Occupying Africa: Prototyping a Transformal Makerspace Network

Experimenting with the varied contexts of work, living, education and making/producing throughout Africa, DK Osseo‐Asare and Yasmine Abbas – both members of the Architecture and Engineering Design Faculty at Pennsylvania State University – have co‐founded and developed the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Pl...

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Published in:Architectural design 2021-09, Vol.91 (5), p.62-69
Main Authors: Osseo‐Asare, DK, Abbas, Yasmine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accra
Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP)
Agbogbloshie scrapyard
Architecture
Benin
Business networking
Côte d'Ivoire
Dakar
Design engineering
digital fabrication tools
Europe
fufuzela
Germany
Ghana
hybrid physical‐digital platform
kiosk culture
Kiosks
Low Design Office (LowDO)
Makerspaces
Mauritania
Nigeria
Old Fadama community
Panurban
Paris
Prototyping
Rahul Mehrotra
Rockefeller Foundation
Senegal
Skill development
the world's largest e‐waste dump
Timber Market
United Nations
Yona Friedman
‘spacecrafting’ Afronautics
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Summary:Experimenting with the varied contexts of work, living, education and making/producing throughout Africa, DK Osseo‐Asare and Yasmine Abbas – both members of the Architecture and Engineering Design Faculty at Pennsylvania State University – have co‐founded and developed the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP). They outline the background and functioning of this enabling system that encourages participants to use the low‐tech resources around them to build their skills and change their environments.
ISSN:0003-8504
1554-2769
DOI:10.1002/ad.2733