Selected Public Talks and Exhibitions
2025
24-26 February 2025, LANDFALL- The House We Must Build, co-curated with Thandi Loewenson. Hosted at LAPA, Johannesburg and the Johannesburg Art Gallery; with Tammy Langtry, Chrystel Oloukoï, Tinashe Mushukuvanhu, Shadreck Chirikure, Riar Rizaldi, Zen Marie, Mpumi Mcata and the Blk Jks. Supported by Re-Arc, and the Centre for Planetary Pedagogies.
12 February 2025, Roundtable: Writing Architectural History in Africa and the Americas (panellists: Felipe Hernandez, Ola Uduku, Fernando Luiz Lara, Huda Tayob).
2024
11 December 2024, Critical Studies of the Built Environment, Architectural Humanities PhD Symposium, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
7 November 2024, Creative Talk: Watery Architectures, University of Plymouth, UK.
24 October 2024, ‘Watery Archives’ at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah as part of the Salt-Kissed exhibition’s closing programme, Submerged Tales
8 May 2024 - 26 October 2024, Hayy Jameel: Salt Kissed - Of Vessels that have Sailed the Red Sea (exhibition contribution, curated by Ahmed Al-Aqra and Abed Alrahman Shabaneh), Jeddah.
17 May 2024 - 7 June 2024, Architectures of Revolt (with Gabriela Leandro Pereira), Salvador Bahia.
22 March 2024, V&A Friday Late, Installation of Archive of Forgetfulness (exhibition), London.
7 March 2024, Archival Imaginaries (invited talk), University of Cambridge
29 January – 2 February 2024, Invited keynote and workshop facilitator at Uta-Do, African Cities Workshop, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
2023
5 December 2023, Histories of Ecology Seminar, Museum of Art Sao Paulo
9 - 10 November 2023, Presenter and respondent at Critically Fit, RIOT Lab, EPFL.
16 - 17 November 2023, Keynote presented at Drawing the Urban Symposium, Mendrisio Academy of Architecture.
19 October 2023, TU Delft Public lecture, Sourcery - Architectural History Lecture Series at TU Delft: Architectural Archival Imaginaries
21 August 2023, Archive of Forgetfulness, Humanities in Africa seminar, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
28 September 2023, Invited participant, Venice Architecture Biennale carnival: The future of research into African architecture and urban history.
26 June 2023, Invited speaker at Beyond Migration symposium, with participants from South Africa, Colombia, India and Germany, hosted by the Goethe-Institut network in these cities.
24 April 2023, Invited keynote, History of Architecture and Urban Development symposium, Cornell University, USA
9 March 2023, Invited public lecture ‘Imagining Otherwise’, Architectural Association, London, UK.
2022
23 November 2022, Invited lecture, Frictions, ESALA public lecture series (with Catalina Mejia Moreno), Edinburgh, UK: Quiet Conversations, Southern Architectures.
01 October 2022, Invited keynote lecture: Friction – Towards a Post-colonial Pedagogy and Practice in Architecture (30 September – 2 October): Architecture of the Subaltern, Avani Institute of Design, Kerala, India.
7 October, Who is the Work for? Care and After Care in Representations of Trauma , JAOU Encounters, invited moderator and discussant, Tunis, Tunisia.
27 September, Archival Imaginaries (invited talk), RCA City Design MA, Royal College of Arts, London
31 May, Invited speaker, LSA Decolonial Charter, Hosted by London School of Architecture, organised by Thomas Aquilina
16- 22 May, Centering Africa Workshop at Codesria, Dakar, Senegal, Hosted by the Canadian Centre for Architecture
27 April 2022, TU Munich/ Parity Group: Race, Space & Architecture
13 April 2022, Harvard/ Africa GSD Talk (and contribution to exhibition at Gund Hall), curated by Sumayya Raji and Africa GSD team: Stories we should tell.
23 March 2022, “Race, Space and Architecture" Columbia University, with Suzanne Hall and Thandi Loewenson
2021
4 November 2021, CCNY Architecture of Care lecture series, Lecture: Archives for Forgetfulness, Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY New York.
7 October 2021, Architecture and Ethnography, guest speaker at annual symposium, Chile.
16 - 17 July 2021, Fiction Feeling Frame, Relay, Speaker in Relay, in conversation with Tabita Rezaire and Hashim Sarkis, curated and led by Thandi Loewenson, Adam Kaasa and David Burns.
19 June 2021, ABC: Architecture Beyond Capitalism- Lobby summer school, invited lecturer for the theme of ‘Capitalism’.
21 June 2021, Keynote Lecture: Architectures of Care, at Thinking, Practicing, Listening Symposium at the University of Westminster, UK.
29 April 2021, Topological Atlas Seminar at TU Delft, 29th April 2021, Joint seminar with Suzanne Hall titled Interior Claims: Migrant Life Inside Out
8 April 2021, RISD Towards a Practice of Refusal: Project Archive, Invited Speaker, Rhode Island School of Design, USA.
23 – 25 February 2021, Bartlett PHD Conference Invited Critic + International Lecture Series, Invited speaker and critic at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK.
20 February 2021, CSM MA Cities Public Lecture, Transnational Architectures of Care
2020
6 November 2020, CCA Tookit Invited Lecture, Seminar for CCA doctoral programme: Black Markets: Transnational Architectures of Care
2 April 2020, Dialogues with Dust, Online Quarantine Marathon, co-organised and facilitated by Huda Tayob, Sarah de Villiers with Claudia Morgado and Eric Wright
27 February 2020, Migration, The Right to Work and Evidence: What Counts in Violent times? Cape Town, Participant in a workshop organized by LSE, UK, Socio-economic Rights Institute of South Africa and African Centre for Cities Cape Town
16 January 2020, Architectural Association Public Talk, New Canonical Histories Series, curated by Manijeh Verghese, London, UK: Race, Space & Architecture.
15 January 2020, Invited participant in debate: What now? Architecture History Today, University of Manchester, Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG), organized by Dr.Łukasz Stanek and Dr. Kim Förster.
2019
10 September 2019, Conversation Rooms, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg (organiser and facilitator).
14 August 2019, 2019 Vivienne Japha and Len Gunnel Hicks Lecture, UCT, Public talk: Entangled Architectures of Refuge and Displacement
15 August 2019, Her Perspectives, Panelist, Cape Institute of Architects.
29 August 2019, International Lecture Series public talk, GSA, Public talk: Graduate School of Architecture
30 July 2019, Forgetting Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg respondent and publication lead.
20 February 2019, Archaeology- Drawing - Architecture, co-organised with Lesley McFadyen (Birckbeck) and speaker, London UK
2018