CONCRETE LIMBO

3rd October 2020 | Online Panel Discussion

Invited Panelist reflecting on “how emergent forms of tactical urbanism can respond to alterations in the nature of public space, housing, mobility, spatial justice and other major issues in near-future city life”

Panel Synopsis:

“Utopian and dystopian fantasies of the future have long been subjects of Investigation in both the art and design communities. In the last decades a spatial turn seems to have haunted the imagination of developers engaging with the infrastructural development of emerging metropolises. This is the case for Accra, Ghana. Properties in West African cities are transitioning from traditional community land settlements into real estate objects. In the capital city of Accra, 30% of initiated building projects end up uncompleted and pollution, overpopulation and environmental issues have become the reality of a speculative urbanisation. The curators of Limbo Accra suggest a playful inversion of spaces that are otherwise separated by notions of urban design, putting forward a new, ambitious model for responding to the commercial land practices, by re- envisioning a new metropolitan life through the production of site-responsive installations in ‘concrete skeletons’.”