Institute of Black Imagination.
Aesthetics.
The art of living. There is fashion, and then there is style. There is function, and then there is
form. Tapping into archival intelligence and ancestral knowledge, black aesthetics exist beyond
space and time. Like one’s seat of consciousness, it is always present, past and future; it flows
like a river. Some would call it…current. Like the energy that powers our household, it is a force
full of potentially, always ready to be switched on.
A way of seeing. A way of being.
The African Futures Institute.
The African Futures Institute (AFI), headquartered in Accra, Ghana, is a new venture in architectural education that aims to offer a radically different and innovative educational experience to Ghanaian, African and international students, as well as provide an important platform for conversations, exhibitions and publications on architecture and related disciplines.
Salooni.
Salooni is a multidisciplinary art project that posits black hair practices as systems of knowledge through which culture and survivalist strategies are passed from generation to generation. What practices of self-care and love have been replicated and shared by Black girls and women in the styling and braiding of their hair? What collective and individual traumas have we endured and perpetuated as a result of rejection from Western hegemonic cultures, and in our own attempts to conform and survive a world in which beauty standards are dictated by Caucasian culture? Created by four Ugandan women, through short film, live art performances, theatre and photography and the work itself.
