Black urbanism

1 podcasts

23.04.2026

64 MIN

English

In this podcast, architect, curator, and thinker Mpho Matsipa talks about Black urbanism, African mobilities, the uneasy legacies of modernism, racialized ecologies, and the extraction of Black time through regimes of waiting and migration. We also think with Mpho’s reading of Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe’s 'distributed university', where museums, salons, and independent art spaces and networks become infrastructures for redistributing knowledge and resources beyond elite institutions. Above all, we return to the salon –as a space of intimacy, care, and beauty– as an infrastructure for imagining other futures.

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