Seminar Archive The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies

Fashioning the Afropolitan Future: Laduma Ngxokolo in Conversation

Thursday 30 May 2024, 4.30pm - 9.00pm

This interactive evening event, featuring world-renowned fashion designer Laduma Ngxokolo, celebrates the global impact of design from the African continent in the year of the thirtieth anniversary of South African democracy.

Mapping Afropolitan Imaginaries 2

Friday, 12 April 2024, 10.00am-5.00pm

These workshops set out to explore and celebrate the ‘Afropolitan’ dimension of creativity in London life.

Mapping Afropolitan Imaginaries 1

Friday, 15 March 2024, 10am-1.00pm

This workshop invited members of the public and stakeholders to explore and celebrate the ‘Afropolitan’ dimension of creativity in London life.

London Afropolitan

Tuesday, 19 September 2023 at 5.30pm

LONDON AFROPOLITAN is one of five 'dialogues' convened as part of the research and knowledge exchange initiative.

London Afropolitan: Worlding Blackness and Diasporic Urban Imaginaries

In his “African-world-to-come”, political theorist Achille Mbembe anticipates an ‘Afropolitan future’.