Join us on Thursday 17 October 2024 to celebrate Black Females in Architecture's and The London School of Architecture's partnership launch and mentoring programme!
A 1 day workshop offering participants an introduction into building with earthen materials through presentations, demonstrations and interactive activities. Focusing specifically on rammed earth as a construction method, participants will gain technical knowledge of architectural applications of rammed earth as a building material as well as a material used to produce everyday objects.
‘Sankofa’ is a principle derived from the Akan people of Ghana; an understanding that one should remember the past to make positive progress in the future. Join us for an evening celebrating BFA’s journey so far and hearing more about where we are headed next.
Join us this October for the V&A Friday Late which will bring together some of the artists, architects and creative practitioners involved in this year's Venice Architecture Biennale.
The CV & Portfolio Skills Workshop is an opportunity for students and recent graduates to have a 1-to-1 review of their portfolios with an experienced mentor (‘surgeries’) and receive advice on applying for work in practice.
Join us for our BFA Meet-Up this Summer.
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Join us on Thursday 17 October 2024 to celebrate Black Females in Architecture's and The London School of Architecture's partnership launch and mentoring programme!
A 1 day workshop offering participants an introduction into building with earthen materials through presentations, demonstrations and interactive activities. Focusing specifically on rammed earth as a construction method, participants will gain technical knowledge of architectural applications of rammed earth as a building material as well as a material used to produce everyday objects.
‘Sankofa’ is a principle derived from the Akan people of Ghana; an understanding that one should remember the past to make positive progress in the future. Join us for an evening celebrating BFA’s journey so far and hearing more about where we are headed next.
Join us this October for the V&A Friday Late which will bring together some of the artists, architects and creative practitioners involved in this year's Venice Architecture Biennale.
The CV & Portfolio Skills Workshop is an opportunity for students and recent graduates to have a 1-to-1 review of their portfolios with an experienced mentor (‘surgeries’) and receive advice on applying for work in practice.
Join us for our BFA Meet-Up this Summer.
Join us for our BFA Member Meet-Up this Spring.
Black Females in Architecture (BFA) in collaboration with Soho House presents an evening with Tosin Oshinowo & Jayden Ali.
This event is BFA’s first non architectural partnership and is exclusively for BFA and Soho House members only. If you are a BFA member grab your tickets via our Eventbrite. if you are a Soho House member tickets have been made available via the Soho House app.
The conversation will be hosted by BFA and will centre around designers’ roles in shaping and defining culture across different disciplines including art, fashion, furniture, spatial & building design. Through this event, BFA seeks to create a space to broaden conversations beyond the silos of singular creative fields and to acknowledge opportunities for collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches.
BFA aims to amplify the voice and works of black practitioners within the industry by bringing incredibly talented people such as Tosin Oshinowo and Jayden Ali to the forefront of conversations pertaining to design and the built environment
Book now via our Eventbrite.
Following the success of our first film night, BFA is glad to announce that we will be hosting our second movie get-together at the Kings Cross Everyman Cinema to watch the highly anticipated ‘Black Panther II: Wakanda Forever’.
Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke), Okoye (Danai Gurira) and the Dora Milaje (including Florence Kasumba), fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.
Join us for an evening at the cinema to watch the second installment epic of Black Panther story played by an outstanding black cast (we love to see it)!
Tickets per person: £19.60 - available to buy now via our shop. These tickets are limited so don’t delay!
We look forward to seeing you there at our second BFA Film Night.
It’s now Autumn, the weather is colder, the nights are drawing in and it’s also Black History Month! In celebration of Black History Month this year, BFA is hosting a film night get-together at the Canary Wharf Everyman Cinema to watch highly acclaimed ‘The Woman King’.
Starring Viola Davis, Lashana Lynch and Thuso Mbedu, The Woman King is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, The Woman King follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca (Oscar®-winner Viola Davis) as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life. However some things are worth fighting for….
Join us for a chilled cosy evening at the cinema watching an epic story played by an outstanding black cast (we love to see it)!
Tickets per person: £19.60 - available to buy now via our shop. These tickets are limited so don’t delay!
