Amina Lawal Agoro
Research title: Trace Elements: a curatorial approach to the reconstitution of late 19th century ‘vernacular’ architecture in Lagos, Nigeria (A Practice Based PhD Project)
Research Summary
I'm currently describing this inquiry as a process of refracting space through a Yoruba philosophical, speculative lens, grounded in curatorial praxis.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Yoruba philosophy and theory of art
Early modern architecture (West Africa)
Architecture and metaphysics
Architecture and orality
Digital archaeology
Oral history
Curatorial enquiry
Socially engaged art methods
Autoethnography and embodied research
The speculative as method
Publications
Supervisors
Grants
James McCune Smith(JMS) Scholar
Conference
Teaching
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