Theme: How culture and archives are vital tools for space making and space building
Our first guest of the year is Courage Dzidula Kpodo, a Ghanaian architect pursuing a Master of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a co-founder of Postbox Ghana.
Postbox Ghana is a ‘time machine’ project that uses popular postcards of post-independence Ghana and architectural archival material within the country’s contemporary urban landscape to build new visual references and aesthetic possibilities based on collective memory.
The conversation will centre on the importance of culture, heritage, and digital archiving within the realm of built space. More specifically, the history of architecture on the continent, through the lens of a merged past, present, and future and people’s lived experiences.
We look forward to having this conversation on Thursday the 22nd of February at 18:00 EAT on Zoom.
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If you missed it, here is how it went:
Space, both understood through the form of architecture and as an archival tool, vastly shapes our cultural heritage and our present-day lived experiences.
The third edition of our public history talks between our head of research Mūthoni Mwangi, and our guest Courage Dziɖulā Kpodo they discussed the intricate scope through which space is understood, shaped, and built.