This database is a summary of the proliferation of speculative new town projects around major cities throughout the African continent. These ongoing proposals—motivated by familiar neoliberal development policies and aspirations of Global City identities—threaten both the environmental and socioeconomic capacity of their destination polities.
This studio riffs on the methods of design speculation elaborated by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby that endeavor to imagine alternate urban futures disconnected from present-day ideas of urban form, economy, and society. Utilizing the broad lens of climate change, this studio asks students to develop design fictions around the occupation of urban public space circa 2050 in one of nine mega-cities on the African continent.
Apart from focusing on what is proposed, we also need a new vision of what the African settlement futures could be. This project provides us a chance to build a strong network of scholars, educators, architects, urban designers, and landscape architects.
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This project is curated by Christopher Marcinkoski and Javier Arpa.
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