We look forward to seeing you there at our first BFA Film Night.
Our very first summer party ‘Black In Architecture’ was a special evening dedicated to celebrating and inspiring black built environment professionals. Co-hosted by Black Females In Architecture in partnership with Mace Architect Muyiwa Oki
Click HERE for event photos and individual headshots
Join us for our first IRL BFA Member Meet-Up this Spring.
Join us to hear from the Black Women within Matrix Feminist Design Co-Operative.
Join our Co-Directors Akua Danso and Selasi Setufe MBE this IWD 2022 to celebrate BFA’s Achievements.
Join our co-director Neba Sere for the first of this years AA School’s New Models lectures: A New Model for Race and Gender Equity.
Join us for an event and exhibition about vernacular architecture, embodied knowledge in communities, black muslim spaces & experiences and historic & contemporary houses of wisdom
BFA in collaboration with Rich Mix is curating a walk and workshop on Sunday 27 June 2021 for families and young people aged between 6-11 years old to explore Architecture and Design.
Join us for Instagram live conversations hosted by choreographer and artist-scholar Dr Adesola Akinleye with BFA Members.
The BFA Dance Dialogues is an event series which was developed in collaboration with choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye.
To celebrate the book Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue), live conversations between Adesola and a series of BFA members will explore the main themes of the book in correlation to BFA member's work. BFA members include Ayanna Blair-Ford, Sarah Akigbogun, Seyi Adelekun & Umi Lovecraft BP.
The last one up is a conversation between Adesola and Umi on Thursday 24 June at 7pm.
They’ll discuss decolonising space-making and knowledge exchange.
Umi Lovecraft BP
Architectural Designer, Creative Strategist & Activist
Umi Lovecraft BP is a (British Dominican) architecturally trained designer, creative strategist, activist and the Founding Director of insider-outsider, a non-profit multidisciplinary design consultancy made up of architects, designers and social entrepreneurs on a mission to improve people’s lives through design: architecture as activism. She also advises the Design Council in Place Shaping & Community Led Design as a Design Associate, is co-founder/co-chair of decosm [decolonising] space-making, and an Associate Lecturer on the Central Saint Martins MArch programme. She has more than a decade of experience specialising in human[ity] and community centred design, working across complex social contexts in the UK and the Global South. Undertaking research and design projects that contribute to improving people’s lives, particularly those who are traditionally marginalised by environmental, social and spatial injustices. Umi champions inclusive design that moves from participation to sharing power, to design spaces where innovation, productivity, and creativity can all thrive.
Adesola Akinleye
Choreographer, Artist-scholar
Dr. Adesola Akinleye is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar and choreographer.
She began her career as a dancer at the Dance Theatre of Harlem (USA) later working in UK Companies such as Green Candle, and Carol Straker Dance Co.. Over the past twenty years she has created dance works ranging from live performance that is often site-specific and involves a cross-section of the community to dance films, installations and texts. Her work is characterized by an interest in voicing people’s lived-experiences in Places through creative moving portraiture. A key aspect of her process is the artistry of opening creative practices to everyone from ballerinas to women in low wage employment to performance for young audiences. Adesola is a Research Fellow with Theatrum Mundi, visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and Research Affiliate and visiting artist at MIT.
Not to worry if you can’t make it to the live event. The video will be available on our instagram. #BFADanceDialogues
Join us for Instagram live conversations hosted by choreographer and artist-scholar Dr Adesola Akinleye with BFA Members.
The BFA Dance Dialogues is an event series which was developed in collaboration with choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye.
To celebrate the book Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue), live conversations between Adesola and a series of BFA members will explore the main themes of the book in correlation to BFA member's work. BFA members include Ayanna Blair-Ford, Sarah Akigbogun, Seyi Adelekun & Umi Lovecraft BP.
The third one up is a conversation between Adesola and Sarah on Tuesday 22 June at 7pm.
They’ll discuss claiming space within the industry as a black woman, improvisation and the concepts of freedom in relation to the body and how black women feel in spaces.
