Workshop: Building Reality

This workshop will seek to combine the aspirational aesthetic qualities of Western construction with the practical, culturally relevant qualities of traditional methods and materials of Africa. Students will be part of an exchange of knowledge, by living and working in a community very different from their own. Learning will take place through building together, finding local materials, assessing their quality and suitability, learning how to use and protect them, and finding ways of turning raw materials, such as local wood and clay, into high quality building elements. To attend the workshop it is mandatory to have attended the course "Introduction to the African continent: construction and urban dynamics"