Afropolitan Axis

The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE) at London Metropolitan University brings together architects, urbanists, artists and designers with collective research interests in environmental, social and cultural ecologies of cities. CUBE investigates relations between spatial contexts, social dynamics and sustainable urban environments, adopting methods of analysis that build upon the critical approaches to the history, theory and practice of architecture. These develop modes of understanding that are responsive to the complexity, slipperiness and interdisciplinary nature of urbanity today. Research draws upon a wide range of themes, topics and issues that emerge through productive exchanges between architecture and urban design, critical ecological studies in the visual arts, and architectural hermeneutics. CUBE provides a creative and intellectual platform for cultivating dialogues between historical, philosophical and critical perspectives on the city.

Centre for Urban & Built Ecologies, LondonMet

"Afropolitan Axis" is an event in the research and knowledge exchange series "Afropolitan Architecture"

British Pavilion of the Venice Biennale

"Afropolitan Axis" is one of three 'dialogues' convened as part of the research and knowledge exchange initiative entitled “Afropolitan Architecture: Imagining the African Urban Future by Design” on which the Africa Centre, London, has come on board as project partner. Supported by London Metropolitan University's Rescaling Fund, the project is a collaboration between the Centre for Urban &amp; Built Ecologies (CUBE) and Dalberg Advisers who have made the project possible with support in kind.Speakers: Mokena Makeka &amp; two guests: Tau Tavengwa (Founding Editor of Cityscapes Magazine, African Centre for Cities, South Africa), and Hayley Eber (Acting Dean, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York)Chaired by Prof. Matthew BaracXX063 / XX055 / XX050 / XX051 / XX005 / XX081/ XX028/ XX058

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