Earlier this month (September 2018), I participated in a thought-provoking panel engaging the ‘margins’ in the research process. The panel was part of the two-day workshop ‘Speculative Infrastructures and Cities-in-the-Making,’ which was organized by Jon Silver and Paula Meth at the University of Sheffield and supported by Urban Geography journal and the University of Sheffield’s… Continue reading ‘Speculative infrastructures’ at the urban margins
Category: PhD Research
Amplifying Local Voices on Ghana’s Built Environment: Accra Architecture Writing Workshop
amplify: verb. to make larger, greater, or stronger; to enlarge; extend; to expand in stating or describing, as by details or illustrations; to clarify by expanding….to discourse at length… For three days in early July 2018, I worked with undergraduate, masters, and PhD students as one of three workshop tutors in the Accra Architecture Writing Workshop,… Continue reading Amplifying Local Voices on Ghana’s Built Environment: Accra Architecture Writing Workshop
Situating Spatial Appropriation within Decolonial & Feminist Frameworks: Thinking through Research Methodology
In September 2017, I began PhD studies at the Sheffield School of Architecture (SSoA) as part of a long desire to engage in research that examines spatial appropriation in two West African cities – Accra, Ghana and Lagos, Nigeria – with the aim of documenting and theorising about space from the local, southern perspectives of… Continue reading Situating Spatial Appropriation within Decolonial & Feminist Frameworks: Thinking through Research Methodology