REPARATIONS WORKSHOP. AFRICAN PROPOSALS FOR DECOLONIZATION AND DECARBONIZATION

This project proposes generating a new social imaginary from an African consideration from where to project ourselves and raise the entire social adventure to another level. Today, Africa, the dawn of humanity, can provide a different perspective on social life, conceived from the idea of that which is shared and sense of balance. Our project, Following the Fish, wants to participate in this utopia and identify those places where these new practices and new discourses are articulated. And so this alliance with Top Manta. A Barcelona community from Senegal, an Africa built from afar, from the diaspora.

This Senegalese community, in the diaspora, are the bearers of values and knowledge, of shared struggles, and they are waiting for someone to give them shape. A community that, in its desire to overcome and fight, has been surrounded by the best graphic, fashion, social networks, and communication designers, as well as human rights activists and lawyers. But they have never worked closely with architects or designers of spaces. This is surprising, especially for those of us who admire their capacity to create community and a coexistence that is fair and egalitarian, despite the obvious impediments that our system forces them endure.

It is a project curated by Leve in collaboration with  Sindicat de Manters, organized by Institut Ramon Llull, with the support of the cooperativa d’arquitectes La Capell.

January – July 2023

ETSAV (Barcelona)

Following the fish (Venice)

BAU Centre Universitari d’arts i disseny (Universitat de Vic): Mònica Mestanza, Joan Maroto

Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura del Vallès (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya): Pere Fuertes, Francesc Pla, Eva Serrats

Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Reus (Universitat Rovira i Virgili):
 Manuel Bailo, Roger Miralles

Scuola di Architectura, Urbanísitca e Ingegneria della Costruzioni (Politecnico di Milano): Martina Bovo, Paola Briata, Barbara Brollo, Davide Colaci, Lola Ottolini, Gennaro Postiglione, Pierluigi Salvadeo

School of Architecture (Lund University): Jesús Mateo, Runi Weihe

Winchester School of Art (Universitiy of Southampton): Daniel Cid