PANEL: MATRILINEAL LEGACIES IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE as part of the Earth, Memory, and the Spaces We Inhabit exhibition.
A Panel Talk Curated by Black Females in Architecture (BFA) and DēpART.
The live panel talk explores how matrilineal legacies could translate into contemporary architecture. With contributions from researchers, writers and architects who are innovating on all fronts. From new bio-material creation to documenting how women create architecture and space through maintaining existing structures.
Hosted by BFA Co-Directors Neba Sere and Selasi Setufe MBE with an open Q&A for the audience.
Featured panelists:
Amélie Esséssé, a DPLG (government-registered) architect specializing in sustainable construction (use of eco-materials), international cooperation and local development, as well as cultural heritage conservation, in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nana Biamah-Ofosu, an architect, writer and director of YAA Projects, an architecture, design and research practice dedicated to exploring counter-histories, material and diasporic culture, through making, speaking and writing architecture.
Nzinga Mboup, an architect and Co-Founder of Bio-climatic Architecture Studio, Worofila who researches construction using local materials such as raw earth.
Exhibition DeTails
Title: Earth, Memory, and the Spaces We Inhabit
Curated by: Black Females in Architecture (BFA) and DēpART
Part of: London Festival of Architecture – Voices Series
Location: NOW Gallery, 3 Gateway Pavilion, Peninsula Square, London SE10 0SQ
Times: Monday: closed, Tuesday - Friday: 10am - 6pm, Saturday: 10am - 5pm, Sunday: 11am - 4pm
A collaboration between BFA, DēpArt and Ɛdan.
Project supported by the Public Discourse program at re:arc institute for the London Festival of Architecture 2025.
Public programme supported by Foster + Partners.
Part of a series of takeovers at NOW Gallery, Greenwich Peninsula.