#Transmissions - Jean-Charles Tall in conversation with Mpho Matsipa

Mamadou Jean-Charles Tall, is a Dakar-based co- director of Tall Architectes et Associés, and has been a member of Dak’Art Biennale, he has served as president of the board of the Collège Universitaire d’Architecture de Dakar, an institution that he co-founded, and where he teaches and is director of the Masters of Architecture programme. Over several decades, he has cultivated an enduring concern for the development of an approach to bio-climatic architecture that is embedded in the transmission of sophisticated African knowledge systems. I sat with Jean Charles Tall virtually, to discuss his ongoing research on bio-climatic architecture and his African Mobilities project that surveyed diverse architectural styles and urban patterns in contemporary Senegal in Migrations and the Image of Space in Senegal (2018)

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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.