Africa Alliance
Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning
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Who we are
Partners
Africa Alliance is a hub of urban scholars, practitioners, and educators whose work relates to the African continent as both a geographical and an epistemic location. We study buildings, cities, and landscapes on the continent and the many ways in which urbanization processes in Africa relate to other territories. We see Africa as a vantage point to rethink and respond to today’s unprecedented challenges of urbanization: social, economic, and environmental.
UMAPS
African Studies Center
TV Lab
Unilever Archives
Accra Metropolitan Assembly
Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology, Ghana
Topics of Focus
Archival Justice
How to uncover and preserve primary material on African architecture, and make it available to scholars and local communities
Unformalization
Moving beyond the dominant formal/informal dichotomy through which the built environment is typically studied
Land Imaginaries
How to rethink architecture in Africa based on land, its economies, and ecologies
Oblique Histories
How Africa’s exchanges beyond Western Europe and North America are resources of conceptual and design innovations
Visual Culture/Imagination/Technologies
The Sociopolitics of the Built Environment
Examining social class, belonging, and exclusion in and through architecture and urbanism in Africa.
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