Sarah Akigbogun
Multidisciplinary Practitioner including Architect & Filmmaker
Sarah Akigbogun is a (British, West African) multidisciplinary practitioner; an Architect and Filmmaker, and the current Vice Chair of Women in Architecture UK. Sarah is founder of Studio Aki London and theatre collective Appropri8, which combine art, design, performance and research to create interventions in the built environment, with a particular interest in reactivating dead urban spaces.
In 2017 Sarah directed the film She Draws : She Builds which collates the voices of 15 female
architects. Trained as an architect and engineer, Sarah has worked at Alsop Architects and Foster and Partners. Sarah also holds an MA in Acting from Central St Martins. She is currently a tutor at Canterbury School of Architecture.
Adesola Akinleye
Choreographer, Artist-scholar
Dr. Adesola Akinleye is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar and choreographer.
She began her career as a dancer at the Dance Theatre of Harlem (USA) later working in UK Companies such as Green Candle, and Carol Straker Dance Co.. Over the past twenty years she has created dance works ranging from live performance that is often site-specific and involves a cross-section of the community to dance films, installations and texts. Her work is characterized by an interest in voicing people’s lived-experiences in Places through creative moving portraiture. A key aspect of her process is the artistry of opening creative practices to everyone from ballerinas to women in low wage employment to performance for young audiences. Adesola is a Research Fellow with Theatrum Mundi, visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and Research Affiliate and visiting artist at MIT.
Not to worry if you can’t make it to the live event. The video will be available on our instagram. #BFADanceDialogues
Join us for Instagram live conversations hosted by choreographer and artist-scholar Dr Adesola Akinleye with BFA Members.
The BFA Dance Dialogues is an event series which was developed in collaboration with choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye.
To celebrate the book Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue), live conversations between Adesola and a series of BFA members will explore the main themes of the book in correlation to BFA member's work. BFA members include Ayanna Blair-Ford, Sarah Akigbogun, Seyi Adelekun & Umi Lovecraft BP.
The second one up is a conversation between Adesola and Seyi on Thursday 17 June at 7pm.
They’ll discuss being in transit, being dyslexic and neurodiversity as well as movement as a way to express yourself.
Seyi Adelekun
Artist, Architectural Designer & Creative Practitioner
Seyi Adelekun is an artist, architectural designer and creative practitioner based in London.
Seyi’s practice focuses on enhancing the social infrastructures, promoting environmental stewardship and regenerative circular economies through community co-designed placemaking. She currently works at the award-winning practice Assemble, collectively holding the role as artist-in-residence to develop a social centre for housing rights and land reform in Spitalfields. Seyi is a Black Females in Architecture Advocate who cares about designing inclusive spaces that address the inequalities prohibiting marginalised people from accessing spaces.
Adesola Akinleye
Choreographer, Artist-scholar
Dr. Adesola Akinleye is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar and choreographer.
She began her career as a dancer at the Dance Theatre of Harlem (USA) later working in UK Companies such as Green Candle, and Carol Straker Dance Co.. Over the past twenty years she has created dance works ranging from live performance that is often site-specific and involves a cross-section of the community to dance films, installations and texts. Her work is characterized by an interest in voicing people’s lived-experiences in Places through creative moving portraiture. A key aspect of her process is the artistry of opening creative practices to everyone from ballerinas to women in low wage employment to performance for young audiences. Adesola is a Research Fellow with Theatrum Mundi, visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and Research Affiliate and visiting artist at MIT.
Not to worry if you can’t make it to the live event. The video will be available on our instagram. #BFADanceDialogues
Are you interested in Architecture, Space and Performance? Join us for IGTV Live Events this June with Dr. Adesola Akinleye who’ll have a series of incredible conversations with BFA members. Topics include using movement as a black woman to claim space or express yourself, being in transit, making black spaces or decolonial spaces and more!
Join us for Instagram live conversations hosted by choreographer and artist-scholar Dr Adesola Akinleye with BFA Members.
The BFA Dance Dialogues is an event series which was developed in collaboration with choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye.
To celebrate the book Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue), live conversations between Adesola and a series of BFA members will explore the main themes of the book in correlation to BFA member's work. BFA members include Ayanna Blair-Ford, Sarah Akigbogun, Seyi Adelekun & Umi Lovecraft BP.
