Live Speaking Series: The Future is African
- June 12, 2024
Live Speaking Series: The Future is African
Studio Aikin Karr envisions African futures through innovative design, merging heritage with AI-driven architecture.
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- June 12, 2024
- Written by William Chitangala
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Native Futures in 3 words: bold, dignified, beautiful.
It is becoming ever more clear that the West is losing its monopoly as manufacturer of hopes. Emergent, autochthonous Futures are ready to fill blank spaces on the spot, wherever Europe fails to engage in anticipatory betterment.
This makes way for truly global futures, of which the African are my cardinal projects.Rising Instagram shooting star AbdulAlim U-K is an AI native architect and computer science graduate student. His works receives galvanizing reviews from within the realm of architecture and design — and beyond.
His Studio Aikin Karr is ascending the ranks as a signature of parametric vernacular architecture and it is doing no less then to imagine the future of African city scapes from their native heritage, connecting African pasts and futures, materials and data, design and technology.
Rediscovering vernacular techniques of building and designing living spaces that unite social, environmental, religious aspects of building presents the very essence of sustainable design practices. Using Midjourney AI for translating rigorous design research into imaginative artifacts explains the power of Studio Aikin Karr, by which it re-centers technology to serve human ingenuity.
Repeat after me please: Indigenous Futures areBoldDignifiedBeautiful
📑 Topic: Imagining Futures — Uncovering African futures through design and architecture in the age of AI.
📅 Date: 11 April, 2024
🕕 Time: 18:00 – 19:00 GMT
🧑🏼🎓 Total Seats: 50 seats
🛒 Free EventRSVP. Link in Comments.
Native Futures in 3 words: bold, dignified, beautiful.
It is becoming ever more clear that the West is losing its monopoly as manufacturer of hopes. Emergent, autochthonous Futures are ready to fill blank spaces on the spot, wherever Europe fails to engage in anticipatory betterment.
This makes way for truly global futures, of which the African are my cardinal projects.Rising Instagram shooting star AbdulAlim U-K is an AI native architect and computer science graduate student. His works receives galvanizing reviews from within the realm of architecture and design — and beyond.
His Studio Aikin Karr is ascending the ranks as a signature of parametric vernacular architecture and it is doing no less then to imagine the future of African city scapes from their native heritage, connecting African pasts and futures, materials and data, design and technology.
Rediscovering vernacular techniques of building and designing living spaces that unite social, environmental, religious aspects of building presents the very essence of sustainable design practices. Using Midjourney AI for translating rigorous design research into imaginative artifacts explains the power of Studio Aikin Karr, by which it re-centers technology to serve human ingenuity.
Repeat after me please: Indigenous Futures areBoldDignifiedBeautiful
📑 Topic: Imagining Futures — Uncovering African futures through design and architecture in the age of AI.
📅 Date: 11 April, 2024
🕕 Time: 18:00 – 19:00 GMT
🧑🏼🎓 Total Seats: 50 seats
🛒 Free EventRSVP. Link in Comments.
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