#Tapestry - Emanuel Admassu in conversation with Mpho Matsipa
Emanuel Admassu discusses his ongoing research project ‘Two Markets’ with Mpho Matsipa. He suggests that Kariakoo in Dar es Salaam and Merkato in Addis Ababa, offer fragmented portals into two sub-Saharan marketplaces, as sites where identities are constructed in urban marketplaces that are continually performing new interpretations of communality and mutuality in ever-shifting zoning systems.
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African Mobilities examines the possibilities for creative intervention and strategies of
interruption by way of obstructions, gaps, pauses, and logistical counterpoints that contest
sedimentation and permanent enclosure. It advances towards a more relational, multi-scalar
and multi-sited approach to an exploded space-time through which the majority of circulation
occurs on the African continent. It connects architects and other creative practitioners,
theorists, and scholars from fourteen different locations, including Johannesburg, Kampala,
Addis Ababa, Luanda, Abidjan, Lagos, New York, Dakar, Nairobi, and Praia. Together, we
hope to build a living archive of contemporary African thinking that presents alternative ways
of creating urban realities.