Olalekan Jeyifous: Utopia as Method, Speculation as Architecture

Brooklyn-based architect and artist Olalekan Jeyifous uses speculative design not to solve problems but to reframe them — imagining dense Afrofuturist cities, community microclimates, and informal megastructures as counterfactuals that reveal the contingencies of the world as it is. Projects like ‘Nairobi 2081 A.D.’ and ‘Bodega Ecohaven’ center informal architecture as a site of innovation, challenging Western technocratic visions of progress with futures rooted in cultural specificity and community resilience. Source: Designboom

Lots of fun thought provoking work to respond to.

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