African Centre for Cities | City Research Studio 2019
Workshop 10 April–15 May 2019
Ephemera from the ‘African Centre for Cities: City Research Studio’ exchange on A4’s top floor. A a top-down photograph shows a cardboard construction sitting on a concrete floor.
Workshop: ACC City Research Studio 2019, April 10, 2019–May 15, 2019. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Title African Centre for Cities | City Research Studio 2019 Dates 10 April–15 May 2019 Location Top Floor Tagline An exploration of urban-planning mechanisms through an arts-based qualitative inquiry. Credits

Coordinators:
Anna Selmeczi
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Facilitators:
Edda Sickinger
Efua Prah
Vaughn Sadie
Bhavisha Panchia
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The City Research Studio at A4 Arts Foundation extends interdisciplinary and non-traditional approaches to urban planning mechanisms for the African Centre for Cities Masters Degree (MPhil) in Southern Urbanism programme.

This programme, supported by A4's Academy, stages a series of experiments that encourage the use of arts-focused methodologies to disrupt and complicate traditional urban planning theory. The sessions include seminars, qualitative research, studio practice and the use of mixed media. Students are challenged to create and develop conceptual articulations that offer surprising insights and find unique articulations through the quantitative intentions of arts-based apparatuses.

The April–May 2019 Studio sessions explored the notions of sense-making, both as a quasi-logical framework of thinking as well as a series of visceral interventions. The suggestion that "sense-making can find new terrain in the era of decolonisation" was a key proposition.

Ephemera from the ‘African Centre for Cities: City Research Studio’ exchange on A4’s top floor that consist of a group photograph of participants standing in a street.
Workshop: ACC City Research Studio 2019, April 10, 2019–May 15, 2019. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Ephemera from the ‘African Centre for Cities: City Research Studio’ exchange on A4’s top floor. A photograph that depicts a small pile of cardboard scraps with branding on a black table cloth.
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