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African Mobilities @AMobilities

Exploring architecture, art and urbanism at the intersection of migration, extraction and digital technology. Curated by Mpho Matsipa @matsipa_mpho

Joined September 2017
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don't miss! Current Work: Wolff Architects Tuesday, 02/15/2022 12:00 -1:30 EST archleague.org/event/current… #architectureleague #WolffArchitects

Current Work: Wolff Architects - The Architectural League of New York

The founding principals of the South African practice discuss their design, research, and advocacy work.

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20 Dec 2021
'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_ bit.ly/3FdsazP
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AMO at MIT! with Ana Miljacki
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12 Oct 2021
Oct 14: Conversations on Care: Mpho Matsipa - presented by @MITarchitecture w/ Critical Broadcasting Lab mitsha.re/bzlT50GpxHJ ➡️ @matsipa_mpho is a #design educator, researcher, curator at @WitsWiSER @WitsUniversity, a @HarvardGSD Loeb Fellow, and founder of @AMobilities.
#SammyBaloji featured in @ArchReview with some excerpts from our podcast!
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Wits_News@Wits_News
10 Jun 2021
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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and we're in excellent company! #Loeb2022
Harvard GSD@HarvardGSD
9 Jun 2021
Announcing the incoming @LoebFellowship Class of 2022! hgsd.us/loeb22 🔹Andrea Bolnick 🔹Jordan Weber 🔹@mrwillhunter 🔹@themonicarhodes 🔹Michael Uwemedimo 🔹Veyom Bahl 🔹@Petra0720 🔹@matsipa_mpho 🔹Stephanie Hankey 🔹Moddie Turay (shown clockwise from top left)
Collage of headshots of the incoming fellows in black and white.

ALT Collage of headshots of the incoming fellows in black and white.
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Good news! @matsipa_mpho, @AMobilities chief curator will be a 2022 Loeb Fellow at @HarvardGSD
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Olalekan Jeyifous@OJeyifous
7 Jun 2021
“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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congratulations to @AMobilities podcast guest @jgmoore on his appointment to the White House Commission on Fine Arts!
Justin Garrett Moore@jgmoore
25 May 2021
President Biden Announces His Intent to Appoint Members to the Commission on Fine Arts whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
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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. graycenter.uchicago.edu/even…
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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. podbean.com/ew/pb-fxc5a-1036…
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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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latimes.com/entertainment-ar… We are in very good company with @The_BRC_ . Thank you for the s/o Professor Mabel Wilson @NegroBuilding

Architecture's whiteness by design can change. Mabel Wilson shows us how in MoMA show

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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AbdouMaliq Simone@XazaarAdjame
5 Mar 2021
Not everyday you can disavow (sort of) what you are best known for, and start all over again (sort of) tandfonline.com/eprint/SBGCM…

Ritornello: “People as Infrastructure”

“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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mabelowilson@NegroBuilding
2 Mar 2021
Tonight 👇🏾 For something slightly different I'll be talking about my practice Studio& - A Black Study
CarletonArchitecture@CarletonU_Arch
1 Mar 2021
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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@AMobilities contributor, Professor Mabel Wilson @NegroBuilding, just co-curated a seminal exhibition at @MuseumModernArt with @sean_s_Sanderson . Opening today!
mabelowilson@NegroBuilding
27 Feb 2021
Refusal. Liberation. Imagination. Care. Knowledge. Come see the possible futures of Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. Opens today @MuseumModernArt @The_BRC_ @Sean_S_Anderson youtu.be/NKFqFjtlj9g via @YouTube
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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!
Manon Mollard@manonmollard
25 Feb 2021
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 bit.ly/3pWTVnP
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African Mobilities contributor Professor Ikem S. Okoye to give a lecture at MIT on Sahelian Architecture in Niger. architecture.mit.edu/history…

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Link to webcast recording: web.mit.edu/webcast/architec…
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LISTEN : Darkness Pass 4 by Moses Molelekwa. Featured here as a conclusion to our time together: African Mobilities 2.0 is wrapping up with #CODA. youtube.com/watch?v=5zdLGpLT… THANK YOU to our friends, colleagues and contributors, this round was a great success. #epilogue #coda

Darkness Pass 4

Provided to YouTube by Africori LimitedDarkness Pass 4 · Moses Ta...

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