First up is a conversation between Adesola and Ayanna on Tuesday 15 June at 7pm.
They’ll discuss making black spaces such as the black stage, black joy, the geography of black women and black-ness, the invisible man, black-out vs light-out and Blackness as safe space.
Ayanna Blair-Ford
Artist, Architectural Designer, Filmmaker & Budding Production Designer
Ayanna Blair-Ford is a (British Caribbean - Jamaican and Guyanese) Artist, Part II Architectural Designer, Filmmaker and budding production designer, with a passion for narrative-led design. Her work centers around themes of identity, diaspora and the representation of Black narratives through space, stage and film. Graduating from the Royal College of Art this academic year, her thesis project Black On Stage presents a new performance methodology cartographic of the Caribbean diaspora. Displaying an innovative and forward-thinking approach to the role of the architect, Ayanna was awarded the RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarship this academic year.
Ayanna holds a BA (Hons) in Architecture from Oxford Brookes University, where she is currently tutoring as an Associate Lecturer. From graduating from Oxford Brookes, Ayanna worked at Hawkins\Brown as an Architectural Assistant and then went on to join 59 Productions as an Architectural Assistant and Junior spatial designer. In 2019 Ayanna was part of the winning design team for the ‘Mile18 Marker’ competition for the London Marathon, in association with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust ( now named Blueprint for all) and Virgin Money. Over the last year, Ayanna has also been working as an Assistant Art Director in Film, TV and music videos, assisting production designers such as Christopher Melgram and Lucie Red.
Adesola Akinleye
Choreographer, Artist-scholar
Dr. Adesola Akinleye is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar and choreographer.
She began her career as a dancer at the Dance Theatre of Harlem (USA) later working in UK Companies such as Green Candle, and Carol Straker Dance Co.. Over the past twenty years she has created dance works ranging from live performance that is often site-specific and involves a cross-section of the community to dance films, installations and texts. Her work is characterized by an interest in voicing people’s lived-experiences in Places through creative moving portraiture. A key aspect of her process is the artistry of opening creative practices to everyone from ballerinas to women in low wage employment to performance for young audiences. Adesola is a Research Fellow with Theatrum Mundi, visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and Research Affiliate and visiting artist at MIT.
Not to worry if you can’t make it to the live event. The video will be available on our instagram. #BFADanceDialogues
Go to see the exhibition How We Live Now: Reimagining Spaces with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative at the Barbican Centre. Catch BFA’s contribution to the section on contemporary responses to the topic.
This is a performance not to be missed. You will see nine BFA members and aspiring industry professionals in THE PAST IS A COMMON HISTORY performing an alternative history that champions the making of a diverse public realm via an investigation of the Royal Academy of Arts and its setting.
Looking to change careers? Want to know what else you can do with your built environment degree? Join us for a digital event on September 26th at 11am GMT+1 to receive useful advice, tips & tricks from our esteemed BFA Hosts on several alternative careers such as: Academia, Curating, Gaming, Planning & Project Management.
Are you a student or recent graduate in need of extra support and advice? Join us for an IGTV Live Event on July 30th at lunch and evening to receive useful tips & tricks from our esteemed BFA Professional Members on topics such as: Professional - CV & Skills and Design & Technical.
Are you a student or recent graduate in need of extra support and advice? Join us for an IGTV Live Event on July 23rd at lunch and evening to receive useful tips & tricks from our esteemed BFA Professional Members on topics such as: Presentation, Portfolio & Final Drawings, and Design Process.
We’d like to invite you to our second edition of the BFA Session on Decolonise Architecture: Diversifying the Profession to look back at your experiences within architecture practice to understand their significance on how our built environment is shaped today.
BFA Bookclubs are a social event bringing together BFA members and friends to discuss books, articles, and readings that highlight issues relating to social justice, diversity, inclusion, and black womanhood in connection to architecture and the built environment.
Join us for our second Unwind with BFA, an informal, social and digital BFA space for members to spend time with each other, play and discuss anything that we’d like!
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