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Kweku Addo-Atuah

Greater New York via Accra, Ghana, United States of America
Kweku Addo-Atuah holds degrees in city planning and landscape architecture. Addo-Atuah's passions lie at the intersection of urban design, writing, design research and curatorial practice in a variety of cultural settings. These interests underpin his ongoing career development with positions and experiences in Ghana, Sri Lanka, the US and the Netherlands.

Call for ideas 2021

Constructed Liberation:


An Urbanist Conundrum

Constructed Liberation:


An Urbanist Conundrum
To examine the developmental challenges and imbalances prevalent in the Global North and Global South, and how these imbalances affect the worldwide realization of the SDGs and the Paris Agreement.
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Type of project
  • Systemic changes

To properly remind the historical legacies of colonization, with particular regard to its spatial and infrastructural implications in the Global North and Global South. The essay will examine these legacies, including redlined neighborhoods and Indigenous reservations, exploring how the partitioning of resources and investments have had a direct consequence on the stark socioeconomic trajectory and environmental protections of differing population groups.

It alerts urbanists' (architects/landscape architects/urban planners) role in upholding socio-spatially and digitally fragmented societies through planning and design policies+interventions that effectively undermine their mandate to preserve public health, safety and welfare for all. This role is exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic that highlights these socio-spatial infractions and yet, presents a wonderful opportunity to restructure the world's cities in a framework absent of neocolonial, racial and economic stratifications.

Constructed Liberation:


An Urbanist Conundrum

Constructed Liberation:


An Urbanist Conundrum
To examine the developmental challenges and imbalances prevalent in the Global North and Global South, and how these imbalances affect the worldwide realization of the SDGs and the Paris Agreement.
File under
Type of project
  • Systemic changes

To properly remind the historical legacies of colonization, with particular regard to its spatial and infrastructural implications in the Global North and Global South. The essay will examine these legacies, including redlined neighborhoods and Indigenous reservations, exploring how the partitioning of resources and investments have had a direct consequence on the stark socioeconomic trajectory and environmental protections of differing population groups.

It alerts urbanists' (architects/landscape architects/urban planners) role in upholding socio-spatially and digitally fragmented societies through planning and design policies+interventions that effectively undermine their mandate to preserve public health, safety and welfare for all. This role is exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic that highlights these socio-spatial infractions and yet, presents a wonderful opportunity to restructure the world's cities in a framework absent of neocolonial, racial and economic stratifications.


Idea by

Kweku Addo-Atuah
Greater New York via Accra, Ghana
United States of America
Kweku Addo-Atuah holds degrees in city planning and landscape architecture. Addo-Atuah's passions lie at the intersection of urban design, writing, design research and curatorial practice in a variety of cultural settings. These interests underpin his ongoing career development with positions and experiences in Ghana, Sri Lanka, the US and the Netherlands.