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Menna Agha, Mário Barros, Diogo Henriques

Aalborg, Denmark
Mena Agha is a Nubian Egyptian architect based in Belgium, her work focuses on architecture, displacement, gender, and territoriality. Mário Barros is an African-Portuguese designer and educator, expatriate in Vietnam and now in Denmark, researching design-driven innovation and sustainability in design. Diogo Henriques is a Portuguese architect and researcher, previously living in Europe and Asia, and currently in the UK, researching urban futures, international networks and participation.

Call for ideas 2021

Afro-Futures in European Enclaves


Stories of Care Labor and its Space Making Powers

Afro-Futures in European Enclaves


Stories of Care Labor and its Space Making Powers
A book collection mapping the role of care labor in the Afropolitan imprint within European cities.
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  • New alliances

What about an African migrant, diasporic, or displaced person who ended up in European cities. What about their place? The answer here is Care. Diasporic cultures of African descent in Europe activate the African paradigm of emotions as a capital; care labor drives architecture. In this collection, we declare our appreciation of such labor by recognizing its spatial products and telling their stories.

What about plastic chairs by a Congolese shop in Antwerp? They are arranged in a manner that embraces black bodies. How about the Morrocan mother in Bonn who zones the neighborhood by organizing where her offspring live, benefiting from her care labor. How about black people protesting systemic racism in Bristol, their toppling off racist status and statues, and reshaping public spaces.

This proposal is a call for stories, past, present, and future imaginations: visual and textual entries concerned with spaces and objects that rely on care labor and represent Afro-European.



Afro-Futures in European Enclaves


Stories of Care Labor and its Space Making Powers

Afro-Futures in European Enclaves


Stories of Care Labor and its Space Making Powers
A book collection mapping the role of care labor in the Afropolitan imprint within European cities.
File under
Type of project
  • New alliances

What about an African migrant, diasporic, or displaced person who ended up in European cities. What about their place? The answer here is Care. Diasporic cultures of African descent in Europe activate the African paradigm of emotions as a capital; care labor drives architecture. In this collection, we declare our appreciation of such labor by recognizing its spatial products and telling their stories.

What about plastic chairs by a Congolese shop in Antwerp? They are arranged in a manner that embraces black bodies. How about the Morrocan mother in Bonn who zones the neighborhood by organizing where her offspring live, benefiting from her care labor. How about black people protesting systemic racism in Bristol, their toppling off racist status and statues, and reshaping public spaces.

This proposal is a call for stories, past, present, and future imaginations: visual and textual entries concerned with spaces and objects that rely on care labor and represent Afro-European.




Idea by

Menna Agha, Mário Barros, Diogo Henriques
Aalborg
Denmark
Mena Agha is a Nubian Egyptian architect based in Belgium, her work focuses on architecture, displacement, gender, and territoriality. Mário Barros is an African-Portuguese designer and educator, expatriate in Vietnam and now in Denmark, researching design-driven innovation and sustainability in design. Diogo Henriques is a Portuguese architect and researcher, previously living in Europe and Asia, and currently in the UK, researching urban futures, international networks and participation.