Olalekan Jeyifous
@OJeyifous
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Nigerian-born, Brooklyn-based Artist/Designer. IG: kidcadaver
Brooklyn, New York
Joined October 2011
Reimagining Cities Through A Dreamer's Eyes | Architecture & Virtual Reality @MuseumModernArt #moMA Step into the mind of .@OJeyifous a Nigerian-born, Brooklyn-based artist and architect known for crafting speculative, https://t.co/MLwRVMaLDd
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Checkout this intimate profile of my practice and studio by @MuseumModernArt supported by @UniqloUSA Rewilding The City: https://t.co/RwZYeeyURE via @YouTube
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Africa’s role in AI and technology can no longer be framed as peripheral. The continent is powering and reshaping possibilities. Our August–October 2025 issue, An African Manual for Debugging Empire, is live! Order the issue here:
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The Republic Volume 9, Number 3
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Congratulations to 42nd Annual Awards for Excellence in Design winner, “Our Democracy, Our Destiny” (Shirley Chisholm Monument) by Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous (@OJeyifous), a project of @nyculture, @NYCParks, @prospect_park, @NYC_DOT! #DesignAwards2024
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Rejuvenation of some north St. Louis park areas continues with the installation of “Enduring Currents” by Nigerian artist Olalekan Jeyifous, erected at North 14th and Biddle streets in the Carr Square neighborhood. 43 works of art join new park equipment and sports courts.
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Come throooo!
Brooklyn-based artist @Ojeyifous will take the stage this Wednesday at 5:00 pm to guide us through his unique professional trajectory and discursive practice in his lecture, “The Road Became a River: Possibilities and Parallels.” https://t.co/BQ66mBb2An
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UnMonument Brooklyn: City Refuge New activation/installation opening next week at @Weeksville with @The_BRC_ and @BLKDISCOURSE Come throoo: August 8-10, 2024 📍 Weeksville Heritage Center, 158 Buffalo Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213
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Olalekan Jeyifous' reconstituted 'Unmonument' comes to Brooklyn with the Black Reconstruction Collective | News | Archinect
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Next week, Brooklyn’s Weeksville Heritage Center begins the first of a new imaginative public art installations series from the Black Reconstruction Collective. There, the industrial ‘Unmonument’...
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Time is running out to see @OJeyifous's (16, 23) EVEN IN ARCADIA… at @art_omi. The MacDowell Fellow in architecture's exhibition imagines a 'retrofuturist urban protopia' in the Hudson Valley. On view through June 2!
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On view March 16 through June 2, 2024. Amid evolving environmental and cultural shifts, there emerges a space for thoughtful yet whimsical reflections on an increasingly challenging reality. The...
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“The old vegetable market's linear sequence of displays works very well, offering a good pace through pieces such as Olalekan Jeyifous' SIGNATURE speculative retrofuturist extravaganza…” Might be time to switch it up…haha. https://t.co/6TmiXFxYaE
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The Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023, curated by Tosin Oshinowo, focuses on beauty, impermanence and adaptability; and it has just launched in the UAE
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Final stretch…
#BiennaleArchitettura2023 “16 practices who represent a distilled ‘force majeure’ of African and Diasporic architectural production”: it’s #ForceMajeure, the section of #TheLaboratoryOfTheFuture that offers a fraction of the exploding community of African and African Diaspora
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If we can’t imagine possible climate futures, how will we create them? On Tuesday, December 5th, join ecologist and policy expert @ayanaeliza in conversation with Paola Antonelli (@curiousoctopus) and Olalekan Jeyifous (@OJeyifous). RSVP today. https://t.co/icQiBbDW2j
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On Climate Futurism and Getting Things a Little Less Wrong
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Climate Futurism suggests that the world’s civilizations must process lessons from its fraught colonialist histories to prepare for future ecological difficulties.
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“We’re playing with this idea of how to remind people of this natural and meditative practice toward rebellion and work stoppage that can also be just as scary and fearful as a River, but also as calming.” @zionestrada1 @mitchmcewen
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Zion Estrada and V. Mitch McEwen discuss their film for UNMONUMENT CHICAGO: AFTER WORK debuting at the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial.
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This Friday, October 06 Public Reception from 7-9pm @PioneerWorks_ Come Throoooo!
Curated by ecologist and climate policy expert @ayanaeliza, Climate Futurism features commissions on nature and new traditions by Erica Deeman, @DeniceFrohman, and @OJeyifous. RSVP today for the opening reception, this Friday, October 6.
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Full room at @ColumbiaGSAPP this evening for the opening of AFFIRMATIONS 👉Dean Andrés Jaque @OFFPOLINN launching the series co-curated with Bart-Jan Polman; brilliant presentation by @OJeyifous 👇
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1st stop on the Fall lecture/panel circuit! AFFIRMATION 1. Anchored Futurisms - Columbia GSAPP Mon. Sept 11 @ 6:30pm Wood Auditorium (113 Avery) @ColumbiaGSAPP
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Art historian T.J. Demos (UC Santa Cruz) and artist Olalekan Jeyifous participate in the inaugural AFFIRMATIONS series under the theme of “Anchored Futurisms.” The conversation will be followed by a...
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Columbia GSAPP announces the launch of AFFIRMATIONS: a series of discussions to affirm & interrogate how to think and redesign the built environment at the intersection of climate, ecological, societal, bodily, and technological crises and defiance:
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Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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