UNSETTLED IN DAKAR: Architectural Modernity in 20th Century Senegal

This symposium on architecture and urban planning in Twentieth-Century Senegal spotlights new research on how the built environment in and around Dakar registered the continuities and ruptures between French rule and independence, indigenous heritage and colonial legacies. What role did the built environment play in constructing citizenship? What opportunities did Senegal’s independence usher in for French and African designers? What effect did Léopold Sédar Senghor’s emphasis on the arts as a path to Négritude have on architectural production and training? Each panel will address one architectural scale: urban, housing, and monumental. Speakers include: Steven Nelson (UCLA); Nzinga Mboup (Worofilia); Ralph Ghoche (Barnard); Lucia Allais (Columbia); Gregory Valdespino (University of Iowa); Mamadou Diouf (Columbia); Martino Stierli (MoMA); Jana Ndiaye Berankova (Suture Press); Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia); Frederick Cooper (NYU).

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