PERSPECTIVES FROM THE SOUTH: PLACES AND IDENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
/// Lecture: errant [as] praxis: disoriented/de-North-ed perspectives – Patti Anahory (Cape Verde)
Architect, graduated from the Boston Architectural College, and holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, USA. In 2000, she received the prestigious Rotch Traveling Scholarship, becoming the second woman to be awarded in the competition's 113-year history and the first laureate to choose to travel to Sub-Saharan Africa. From 2009 to 2012, she served as Founding Director of CIDLOT, a multidisciplinary applied research center at the University of Cape Verde, tasked with addressing territorial dynamics and local development. In 2011, she co-founded XU:Collective, an interdisciplinary art collective—now a professional studio—that proposes a critical understanding of urban dynamics, architecture, and multimedia. In 2017, she served as a Master Jury member for the first edition of the African Architecture Awards, and in 2018, she was a jury member for the curatorial competition of the 12th International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo. She was invited to serve as the regional curator for Africa at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. In 2018, she was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and currently serves as an external evaluator for the architecture program at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. She develops the project errant_praxis, a digital meeting point and an independent, active space for questioning modes of action for and from the African continent, its islands, diaspora, and imaginaries.
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