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exhibitions.



state-ments

2019
johannesburg, south africa
studio: counterspace
collaborators: prof. julia gallagher

︎view the exhibition video here.
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This project brings together politics and architecture in Africa. It draws on fieldwork in countries across the continent to explore the shape of statehood, through a mapping of its fascinating buildings.

The project asks: how does African architecture manifest statehood, and how is statehood understood in the ways citizens use, view and engage with the buildings of the state? *extracted from: https://www.africanstatearchitecture.co.uk/

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bloom

2019
johannesburg, south africa
studio: counterspace
collaborators: university of johannesburg

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BLOOM: flash, expand, sprout, flourish, open, multiply, raise, stretch, amplify, swell.

“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”

– Mao Zedong.

A set of blooming drawings, imaginaries, whispers and screams, dreams and memories – flash, emerge, synchronise, dissipate across 8 separate screens in a basement in Braamfontein. Immerse into the blossom of five years of growing ideas, fighting thoughts, daring experiments. Six Units – six flowers of language, risk, landscape, home, bigness and unmaking.


*extracted from: http://counterspace-studio.com/projects/bloom-2019-summer-show/

Image: Counterspace

conversation rooms

2019
johannesburg, south africa
studio: counterspace
collaborators: dr. huda tayob
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Conversation Rooms unfolds as a set of spaces for the prompting and recording of conversations about architecture – used in different contexts – one to one, a group discussion, a sharing circle, a solitary moment, a date.

The project is conceived through a set of purpose-designed furniture pieces and choreographic  movement design to foster collision, intimacy, facing toward and facing away – alternative forms for terms of engagement, in space.

“What does it mean to engage with the existing archive and canon of the architect-architecture-architectural? How can we rethink the canon, in a world defined by racial capitalism, profound ecological crisis and extreme violence? How do we engage with global economies of higher education and architectural institutional frameworks from the southern tip of Africa? We take the GSA’s institutional imaginary as our starting point to question the architectural canon, curriculum and institutional imaginaries”. – Except from Institutional Imaginaries press release, September 2019.

*extracted from: http://counterspace-studio.com/projects/conversation-rooms/


   

      zakiyyah haffejee.