School of Social and Political Science

Description

Speaker: Ola Uduku, University of Liverpool

Venue: 50 George Square, Room G06

Abstract:
Architecture by its nature is intricately involved in infrastructure provision related to housing, education and other development needs. Our design of this architecture differs: in the West, social architecture has a long illustrious history, with exemplar projects to be found throughout Europe, and increasingly Latin America. In most of the global ‘south’, however, architecture is more binary; either for the rich or for the poor. Much of this social infrastructure provision is given as ‘aid’, normally via various forms of international NGO and national assistance. In this lecture I hope to explore our understanding of ‘aid’, in its literal form and within a more philosophical-contextual format. It seeks to question ideas and views of aid and how this particularly impacts on design decisions and projects in the global south, and specifically Africa in the 2020s.