African Mobilities: THIS IS NOT A REFUGEE CAMP EXHIBITION

The regional group Munich RG München together with  Junge Akademie of TUM visits a special exhibiton at the Architekturmuseum of Pinakothek der Moderne entitled ‘African Mobilities.’ A member of the curators’ team, Tonderai Koschke, guides the group through the exhibition. Afterwards there is a scholarly discussion.

‘At a time when international borders are being violently redrawn, maintained and policed, and domestic territories are increasingly implicated with accelerated geo-political re-alignments and capitalist circuits of extraction, this exhibition seeks to explore how architecture responds to the complexity of African Mobilities – beyond the figure of the refugee. African cities are reconsidered as sites of innovation, rapid transformations, new architectural typologies, infrastructures and technologies.

African Mobilities is not concerned exclusively with the architecture of the refugee camp. Instead, it seeks to explore how cities and towns might become sites of refuge for African populations on the move, while simultaneously reckoning with the ways in which colonial geographies of extraction are enfolded within seemingly new zones of resource extraction.

The project aims to rethink the geography of African migrations and the challenges and opportunities they pose for doing architecture and urbanism differently: through an exploration of architectures at the intersection of migration, displacement and digital technology. The exhibition is conceptualized as a space, a conference, a digital publication/website and a mobile pedagogical platform that connects 14 diverse locations through workshops and master classes: Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Addis Ababa, Munich, Luanda, Abidjan, Lagos, New York, Dakar, Nairobi, London, Lubumbashi, and Praia’ (from the exhibiton website).

http://www.architekturmuseum.de/ausstellungen/african-mobilities-not-refugee-camp-exhibition/

http://www.africanmobilities.org

http://www.jungeakademie.tum.de

Sponsors | Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Förderverein des Architekturmuseums der TU München, Goethe-Institut

Contact: fk-muenchen@daad-alumni.de