INVITE: Hood Futures
Infrastructuring as Narrative Reclamation, Service and Self-Determination
Public session
Jan 30th | 12:00-13:30 GMT | Online
Amahra Spence will be in conversation with Nabil Al-Kinani of Hood Futurist Association. More details to follow.
Speakers
Nabil Al-Kinani
Nabil is a British-Iraqi built-environment professional and writer raised in Wembley, he possesses a keen interest in urbanism, placemaking, sustainable development, place vision and spatial politics. His writing largely draws focus on the relationship between spaces and stories. Addressing questions such as: Who designs space? Who has access to newly-created space? What’s the cultural impact of these newly-created spaces? Who are new spaces being built for? Who is affected by newly-created space? What are the narratives that must be preserved when new spaces are being created? His works include: Authors of the Estate, Privatise the Mandem, Naming Pains and Pipe Dreams.
Amahra Spence
Amahra is a cultural worker and spatial practitioner, exploring transformation in the context of liberation. Guided by lineages of Black imagination, spatial justice and a more-than-human cosmology, Amahra is particularly interested in how transformation is practiced through narrative, design, space, systems, strategy and governance. Amahra is the Founding Director of MAIA, an organisation that works with artists to collectively worldbuild and rehearse liberation into being. MAIA prototype life-affirming infrastructures across three mission strands: ‘Sites of Imagination’, ‘Resourcing the Movement’ and ‘Culture x Liberation’. She is also Organiser for the Black Land and Spatial Justice Project, and currently Visiting Lecturer at Birmingham City University, exploring ‘Architectures of Abolition’ with architecture and design students.