When: Thursday, 16th of October 2025 at 6pm (BST)
Where: M416 (Robin Evans Room), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online
The book presents a compendium of essays, conversations and paradigmatic projects conceived as an adaptive platform on synthetic-vernacular architecture in Africa and its potential role as cultural driver for global scenarios.
Based on almost ten years of applied research of Dr Paolo Cascone and his CODESIGNLAB practice in Africa, the book documents the potential role of indigenous and spontaneous architecture in the contemporary debate on sustainability in architectural design. How to respond to climatic changes reconciling nature with tekné? What is the social role of technology?
Paola Cascone and Maddalena Laddaga will make a short presentation of their key projects, which will be followed by a wider discussion on teaching and researching in architecture for global challenges and new vernacular approaches to ecological design. The panel will include Alice Odeke, Urna Sodnomjamts, Ripin Kalra and Bongani Muchemwa.
For details please contact Dr Will McLean – w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk