Following the Fish: An African Laboratory of Futures in Barcelona

Cid Moragas, Daniel, Pla, Francesc and Serrats, Eva (2023) Following the Fish: An African Laboratory of Futures in Barcelona. In, Bishop, Ryan, Simone, AbdouMaliq and Cid, Daniel (eds.) Following the Fish: Quaderns Biennale 2023. 1 ed. Barcelona. COAC, pp. 13-45.

Abstract

"The Laboratory of the Future” is the title and theme of Biennale Architettura
2023. Proposed by the exhibition’s curator, Lesley Lokko, it stems
from a desire to establish an African perspective as a platform for discussing
common global challenges. Rather than adopting the European
approach to thinking—that is, thinking about the world from one’s own
perspective—it aims to generate new imaginaries through which to project
ourselves and, accordingly, raise the social venture concept to another
level. The Following the Fish project aims to be a part of this utopia and, in
order to meet the challenge set by Biennale Architettura 2023 to identify
the places where these new practices are taking place and these new discourses
are being articulated, and with a shared desire to put the spotlight
on possible spaces of African realities in Europe, it has joined forces with
Top Manta, 1 a Senegalese community based in Barcelona: an Africa made
from afar, from the diaspora.

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