Annual Cluster Conference "Spatialities": Book Conversation
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As part of the Cluster's Annual Conference on "Spatialities" Christine Vogt-Williams and Epifania Amoo-Adare talked about Amoo-Adare's book "Spatial Literacy - Contemporary Asante Women's Place-Making".
A central premise informing the concept of Critical Spatial Literacy is the decryption of specific codes found in the built environment so as to understand how these affect people’s social lives, cultural practices and sense of place. The conversation addresses how Critical Spatial Literacy might work as a conceptual frame to explore how the social and economic lives of women of (continental and diasporic) African descent have been constituted, situated and enacted in contemporary spatialities. One salient point concerns how the concept might allow for African feminist and womanist responses to uneven development.
Epifania Amoo-Adare is an independent scholar, who is interested in (un)thinking science through art and other radical approaches. She is currently based in Accra, where she is seeding Biraa Creative Initiative (BCI). Epifania has a Ph.D. in Education from UCLA and is a RIBA Part II qualified architect. Born in London, and raised in Nairobi, Cape Coast and Accra, Epifania also has over 25 years of experience working in various flelds, including education and international development, within locations like Afghanistan, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Qatar, the United Kingdom and the United States. Her post-disciplinary interests span diverse topics such as creative writing, critical pedagogy, decolonial thinking, epistemology, feminism(s), spirituality, spatial theories, and urbanization.
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- Annual Cluster Conference "Spatialities": Book Conversation
- Language
- English
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- Conference Spatilities 2023
- Date
- January 26, 2024
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- okay good morning thank you so much for coming to this particular book conversation uh it concerns um a specific work by our GH G Ghan feminist scholar architect and artist Dr epia AMU adari uh the title of the book is spatial literacy which is published in 200 13 with Paul grave McMillan so we are in 2023 this is the 10th anniversary of this particular book and I'm extremely pleased to be able to welcome Dr epifania AMU adari the author of this work Dr Amo Adar is an independent scholar who is interested in unthinking science through ART and other radical approaches she's currently based in Acra where she's seeding bir creative initiative known as BCI epifania has a PhD in education from UCLA and is an R part two qualified architect I do not know what that means but I'm sure it concerns her professional qualifications born in London and raised in Nairobi Cape coast and Acra epifania also has over 25 years of experience working in various Fields including education and International Development M within locations like Afghanistan Georgia Germany Ghana Qatar the United Kingdom and the United States a post-disciplinary interest in Span diverse topics such as creative writing critical pedagogy decolonial thinking epistemology feminisms spirituality spatial Theory and urbanization so without any further Ado I would like to start with our conversation we are in a time when there is a grave and growing need for critical spatial literacy although we as inhabitants of physical space and its Associated ideological constructs for example Global Community Nation neighborhood home Etc are most probably overwhelmed by the constant production and consumption of the built environment we are not necessarily literate in the political language of space and how it affects power struggles and daily social practice and identity construction I begin with this py quote from epiphania introduction to her book and I ask epifania why is critical spatial literacy important in your view… Read the full text about 8,103 words
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