Date:
Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location:
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)
Lagos-based Nigerian architect, designer, and curator of the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial – Tosin Oshinowo is renowned for insights into socially-responsive approaches to urbanism and design. In her talk for GSD, she will address the importance of considering context in design and embracing local solutions, which have roots in often overlooked techniques and traditions that have been with us for centuries. She questions how these techniques and ways of understanding the world from the global south can lend themselves as solutions to the global challenges posed by resource extraction and climate change.