Bandiwhilila is a cultural and spatial archive. It is a space for thinking through place, memory, heritage and the ways we make and inhabit space.
Essays, research, poetry and spatial thought retained from the original Bandiwhilila archive and presented as a cultural publication.
An excerpt from the thesis “African Space[Time]: a paradox to Spacetime Compression”. Space as temporal, kinetic, ephemeral, ritual.
In this think piece I propose the temporal dimension as a paradigm shift, a nudge towards a contemporary architecture that is capable of reflecting our context and the nuances of our identity.
READ ORIGINAL ↗An excerpt from the thesis “African Space[Time]: a paradox to Spacetime Compression”. Space as temporal, kinetic, ephemeral, ritual.
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An image-led meditation on bureaucracy, spacetime and social production.
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A ritualistic meditation on ubuntu, memory, intergenerational knowledge and African worldviews.
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A poem about colourism, self-worth, beauty and the politics of blackness.
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A meditation on Rwanda, memory, violence, spatial permanence and the difficulty of narrating complex histories.
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An exploration of individual, collective, rational, perceptual and African understandings of time.
READ ORIGINAL ↗This is an evolving archive of thought, practice and memory.