In Architecture School, did you feel encouraged to bring your culture and identity to your design projects? How did and does that affect the way you practice now?
BFA are taking part in the Architecture Foundation’s 100 Day Studio digital event series, a daily diet of online lectures, interviews, building tours and panel discussions - all live and all free.
BFA Co-founder Neba Sere and BFA Member Umi Baden-Powell have a shared passion for championing diversity & inclusion within the profession through enabling voices from the African & Caribbean diaspora and BAME communities to shape and interrogate education, practice and the built environment itself.
They have teamed up to host the event where they'll discuss the importance of decolonising education for architecture, laying the foundations within higher education and the curriculum at Universities.
Neba and Umi are joined by Architectural Designer & Educator Nana Biamah-Ofosu @biamah.ofosu, Architect in practice & Teacher Shahed Saleem @shahed.saleem, Product Design & Architecture Teacher Neil Pinder @homegrownplus and Architect, Tutor & Examiner Sanaa Shaikh to share their thoughts, provocations and comments.
The audience is then invited to look back at their experiences within architecture education and join the discussion.
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BFA Sessions are an opportunity for friends of BFA and BFA members alike to come together in an intimate setting to share their personal experiences with each other. Revolving around a specific topic, we’re all encouraged to speak out about the things that are normally hard to speak about, coming to the conclusion that personal experiences are often shared experiences.