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ARCH6826-1 / Spring 2019

African Cities

Location & Time

504 AVERY

TU + TH 11 AM - 1 PM

Session & Points

SESSION A

3 Points
Call Number

63447

This seminar takes the recent architecture exhibition African Mobilities: This is not a Refugee Camp (TU München Architecture Museum, 2018) as its point of departure, and from which it critically engages with how urbanists, scholars, and creative practitioners have conceptualized the circulation of people, ideas, aesthetics, and resources that have, and continue to produce, urban formations across Africa and the diaspora. Rather than a totalizing or comprehensive overview of all African cities, the objective is to explore a few key themes and emerging conceptual frameworks related to the forms, histories, political economies, and spatial practices across African cities, as well as to familiarize students with their diversity. Participants engage with pre-colonial urban legacies, as well as emerging (post)-colonial urban formations. Themes include gender, sexuality, and power; (im)mobility and resource extraction; decolonization, decoloniality, and Black and/or African spatial imaginaries.

Other Semesters & Sections
Course Semester Title Student Work Instructor Syllabus Requirements & Sequence Location & Time Session & Points Call No.
ARCH6826‑1 Spring 2016
AFRICAN CITIES
Mpho Matsipa

HISTORY/THEORY- NON WESTERN

412 AVERY
M & T 9 AM - 11 AM
SES A 1/19-¾
3 Points
86996
ARCH6826‑1 Spring 2015
AFRICAN CITIES
Mpho Matsipa
202 FAYERWEATHER
TU 5 PM - 7 PM
SES B= 10/26-12/4
1.5 Points
10281
ARCH6826‑1 Spring 2014
AFRICAN CITIES
412 AVERY
TH + F 9 AM -11 AM
SES B
3 Points
10281