities.
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#SammyBaloji featured in @ArchReview with some excerpts from our podcast!.
Photo essay: Sammy Baloji .‘I would say that copper is a medium; it is a weakness of all those economical and political and power relationships, some past, some now, and in the future. It is all about what we are doing to the Earth’
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RT @Wits_News: Dr Mpho Matsipa @matsipa_mpho, founder/chief curator of African Mobilities @AMobilities + Chancellor's Fellow (FALF) @WitsUn….
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and we're in excellent company! #Loeb2022.
Announcing the incoming @LoebFellowship Class of 2022! 🔹Andrea Bolnick.🔹Jordan Weber.🔹@mrwillhunter .🔹@themonicarhodes.🔹Michael Uwemedimo.🔹Veyom Bahl .🔹@Petra0720.🔹@matsipa_mpho.🔹Stephanie Hankey .🔹Moddie Turay .(shown clockwise from top left)
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RT @OJeyifous: “Devotees of the Petrotopia” some images from “Liquid Geographies, Liquid Borders, our installation for the 17th Internation….
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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
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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.
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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.
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@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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Wilson, co-curator of a groundbreaking new MoMA exhibition, counteracts architecture's inherent racism with ideas framed by the Black experience.
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RT @XazaarAdjame: Not everyday you can disavow (sort of) what you are best known for, and start all over again (sort of)..
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“People as Infrastructure” was a concept deployed by the author in a 2004 publication of Public Culture. This essay returns to this notion following widespread use across the urban studies comm...
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RT @NegroBuilding: Tonight 👇🏾 For something slightly different I'll be talking about my practice Studio& - A Black Study .
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@AMobilities contributor, Professor Mabel Wilson @NegroBuilding, just co-curated a seminal exhibition at @MuseumModernArt with @sean_s_Sanderson . Opening today!.
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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
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RT @Lidudumalingani: Yesterday marked a year since Santu Mofokeng passed on. A month after his passing, having sort through my grief, if on….
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Johannesburg is a city that dances on the edges of elusive, and yet somehow Santu Mofokeng managed to contain it within a frame, writes guest City Editor Lidudumalingani. Photography is a kind of...
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African Mobilities contributor Professor Ikem S. Okoye to give a lecture at MIT on Sahelian Architecture in Niger.
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