International Womxn’s Week includes a weeklong series of events organized by Womxn in Design that gather members of the GSD community to learn about and challenge notions of gender and power from within the framework of design.
Join us for a dialogue between Princess Adedoyin Talabi Faniyi of the Osun Sacred Grove in Osogbo, Nigeria, and landscape architect Tarna Klitzner, founder of TKLA in Cape Town, South Africa. The conversation will be moderated by Zoe Marks, Director of the Harvard Center for African Studies.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for African Studies and organized in coordination with Womxn in Design and Africa GSD. It serves as the keynote event for the conference African Landscape Architectures: Alternative Futures for the Field, which brings together a wide range of landscape practices from across the continent. The two-day hybrid conference highlights the transformative potential of decolonizing design to address social injustices and prepare African cities for the impacts of climate change. Speakers will explore innovative strategies through frameworks such as ecology, adaptation, and materiality that offer alternative futures for African landscapes.
Speakers:
Princess Adedoyin Talabi Faniyi (Osogbo, Nigeria) is an Orisha high priestess and the daughter of Chief Susanne Wenger. Princess Adedoyin is a key volunteer of The Adunni Olorisha Trust working to protect the Sacred Groves of Osogbo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Tarna Klitzner established Tarna Klitzner Landscape Architects (TKLA) in 1995 and serves as a full-time lecturer at the University of Cape Town in the Landscape Architecture, Architecture and Planning Department. TKLA’s scope of works includes both public and private projects. The office ethos is rooted in providing environments that are conceptualized within an understanding of the given natural/urban and social environments and endeavor to provide spaces for human interaction that encourage positive engagement within communities and with the broader context of our cities, towns, and natural landscapes. TKLA has received several awards from the ILASA for their projects and were part of the Eliot Ngxola Architects team placed in the top 10 of the Commonwealth War Graves Memorial 2022 competition in Cape Town.
0:00 Welcome by Afomia Hunde
04:50 Introduction by Gareth Doherty
13:10 Keynote Address by Tarna Klitzner
39:25 Video
45:23 Keynote Address by Princess Adedoyin Talabi Faniyi
58:31 Discussion and Q+A
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